ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the influences that went into the making of a small minority: the long-term policeman who endured until pension time. By looking at the factors that brought success to the few, it is possible to consider what intention and motivation lay behind the consistently high dismissal and resignation rate from police forces in the mid-Victorian years. As in the last two chapters, data from Staffordshire and Buckinghamshire for selected years is considered in detail, and much of it is presented in tabular form, for reference purposes.
