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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=April 2022}} '''Berkshire Constabulary''' is a former [[Home Office]] police force which was responsible for policing the [[county]] of [[Berkshire]] in [[Southern England]]. Berkshire Constabulary was merged with ~~several~~four other adjacent police forces in 1968 to form the Thames Valley Constabulary, later known as [[Thames Valley Police]]. Formed in 1856, the Constabulary was headquartered near [[Forbury Gardens]] in [[Reading, Berkshire\|Reading]], until it moved in 1952 to [[Sulhamstead]] House (then called the "White House"), purchased by the Berkshire ~~Country~~County Council five years earlier for £53,000. The house is currently the Thames Valley Police Training College and [[Thames Valley Police Museum]]. Berkshire ~~was~~Constabulary ~~amalgamated with~~subsumed several ~~other~~smaller ~~smaller~~police forces during its existence, including the [[Abingdon Borough Police]], [[Maidenhead Borough ~~Council~~Police]], [[Newbury Borough Police]], [[Wallingford Borough Police]] and [[Wantage Borough Police]]. The [[Windsor Borough Police]] remained an independent force~~, due to the Royal presence at [[Windsor Castle]],~~ until ~~it merged with Berkshire~~ in 1947. In 1965, Berkshire Constabulary had an establishment of 603 and an actual strength of 480.<ref>''The Thin Blue Line'', Police Council for Great Britain Staff Side Claim for Undermanning Supplements, 1965</ref> On 1 April 1, 1968, Thames Valley ~~Police~~Constabulary was formed by amalgamating Berkshire Constabulary with [[Buckinghamshire Constabulary]], the [[Oxford City Police]], the [[Oxfordshire Constabulary]] and the [[Reading Borough Police]]. ==Chief Constables== 1856–1863 : Colonel [[James Fraser (police officer)\|James Fraser]] 1863–1902 : Colonel Adam Blandy 1902–1932 : Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Faulconer Poulton<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Court Circular \|date=1 September 1902 \|page=8 \|issue=36861}}</ref> 1932–1953 : [[Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth]] 1954–1958 : [[John Waldron (police officer)\|John Lovegrove Waldron]] 1958–1968 : Thomas Charles Birkett Hodgson<ref>''Daily Telegraph Reporter''. "Chosen from 59 Applicants." ''Daily Telegraph'', 26 Nov. 1958, p. 14. The Telegraph Historical Archive, https://link-gale-com.rp.nla.gov.au/apps/doc/IO0702472343/GDCS?u=nla&sid=GDCS&xid=b9a44361. Accessed 2 Dec. 2019.</ref> (later Chief Constable of the Thames Valley Police) ''1968 : Merged with other forces to form [[Thames Valley Police]]'' ==See also== [[List of defunct law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom]] ==References== ~~===Specific===~~ {{Reflist}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20061230045819/http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news_info/info/museum/pre-history.htm A pre-history of Thames Valley Police], [[Thames Valley Police]]▼ [[Category:Defunct police forces of ~~the United Kingdom~~England]]▼ ~~===General===~~ ▲*[http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news_info/info/museum/pre-history.htm A pre-history of Thames Valley Police], [[Thames Valley Police]] ▲[[Category:Defunct police forces of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:History of Berkshire\|Constabulary]] [[Category:Organisations based in Berkshire\|Constabulary]] [[Category:1856 establishments in England]] [[Category:1968 disestablishments in England]]