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  1. A special constable in the UK, is a part-time 
  2. volunteer who supplements local POLICE forces 
  3. as required. Special constables were 
  4. established by the Special Constabulary Act 
  5. 1831. They number some 16,000.
  6.  
  7. Subject by: Vince Pike
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