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History of the Brighton Police, 1838-1867, by Police Inspector Gerald W. Bines, published 1967 (48 pp., Brighton Borough Police Watch Committee) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502326]

History of East Sussex Police, 1840-1967, by R. V. Kyrke, published 1969 (Sussex Police Authority) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504917][Lib/502144] & West Sussex Libraries

The Police, 1829-1979, published 1979 (leaflet, Sussex Police) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7692]

A Policeman's Lot, by Marjorie Morris, published May 1979 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 13, article, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/13] & The Keep [LIB/500479]

Sussex Police Forces: A Pictorial History from 1836 - 1986, by Neville Poulsom, Mike Rumble and Keith Smith, published 18 July 1987 (144 pp., Midhurst: Middleton Press, ISBN-10: 0906520436 & ISBN-13: 9780906520437) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9832][Lib 14178][Lib 14774] & The Keep [LIB/502148] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Implementation and non-implementation of the 1839-40 policing acts in East and West Sussex, by Roger Wells, published 1991 in Policing and Society (1(4), article, pp.299-317)

The Origins and Development of Policing in Brighton and Hove 1830-1900 with Special Reference to Local Political Context: vol. 1, by Derek John Oakensen, published 1994 (The University of Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502097]

The Origins and Development of Policing in Brighton and Hove 1830-1900 with Special Reference to Local Political Context: vol. 2, by Derek John Oakensen, published 1994 (The University of Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502098]

Candid Camera: Eastbourne officers have attempted to tackle juvenile disorder by videoing disruptive youths, by V. Graham, published 21 June 1996 in Police review (article, pp.25-27) accessible at: British Library

The Police, by L. C. Rumens, published March 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 1, article, pp.12-13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508816] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Desper Rumens of Lamberhurst was nominated in 1777 as a proper person to serve as Constable.

Death in Police Custody, by Molly Nalon, published March 2001 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 5, article, pp.162-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

1911 extract from The Hastings & St. Leonard Weekly Mail & Times No. 1776 entitled Three Tragic Deaths: Died in a Cell which recounts the death of Frederick John Johnson while in the custody of Hasting Police.

Court in the Act: Crime and Policing in WWII Hastings, by Victoria Seymour, published 8 October 2004 (vi + 152 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0954390121 & ISBN-13: 9780954390129) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

On the Brighton Beat: Memoirs of an Old-time Copper, by David Rowland, published 10 July 2006 (208 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939243 & ISBN-13: 9780953939244) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bent Cops: The Brighton Police Conspiracy Trial, by David Rowland, published 24 June 2008 (150 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939278 & ISBN-13: 9780953939275) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

The death and times of Chief Constable Solomon, by David Rowland, published 2009 (94 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780953939299) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507983] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Henry Solomon (1796-1844) was appointed Chief Constable of Brighton police in 1838. This was an unusual position for a Jew at the time. He was mortally wounded by John Lawrence while questioning him in his cell about a theft of a roll of carpet

Antipathy to ambivalence: Politics and Women Police in Sussex, 1915-45 , by Derek Oakensen, published 2015 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 153, article, pp.171-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18934] & The Keep [LIB/509033] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The genesis of women's entry into policing can be found in social changes generated by the First World War and by the pre-war women's suffrage movement. But acceptance and integration were entirely different matters. Quite apart from any fear of proponents' political motivation, the idea that women should be allowed to patrol the streets represented a fundamental challenge to long-standing orthodoxies. Real decision-making power lay, in any case, with antipathetic police authorities and chief constables of the six forces in the county rather than with central government; and lobbying, however well-organised, could take years to precipitate change. What emerged were six distinct approaches which changed with time over the following 30 years. But, in most of Sussex, decision-makers remained ambivalent: the notion that women could be constables and a permanent feature of policing structures was not to be finally settled until well after 1945.

Death Comes Knocking: Policing Roy Grace's Brighton, by Graham Bartlett with Peter James, published 14 July 2016 (320 pp., Pan Books Ltd., ISBN-10: 150981048X & ISBN-13: 9781509810482) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described as Britain's 'crime capital'. Together, in Death Comes Knocking, they have written a gripping account of the city's most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James's characters.
Whether it's the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his family in Sussex's worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trade's most notorious 'knocker boys' or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.