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A Police Dog vehicle pictured in 2013. Avon and Somerset Police use a variety of standard UK police equipment including TETRA digital radios, rigid handcuffs, PAVA spray and the ASP collapsible baton. Some officers also routinely carry the TASER Stun device designed to electrically shock a subject making them fall to the ground and to be subdued.
The Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Avon and Somerset Police in the English unitary authorities of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Somerset. The post was created in ...
Bristol Constabulary, also called Bristol City Police, was a police force responsible for policing the city of Bristol in south-west England from its foundation in 1835 until 1974, when it was amalgamated under the Local Government Act 1972 with Somerset and Bath Constabulary and parts of the Gloucestershire Constabulary to form the Avon and ...
The force was founded in 1839, six hours after Wiltshire Constabulary, making it the second rural police force formed in Britain. [4] The force in its present form dates from 1 April 1974, when the southern part of Gloucestershire became part of the County of Avon and thus covered by the newly formed Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
Marsh was born in 1966 in Liverpool, England. [3]His policing career commenced as a recruit at Avon and Somerset in 1987. [4] He later became assistant chief constable (ACC) for Wiltshire Police, then ACC for Avon and Somerset, then chief constable of Hampshire Constabulary. [4]
He began his career at Avon and Somerset Police in Chipping Sodbury in 1988, later becoming a patrol inspector in Bristol and District Commander for Bath and North East Somerset. [2] Hansen rose to the position of Assistant Chief Constable, before moving to Gloucestershire Constabulary in May 2013 to take up the position of Deputy Chief Constable.
To Catch a Copper is a 2024 British documentary series about investigations into officer misconduct within the Avon and Somerset Police.The series has three episodes, which are themed around mental health, race, and sex crimes. [1]
Mark Grosvenor McNeill Shelford (born November 1961 [3]) is a British Conservative politician and former lieutenant colonel in the British Army, who served as the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner from 2021 until 2024.