• Nottingham City Police, originally founded as the Borough of Nottingham Police, was a UK police force created under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835...
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    visible police presence at times when this was deemed particularly needed. Chief Constable Captain Athelstan Popkess of the Nottingham City Police is credited...
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    Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police received a request to attend at 04:05. An anonymous eyewitness told police that he had seen the...
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    Nottinghamshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the shire county of Nottinghamshire and the unitary authority of Nottingham in the...
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    developed because of the foresight of Nottingham City Police Chief Constable Captain Athelstan Popkess. The city was divided into zones, controlled by...
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    communication between police command and police cars. Under Popkess, the Nottingham City Police began to use police cars as an asset that police tactics centered...
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    radios to deploy mobile police patrol cars remotely, and receive updates from them in return. Popkess and the Nottingham City Police would expand this pioneering...
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    system. In the United Kingdom, police radios were pioneered largely by Captain Athelstan Popkess of the Nottingham City Police in the early 1930s, with trials...
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    Nottingham (/ˈnɒtɪŋəm/ NOT-ing-əm, locally /ˈnɒtnʊm/) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located 110...
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  • Athelstan Popkess (category Nottingham)
    was Chief Constable of Nottingham City Police from 1930 to 1959 and as a result of his transformations in modernising policing could be considered the...
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