Ever Vigilant – The History Of The Woodstock Police Department

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the stories behind the headlines and the daily operations, problems and solutions of a small-town Ontario police force. It touches on the evolution of crime-fighting methods and the long battle to get a new police station. Though Woodstock is a small town sitting in the middle of dairy farm country, it has had its full share of big as well as small-time thieves, murderers, scoundrels, disasters and triumphs. Fortunately, from the community’s start, it has had a police force of local people doing their best to limit disorder, whether from human or natural causes

The book takes a sympathetic look at police history from the appointment of the first part-time constable in the late 1820s to the amalgamation of the Woodstock Police Department into the Oxford Community Police Services in 1998.

• By Irene Crawford-Siano
• Paperback
• 191 pages
  
• Published by Quarry Heritage Books