Wolverhampton Borough Police
Wolverhampton Borough Police was a police service in the Borough of Wolverhampton from 1837–1966, when it was merged with Walsall Borough Police and Dudley Borough Police into the West Midlands Constabulary.
The town's commissioners approved the formation of the police force on 3 August 1837. The original Superintendent was Richard Castle, who was appointed with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police, with a salary of five shillings and six pence per day. The force originally consisted of one sergeant and five police constables and was based in the old Town Hall, Garrick Street.
By the early 1900's officer numbers had increased to 109 men. The first female officers were employed in 1937 and were immediately attached to the Criminal Investigation Department. Numbers were increased once more following World War Two, with 215 men and 8 women being in post to meet the increased demand for policing.
The force continued to grow in size, with more than 300 police officers employed by the 1960's. Following a Royal Commission on the police in 1960, a number of similarly sized local forces merged to become the West Midlands Constabulary in 1966.[1]
Chief Constables
- 1837-1842 - Richard Castle
- 1848-1857 - Lt. Col. Gilbert Hogg
- 1857-1878 - Capt. Henry Sergrave
- 1878-1891 - Major Robert David Dewar Hay
- 1891-1916 - Capt. Lindsay Robert Burnett
- 1916-1929 - David Webster
- 1930-1943 - Edwin Tilley
- 1944-1966 - Norman W. Goodchild[1]
References
- ^ a b "Wolverhampton Borough Police". West Midlands Police. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
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