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Black Maria

a police van for transporting prisoners

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Prisoners being taken under armed guard in buses, (Prison Dept 'Black Marias of today), have been shot at and seriously wounded.

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It was also an age when local police boxes, truncheons, police whistles and "black marias" were an accepted part of the bobby's arsenal in a world of petty larcenies and the occasional headline-grabbing gruesome murder.

Changing face of vital service; Nostalgia editor DAVE MORTON takes a trip through the photographic archives in search of memories of the men and women who have enforced the rule of law and order in the region - and beyond -since the Victorian era

White Maria (although we don't really need to call her White Maria as there are clearly no Black Marias on the Conservative benches), is a 50-year-old mother-of-three who has managed to make a million pounds on her home in Wimbledon, South West London, and was helped by abusing parliamentary rules.

Miller gets a PS45,000 benefits treat; In association with Unite the Union

Shortly afterwards I had a dozen policemen and two Black Marias at my door, arresting me and charging me with a crime I didn't even know had been committed.