Hartland Parish Council is supporting a move to get a resident policeman stationed in the township, as was the case until comparatively recently.

They were asked to do so by Mrs Muriel Henwood who told them she had been ‘nearly killed’ in an incident just after 5pm a few days previously, and she was campaigning to have a policeman stationed in Hartland.
The chairman, Mr Arthur George, said he understood there had been complaints about the riding of motorcycles, adding ‘I have to stand back in the hedge when I’m walking up the road and they come along’.
Later the Parish Council were told that child cyclists were causing danger in the town by riding on the high pavement in Fore Street and around old people’s bungalows. ‘It only needs a word in the right place to stop this’ they were told.