Sir Edward James Dodd,

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, QPM (19 October 1909 – 16 September 1966) was Chief Inspector of Constabulary from 1963 until his death. Dodd was educated at

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and HMS Conway. He served with the Merchant Navy and the

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from 1925 to 1931. He was with the

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from 1931 to 1941. He was the 2nd Assistant Chief Constable of the

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from 1941 to 1944, the 1st Assistant Chief Constable from 1944 to 1945 and Chief Constable from 1945 to 1963.‘DODD, Sir Edward (James)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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