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Territorial police force Essex Police: County of Essex and unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock: 3,678 [1] £320.2 [2] 3,670: 1969 East of England: England and Wales: Territorial police force Gloucestershire Constabulary: County of Gloucestershire: 1,279 [1] £126.9 [2] 3,150: 1839 South West England: England and Wales ...
The force was originally known as the West Yorkshire Constabulary. Some older signs around the Force area, such as the one in the reception of Millgarth Police Station in Leeds city centre, read 'West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police'. The 'Metropolitan' from the police title was dropped in 1986 when the metropolitan county councils were abolished.
The constabulary was founded in 1841, under the County Police Act, five years after the Hertford Borough Police and St Albans Borough Police had been formed. In 1889, the Hertford Borough Police force was merged into Hertfordshire. The first constables were working-class men and were paid at the level of an agricultural labourer.
In the historic Lancashire county area these borough police forces were Bolton Borough Police (1839–1969), Oldham Borough Police (1849–1969), Rochdale Borough Police (1857–1969) and Wigan Borough Police (1836–1969). In the historic Cheshire county area this included Stockport Borough Police (at least 1835–1967).
Essex Police is a territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Essex, in the East of England. Essex Police is responsible for a population of over 1.8 million people and an area of 1,420 square miles (3,700 km 2). The chief constable is Ben-Julian Harrington, [4] who took up the appointment in October 2018.
A proposal to merge the force with the Cheshire Constabulary to form a strategic police force was made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006 [5] but later abandoned. Merseyside maintained in 2018 it could lose 300 officers, reducing the force to 3,172. This would be a 31% reduction since 2010 when there were 4,616 officers. [6]
The force absorbed Durham City Police (formed in 1836) in 1921, Hartlepool Borough Police (formed in 1851) in 1947, Sunderland Borough Police (formed in 1837) in 1967, and Gateshead Borough Police (formed in 1836) and South Shields Borough Police (formed in 1839) in 1968, when it also lost some of its area to Teesside Constabulary.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary's HQ in Huntingdon. Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the local territorial police force that covers the county of Cambridgeshire and the Peterborough district of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire administered by the unitary authority of Peterborough City Council.