A
Brief History of the Mid-Anglia Constabulary
The
Mid-Anglia Constabulary was the territorial
police force responsible for law enforcement in
the East of England. The Constabulary was short
lived lasting from 1965 to 1974. It was created
from the amalgamation of five different forces in
the area.
On
1 April 1965 the Cambridgeshire Constabulary
amalgamated with the Cambridge City Police, the
Isle of Ely Constabulary, the Huntingdonshire
Constabulary, and the Peterborough Combined
Police (which itself was created in 1947 from a
merger of the Liberty of Peterborough
Constabulary and the Peterborough City Police) to
form the Mid-Anglia Constabulary, with the same
boundaries as the current force.
This
force initially had an establishment of 805 and
an actual strength of 728. The Chief Constable
for this new force was Mr Frederick Drayton
Porter OBE, QPM (who was formerly the Chief
Constable of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
Cambridge City Police).
The
force was renamed the Cambridgeshire Constabulary
in 1974, when the new non-metropolitan county of
Cambridgeshire was created by the Local
Government Act of 1972 with identical boundaries
to the Mid-Anglia Constabulary area.
Ford Anglia's as
used by the Mid-Anglia
Constabulary
I do not have that much
information about the Anglia’s used by the
Mid-Anglia Constabulary.
All I have seen so far is a single photograph of
an Anglia Estate on a Classic Police Facebook
Group.
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