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VIVA MEMORIES

I was interested to see David Williams' letter in the March issue regarding Gloucestershire Police and its Austin Westminsters. It was a long-held ambition of mine to join the police, so around the mid-60s I joined the volunteer police cadets, a sort of boy-scout-with-clout if anyone only glanced at the uniform quickly. We were taken down to the garage

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