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Wallingford Borough Police

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Wallingford Borough Police was the police force responsible for policing the borough of Wallingford in Berkshire, England until 1856.[1]

It had been established in 1836 as a result of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. Wallingford Borough Police was amalgamated into Berkshire Constabulary on 8 September 1856, when the borough authorities voluntarily agreed to let Berkshire Constabulary police the borough. The three serving constables of the borough force at that time were discharged.[2]

Wallingford is today policed by the successor to Berkshire Constabulary, Thames Valley Police.

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  1. ^ "The History of Thames Valley Police" (PDF). Thamesvalley.police.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  2. ^ Clark, Peter (2016), Police and Constabulary of England and Wales (eighteenth century to 2016), Amazon Kindle, p. 21206