A constable is, however, a public peace officer and requires a bond as condition for faithful performance of their duties, and M. G. L.

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.

Chief Inspector Walter Dew, then a detective constable in Whitechapel's H Division in 1888, knew Abberline and, while describing him as sounding and looking like a bank manager, also stated that his knowledge of the area made him one of the most important members of the Whitechapel murder investigation team.

Their driver was Police Constable Geoffrey Roger Fox, aged 41, a beat constable who had served for many years in F Division ( which covered the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith ) and frequently acted as a Q-car driver due to his vast local knowledge.

A constable may merely be an official responsible for service of process: such as summonses and subpoenas for people to appear in court in criminal and / or civil matters.

A constable may be assisted by deputy constables as sworn officers or constable's officers as civil staff, usually as process servers.

In this regard courts prefer constable to handle these matters rather than police officers as they can execute both civil and criminal process.

If a constable is not appointed as a constable with peace officer powers, they can only serve civil processes.

The Anglo-Saxon system of maintaining public order since the Norman conquest was a private system of tithings, led by a constable, which was based on a social obligation for the good conduct of the others ; more common was that local lords and nobles were responsible to maintain order in their lands, and often appointed a constable, sometimes unpaid, to enforce the law.

Another patch collecting specialty is various police agencies such as sheriff, police, highway patrol, marshal, constable, park rangers, law enforcement explorer scouts, or other law enforcement related personnel.

Until the establishment of an official police force in 1857, Monmouth had a parish constable assisted by beadles to keep law and order.

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement.

Most constables in modern jurisdictions are law enforcement officers ; in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations and some European countries, a constable is the lowest rank of police officer ( it is also, when preceded by the term ' sworn ', used to describe any police officer with arrest and other powers ), while in the United States a constable is generally an elected peace officer with lesser jurisdiction than a sheriff.

Often the enacting legislation of the state conferred a police officer with the powers of a constable, the most important of these powers being the common law power of arrest.

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.

The duty of the constable is to uphold the law fairly and firmly: to pursue and bring to justice those who break the law ; to keep the peace ; to protect, help and reassure the community: and to be seen to do all this with integrity, common sense and sound judgment.

* the power to arrest for a breach of the peace at common law, which applies to everyone ( constable or not ), and

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.

With a new town council a law passed in 1874 stated that Kincardine was to be enforced by one constable.

In fact, his brother, Tombstone Marshall and Deputy U. S. Marshall Virgil Earp had considerably more experience with weapons and combat as a Union soldier in the Civil War, and in law enforcement as a sheriff, constable, and marshal.

A number of corporations and institutions have a right under British law to raise private police forces ; in most cases these organisations ( which include railway companies, port and airport authorities, universities, cathedrals, and local government agencies responsible for certain markets, parks, tunnels, and open spaces ) are permitted to employ uniformed officials who hold the office of constable whilst on ( or near to ) the property of the organisation concerned, but have no wider jurisdiction.

The status of special constable in many ( if not most ) cases does not indicate a member of a special police force ; in countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and often elsewhere it will usually describe a voluntary or part-time member of a national or local police force or a person involved in law enforcement who is not a police officer but has some of the powers of a police officer.

PCSOs cannot by law be members of the Police Federation, the staff association to which, by statute, all regular police officers from the rank of constable to that of chief inspector belong.

In New Zealand the law grants a Fire Police officer, when on duty, all the power and authority and responsibility of, a constable.

Presumably Mrs. Walker was no longer compelled to keep law and order in this unique way after the first NSW constable was stationed in 1882.

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 ”.

Bulletin 9-85, further states when a constable is serving criminal process or making a valid arrest, any police officer shall aid in the same manner as they would another police officer.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

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.

The chief constable of Glasgow suggested that criminal elements joined the Home Guard in order to break, enter and loot during the blackout.

The following are criminal offences in relation to PCSOs under the Police Reform Act 2002 for which a PCSO can detain, or a police constable can arrest for:

Judge Benjamin Cardozo, generally considered one of the most influential American jurists whose opinions in several cases pronounced lasting principles of American law, was strongly opposed to the rule, stating that under the rule, " The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered.

He is arrested by the constable Lei Heng and his patrol, who mistake him for a wanted criminal.

Head constable Achuthan Nair reads the Police Verification Report which cites Sethu as a " notorious criminal ".

He teamed up with Viji Thampi and Ranjith in Nanma Niranjavan Srinivasan ( 1990 ) where he played a police constable who is in search of a criminal played by Mukesh.

In the United States, there is no consistent use of the office of constable across the states, and use may vary even within a state.

In some states, a constable may be appointed by the judge of the court which he or she serves ; in others the constable is an elected or appointed position at the village, precinct or township level of local government.

A " special constable " may also be appointed by a municipal court judge for a renewable one-year term upon application by any three " freeholders " ( landowners ) of the county, who are then responsible for paying the special constable.

Each constable may, with approval of the President Judge, appoint deputies to work under his authority.

Each constable may, with approval of the President Judge in the county the constable is elected in, appoint deputies to work under his authority.

The Texas Constitution of 1876 ( Article 5, Section 18 ) provides for the election of a constable in each precinct of a county, and counties may have between four and eight precincts each depending on their population.

The power conferred by such an authorisation may be exercised whether or not the constable reasonably suspects that there is such evidence.

The use of these rooms has been the subject of academic debate: historian Arnold Taylor argued that the first floor of the gatehouse was used by the constable as living accommodation, with the second floor used by senior visitors ; Jeremy Ashbee has since challenged this interpretation, suggesting the high status accommodation may instead have been located within the inner ward, and the gatehouse used for other purposes.

The south-west tower may have been used either by the castle's constable, or by the castle's garrison, and also contained a bakehouse.

Section 65 allows any uniformed constable who believes a person is on their way to a rave within a five-mile radius to stop them and direct them away from the area ; non-compliant citizens may be subject to a maximum fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (£ 1 000 ).

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

Such things as the police car or constable to which the recorder has been allotted may also appear ; also the speed of the car at the time of recording.

A warrant issued in one country may be executed in either of the other two countries by a constable from either the country where it was issued, or the country where it is executed.

When executing a warrant issued in England & Wales or Northern Ireland, a constable may use reasonable force and has specified search powers provided by section 139 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

If a constable suspects that a person has committed or attempted to commit an offence in his country, and that person is now in another country, he may arrest ( and in the case of a constable from Scotland, detain ) them in that other country.

A constable from England & Wales is subject to the same necessity tests for arrest ( as under section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ) as he would be in England & Wales, a constable from Scotland may arrest / detain if it would have been lawful to do so in Scotland and a constable from Northern Ireland is subject to the same necessity tests for arrest ( as under Article 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 ) as he would be in Northern Ireland.