By Frank Palmer Rye Borough Police Force came into being in 1838, two years after Hastings and nine years after the Metropolitan Police.
Tag: East Sussex Constabulary
East Sussex Constabulary provides the setting for this group of Rye’s Own articles, where buildings, people and events meet in the magazine’s record of the district. Readers can move between “Rye Borough Police” and “Down Rye Way – Tom Upton”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine.
Down Rye Way – Tom Upton
Tom Upton On many hot summer evenings Special Police Sergeant Tom Upton does traffic duty in Rye keeping the flow of traffic passing smoothly through the town from the seaside beaches of Camber and Winchelsea Beach. To see Tom Upton in action, competently marshalling the hundreds of cars, its difficult to believe that this upright, … Continue reading Down Rye Way – Tom Upton