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PLYMOUTH POLICE OFFICERS The following names and details of officers serving in the Plymouth Borough Police, the Devonport Borough Police and the City of Plymouth Constabulary have been extracted from the Plymouth and Devonport Watch Committee Minutes in the course of more general research. It is not exhaustive and is published on the web for its limited use. The number in brackets after the name is the person's police number.
PC Charles
Clarence Avery (208) - transferred to Gloucester 8/11/1954. PC George
Edmond Bell - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 PS William Body
- continued beyond retirement 5/1915. ?? Hazel Mary
Bossom - ceased service 3/1/1955. PC Cedric
Bowden (165) - promoted to PS 11/11/1954. PC John
Northcote Brewer - appointed on probation 28/5/1956. PC Richard
Cornelius Brown (327) - appointed on probation 1/11/1954; confirmed as PC 31/10/1956. PC Claude
Bryant - resigned 11/7/1954. PC Gilbert John
Bryant - appointed on probation 28/12/1954. PC William
Charles Champion (285) - promoted to PS 9/8/1954. PC Albert
Chapman (329) - appointed on probation 4/11/1954; confirmed as PC 3/11/1956. PC Kenneth Roy
Chappell - appointed on probation 30/7/1956. PS Arthur
Wilfred Charles - promoted to Inspector 14/6/1954. Chief Inspector
Charles Clifford Clingan - promoted to Superintendent (II) 31/12/1956. PS Arther
Edward Collier - retired by [15/9/1954]; died 28/7/1956. PC Walter
Collings (78) - continued beyond retirement 5/1915. PC David George
Collins - appointed on probation 25/6/1956. PC Richard
Terence Cook (63) - appointed on probation 3/5/1954; confirmed as PC 2/5/1956. PC H R Colwill
(175) - injured on duty 7/6/1929. PC David George
Cox (131) - appointed on probation 3/5/1954; confirmed as PC 2/5/1956. PC Alfred
Desmond Damiel - appointed on probation 28/12/1954. PC James Graham
Douglas (186) - promoted to PS 17/1/1955. PC Brian
Downing - appointed on probation 23/4/1956. PC Roy Wilfred
Drake (141) - appointed on probation 24/5/1954; confirmed as PC 23/5/1956. ?? John Charles
Dugdale - ceased service 20/3/1955. Superintendent
William Dustow - retired 30/12/1956. ?? Eric Pascoe
Edwards - ceased service 24/1/1955. PC Spencer
George Fellowes - retired 5/9/1954. PC Alan Hooper
Fleet - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 PC Terence Stanley Ford - appointed on probation 28/2/1955. PC Derek Ronald
Friend (166) - appointed on probation 21/6/1954; confirmed as PC 20/6/1956. PC David James
Leigh Gabbitas - appointed on probation 23/4/1956. PC Norman
Frederick George - appointed on probation 28/2/1955. PC Andrew Gow -
appointed on probation 27/8/1956. PC Charles
Grant - retired 28/12/1921; died 29/11/1924. ?? Leslie
Richard Newton Gray - ceased to serve 6/9/1954. ?? Reginald
Greenacre - ceased to serve 2/8/1954. PS Edgar
Gullett - resigned 8/8/1954. Insp John
Gulley - widow died 9/1956. PC S Guscott
(54) - commended for prompt action in dealing with a fire in Marlborough Street on
21/10/1924. WPC Edna
Hainsworth - transferred from Nottinghamshire 31/12/1956. PC Terence Charles Frederick Harrison - appointed on probation 25/6/1956. PC W Heath (26) - mentioned 1917. PC Owen Henwood
- resigned 18/7/1954. PC Frank
Herbert (98) - promoted to Temporary PS 14/10/1954 PC Derrick
Samuel Hill (54) - confirmed as PC 12/4/1955. PC David Hooper
(330) - appointed on probation 29/11/1954; confirmed as PC 28/11/1956. PC David
Stanley John Hussey (264) - confirmed as PC 1/2/1955. PC Michael Ronald James - appointed on probation 1/11/1954 PC W P Jeffery
(10) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. WPC Muriel
Edith Jewell - ceased service 1/1/1957. PC Alan Herbert
Jones - appointed on probation 28/5/1956. PC Ernest
Frederick Jones - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 ?? Eric Charles Keane - transferred from Metropolitan Police 20/12/1954. PC Thomas King (11) - due to retire 1917 but was still fit so retained. PC Leslie
Richard Mile Kinchin - appointed on probation 30/7/1956. PC Mervyn Peter
King - appointed on probation 31/1/1955. PC Alan Lane
(331) - appointed on probation 29/11/1954; confirmed as PC 28/11/1956. PC James John
Henry Laurie - appointed on probation 30/7/1956. PC Trevor Frederick John Luxton - transferred from Metropolitan Police 25/10/1954. PC Samuel Lyle
(20) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. PC Charles David McKenzie - appointed on probation 28/3/1955. PC J Mann (21)
- due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. PC Peter John
Marsh - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 PC Robert
Stanley Miles - appointed on probation 9/8/1954. PC Keith Miller
OR Milten (?) - appointed on probation 28/2/1955. PS Reginald
Miller - died 9/9/1956. PC Ian Anthony Moore (191) - appointed on probation 6/9/1954; confirmed as PC 5/9/1956. PC Robert Morgan (12) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. Insp R N Moules - returned from Police College 17/6/1956. DS W Mutton - mentioned 1917. PC Edward John
Newman - confirmed as PC 26/7/1954. PC Leonard George Nowland (305) - transferred to Preston 22/6/1954. PC F Osborne (24) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. PC Thomas Henry
Osborne (92) - promoted to Temporary PS 13/12/1956. PC Leonard
William Robert Page (268) - promoted to PS 31/12/1956. PS John Francis
Charles Parish (45) - promoted to Inspector 16/12/1954. PC Charles
Desmond Parker - appointed on probation 9/7/1956. PS George John
Royce Pearce (30) - promoted to Insp 31/12/1956. Insp Stanley
Norman Sydney Pearce - promoted to Chief Inspector 31/12/1956. PC Rowland
Edward Pearne (122) - promoted to PS 13/1/1955. PC Edward
Thomas Pendrey (83) - continued beyond retirement 12/1924. PC Gerald
Francis Pennington (164) - appointed on probation 24/5/1954; confirmed as PC 23/5/1956. PS Stanley
James Perkins - resigned 8/8/1954. PS J C M Pill -
passing reference 10/1954 Ins Harold
Charles Poole - retired 16/1/1955. PC W L Pope -
retired 21/2/1923; died 9/4/1928. PC James Edward
Raven - appointed on probation 28/12/1954. PC Cyril Edwin
John Redman (113) - retired 16/1/1955. PC Bernard
James Rendle (320) - confirmed as PC 22/3/1955. PC James Edward
Barham Reynolds - appointed on probation 28/3/1955. PC Ralph Colin
Richards - appointed on probation 28/5/1956. PC Kenneth
William Riggs - appointed on probation 31/1/1955. PC Malcolm
Leslie Rymer Rose - appointed on probation 6/9/1954. PC Geoffrey
Hugh Rowe - appointed on probation 21/6/1954; ceased service 15/11/1954; appointed on
probation 14/2/1955. PC
Reginald William Sandover (237) - deceased by [7/7/1954]. PC William Thomas Sandover, of Cornwood, Devon, a cousin of the above, was injured on April 29th 1941 at Fort Austin Avenue, Crownhill, where he lived, and died at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Greenbank, Plymouth, on May 1st 1941. He was 28 years old and stationed at the Crownhill Police Station at the time. PS William
Francis Saunders (37) - promoted to Inspector 17/1/1955. PS P J Sharpe -
seconded to Cyprus [by 11/1956]. ?? John William
Smith - ceased service 5/4/1955. PC Peter
Michael Thorpe-Tracey (290) - confirmed as PC 21/12/1954; transferred to Metropolitan
Police 13/8/1956. PC Robert
William Townsend - appointed on probation 6/9/1954. PC F C M
Tremlett (297) - Disabled, ceased service 17/2/1955 PC E H A Trevena (284) - reference to sick leave 10/1954 PC Joseph Trevithick (22) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. PC William John
Philip Tucker - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 WPC Iris Vosper
- confirmed as PC 28/9/1954 PC Kenneth
Stanley Watson (285) - promoted to PS 9/8/1954. PC Maurice
Alfred Webster - appointed on probation 31/1/1955. PC Albert
Thomas Wellington - appointed on probation 28/12/1954. PC William
James Westington - confirmed as PC 21/9/1954 WPC Pamela
Christine Whitford - appointed on probation 12/4/1955. PC Charles Willcocks (79) - continued beyond retirement 5/1915. PC Ernest Willcocks (23) - due to retire 1917 but still fit so retained. PC F J Williams
- died 17/9/1956. PC Richard John
Williams (84) - confirmed as PC 12/4/1955. PI Sidney
Charles Voden Williams - resigned 22/8/1954. PS Richard
Joseph Smale Willis (3) - promoted to Temporary Inspector 14/10/1954 GO TO PAGE 6 - Beat Reminiscences
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