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However, as the number of court cases in Southend grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse. Southend Corporation planned a new a Civic Centre which would encompass a new police station, the courthouse, council offices and chamber, a new College and a Library on a site first purchased by the council in 1919 for a further ...
Essex Police is a territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Essex, in the East of England. Essex Police is responsible for a population of over 1.8 million people and an area of 1,420 square miles (3,700 km 2). The chief constable is Ben-Julian Harrington, [4] who took up the appointment in October 2018.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Constabulary was created on 1 April 1914, split off from Essex Constabulary, controlled by Southend Corporation. [17] The first Chief Constable was Henry Maurice Kerskake who had previously held the same role at Dewsbury Bourough Police. [ 18 ]
Territorial police force Essex Police: County of Essex and unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock: 3,678 [1] £320.2 [2] 3,670: 1969 East of England: England and Wales: Territorial police force Gloucestershire Constabulary: County of Gloucestershire: 1,279 [1] £126.9 [2] 3,150: 1839 South West England: England and Wales ...
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James Canham Read (1855–1894) was a British bigamist and murderer known as the Southend Murderer or Prittlewell Murderer. The entire affair and aftermath is sometimes called the Southend Mystery . Friends (and lovers) called him Jimmy Read , however, he used multiple names to disguise his several relationships, and fabricated other false ...
The parish was thereafter an urban parish and so had no parish council of its own, being administered directly by Southend-on-Sea Corporation. In 1911 the parish had a population of 3,954. [ 5 ] On 9 November 1913 the parishes within the borough were all abolished to form a single parish covering the same area as the borough.
The Home was largely funded by the Metropolitan and City Police Convalescent Home Fund, some of whose records between 1902 and 1917 are held in the National Archives as MEPO 2/1723 [3] The new building was designed by local architect John George Gibbens, with the foundation stone laid on 29 October 1892 by Princess Christian and opened by the ...