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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 ...
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As all police forces are autonomous organisations there is much variation in organisation and nomenclature; however, outlined below are the main strands of policing that makes up police forces: All police forces have teams of officers who are responsible for general beat duties and response to emergency and non-emergency calls from the public.
These police forces generally come under the control of a local authority, public trusts or even private companies; examples include some ports police and the Mersey Tunnels Police. They could have been established by individual acts of Parliament or under common law powers. Jurisdiction is generally limited to the relevant area of private ...
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Map showing the Police areas of the United Kingdom in 2011. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170% Geographic limits: West: 11.0W; East: 2.2E; North: 61.0N; South: 49.0N; Date: 12 October 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData Boundary-Line: All data; Author: Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data ...
The following list compares the size of police forces and police per head. In 2006, an analysis by the United Nations indicates an approximate median of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Only nine countries disclosed values lower than 100 officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [1]
Police areas were introduced with the passage of the Police Act 1964 and Police (Scotland) Act 1967, when a number of small (mainly county borough) police forces were merged with county ones. The current system of police areas in England and Wales is set out by Section 1 of the Police Act 1996 .