1.   Every one else was virtually a special constable.

2.   He became a special constable, a member of the local emergency committee.

3.   Several people volunteered for being special constables but Tom remained silent.

4.   The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play.

5.   Too old to fight, he had served as a special constable during the war.

6.   DETECTIVES believe a hitchhiker may have witnessed the murder of a special constable in North Yorkshire.

7.   Seven other County Durham officers and a special constable have also been commended by the chief constable.

8.   PC David Beverley, WPC Karen Chestney and special constable Andrew Holmes restrained a knifewielding man at a night club in Spennymoor last July.

9.   A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check, an Old Bailey court heard yesterday.