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At that time there were 79 police officers in the Isle of Wight Constabulary. [2] With the Police Act 1946 in 1948 the Isle of Wight Constabulary was absorbed into the Hampshire Constabulary to become the Hampshire Joint Police Force, so once again policing of the island was by Hampshire even though the Isle of Wight remained an independent county.
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in South East England. [ 6 ] The force area includes Southampton , the largest city in South East England , and the naval city of Portsmouth . [ 6 ]
The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]
The Isle of Wight Militia (IoWM) was an auxiliary military force on the Isle of Wight off the South Coast of England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until their final service as coastal artillery, the Militia regiments of the island served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1909.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a cordon was set up while the unexploded ordnance, which was described by the Royal Navy as a "small World War Two incendiary", was safely removed.
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner, previously Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner, is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary in the English counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The post was created ...
Pages in category "History of the Isle of Wight" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Isle of Wight Constabulary;
Headquarters of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service and Hampshire Constabulary in Eastleigh. Since December 2014, the fire services of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been working together to enable both services to meet their objectives in an environment of reduced budgets.