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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.
1943 – Winchester City Police and Isle of Wight Constabulary forced to amalgamate with Hampshire as a war time measure. The amalgamation became permanent in 1947. [20] 1944 – Women Inspector appointed: Miss P Yates. [21] 1957 – On 1 April, the name of the force changed from Hampshire Constabulary to Hampshire and Isle of Wight ...
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 ...
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 ]
Military history of the Isle of Wight (3 C, 5 P) ... Isle of Wight Constabulary; Isle of Wight Festival 1970; Isle of Wight Rural District; J. Rowland Jones (golfer) K.
The Isle of Wight was historically part of Hampshire. It became an administrative county in 1890, and a ceremonial county in 1974 when it gained its own Lord Lieutenant . Previous plans in Hampshire have included a Solent Combined Authority in South Hampshire (potentially alongside the Isle of Wight) and a "Heart of Hampshire" deal including ...
A man in his 40s has died after his car plunged into the sea in a village on the Isle of Wight, with the police launching an investigation.. Emergency services were alerted to the incident ...
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.