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    CRIMINAL ACTS

    Mar 13, 2020 4 minutes

    This year, London’s Postal Museum’s Crime Season looks at the stories behind some of the big-news mail robberies and the role of the Post Office’s Investigation Branch in combating theft. Paula Hammond went along to find out more

    It was in 1635 that Charles I opened the Royal Mail up for public use and, by 1683, fraud had become such a problem that they appointed their first Assistant Solicitor, Richard Swift, for ‘the detection and carrying out of all prosecutions against persons for robbing the mails…’.

    Today, the Post Office’s Investigation Branch is recognised as the oldest criminal investigations force in the world and, during its 335-year history, their investigators

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