Unlike a police constable, a PCSO only has powers when on duty and in uniform, and within the area policed by their respective force.

In Raleigh, Jacob Johnson became town constable, married and started a family.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

They are jailed by a befuddled town constable, Constable Slocum ( Walter Catlett ) for breaking into the house of Dr. Fritz Lehman ( Fritz Feld ).

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

Meanwhile, Theophilus Crowe, the town constable, investigates a strange suicide, the activities of his corrupt boss, and his adversely affected marijuana habit.

Townspeople, with the complicity of the town constable, broke into the local jail where Stuart was being held, beat Stuart and started a fire.

The Village of Auburn was incorporated in 1849, divided into wards, and governed under a town board and constable.

So the town voted to simply close the church, and it stationed a constable at the door to bar the offending reverend.

Elected officers were Moses Bascom Jr. as town clerk and treasurer, Moses Bascom, William Smalley and Noah Munn as selectmen and assessors, and David Squires as constable.

Its first officers were James Ball ( town clerk ), Moses Evans, Jeduthan Morse, James Ball ( selectman and assessors ), Amzi Doolittle ( treasurer ), Samuel Ball ( constable ), and James Ball ( collector ).

A second, larger-scale protest took place in the central Massachusetts town of Uxbridge, in Worcester County, on Feb. 3, 1783, when a mob seized property that had been confiscated by a local constable and returned it to its owners.

When the rebels reached the town lock-up ( in an effort to rescue the prisoners ), they encountered constable Michael Melvin and in the ensuing scuffle broke his leg.

The Tunstall-McSween faction organized their own posse of armed men, known as the Regulators, to defend their position, and had their own lawman, town constable Richard M. Brewer.

Under the Duke of York's government the constable was elected from one of four overseers of the town or parish.

Effective July 1, 2010 Town Clerks must certify constables are duly elected or appointed and the town has not voted to limit the constable ’ s authority to engage in enforcement activities.

The castle's constable was, by a royal charter of 1284, also the mayor of the new town of Conwy, and oversaw a castle garrison of 30 soldiers, including 15 crossbowmen, supported by a carpenter, chaplain, blacksmith, engineer and a stonemason.

At the beginning of 1583, Stanley was sent back to Ireland to deal with the rebel Geraldines of Desmond, and was appointed by the Earl of Ormond as commander of the garrison at Lismore ; he was also constable of Castlemaine, which he intended to " make a town of English ".

Victoria Crosses were awarded to two soldiers from the town, Hugh Colvin and Thomas Whitham, along with a third to resident ( and only son of the chief constable ) Alfred Victor Smith.

1 and 4, it was provided that anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff.

At 21, Lincoln became the town constable and in 1755, he joined the 3rd Regiment of the Suffolk County militia as an adjutant.

His business success in Vanderbilt did not match his success in politics, and he lost the election for town constable in 1894.

As town constable he expanded the Gravesend police force considerably and could often be found patrolling the beaches himself armed with a pistol and an oversized billy club, ( neither of which he was shy about using ).

In Bonanza, Colorado he avoided a lynch mob after shooting and killing a town constable.

Prison Officers have the power of a constable when on duty, although this is rarely used.

In Arkansas, constable is an elected office at the township level, although constables are considered county officers.

Some voting wards that are in large towns have a marshal instead of a constable, and these marshals serve the same role as a constable, although marshals are generally more pro-active in law enforcement matters.

In relation to the enforcement of criminal laws, although not the usual function, it is important to know constable ’ s have the same rights of arrest as do police officers ”.

Most PCSOs tend to wear blue epaulettes on their shoulders although some forces use black epaulettes, like those of a constable.

He was also responsible for leading the kingdom into battle, although this duty could be passed to a constable.

It is referred to that Davies testified against a corrupt fellow officer in the past and was reduced to the lowest rank of constable as a result, although this was never shown in the series.

The rank of deputy chief constable was abolished on 1 April 1995 following recommendations made in the Sheehy Report, except for officers already holding the rank, although most forces continued to designate one of the ACCs as " designated deputy " to the chief constable.

Section 3 ( 6 ) provided that a constable could arrest without warrant anyone he reasonably suspected to be committing affray.

Under the Act, a person who is not a police constable may, without warrant, arrest another person if they believe on reasonable grounds that:

It was only in 2004 that the Western Australian parliament repealed the quaint provisions of the former section 47 of the Police Act 1892 which allowed any person to arrest without a warrant " any reputed common prostitute, thief, loose, idle or disorderly person, who, within view of such person apprehending, shall offend against this Act, and shall forthwith deliver him to any constable or police officer of the place where he shall have been apprehended, to be taken and conveyed before a Justice, to be dealt with according to law …" A private citizen would have found it rather difficult to interpret the terms " loose " or " idle " with any degree of legal certainty.

I, ________________, having been appointed a constable to act upon and along the lines of _________ Railway under the provisions of the Canada Transportation Act do swear that I am a Canadian citizen ; that I will well and truly serve the legally constituted authorities in the said office as constable without favor or affection, malice or ill-will ; that I will do the best of my power cause the peace to be kept and prevent all offences against the peace ; and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge the duties thereof faithfully, according to Law.

The favour shown him by Marlborough did not deter Rivers from paying court to the Tories when it became evident that the Whig ascendancy was waning, and his appointment as constable of the Tower in 1710 on the recommendation of Harley and without Marlborough's knowledge was the first unmistakable intimation to the Whigs of their impending fall.

A constable may arrest any person, without warrant, who commits a breach of the peace.

Special constabulary epaulettes frequently bear the letters " SC " ( with or without a crown above ) to differentiate them from regular officers, however with some forces, such as the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, British Transport Police, Hampshire Constabulary, Northamptonshire Police, Nottinghamshire Police, Lancashire Constabulary and Cheshire Constabulary, only the collar number designates them as a special constable.

Section 76 ( b ) of the Crimes Act 1961 provides that any person who " knowing that a person is about to commit treason, fails without reasonable excuse to inform a constable as soon as possible or to use other reasonable efforts to prevent its commission " is guilty of an offence.

These instructions are still the basis of the powers of a British police constable, and made it clear that police officers did ( and do ) not have carte blanche to give orders to private citizens without a warrant from a magistrate.