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- ↑ "The History of Thames Valley Police" (PDF). Thamesvalley.police.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ Clark, Peter (2016), Police and Constabulary of England and Wales (eighteenth century to 2016), Amazon Kindle, p. 21206