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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and British Overseas Territories. There are a number of agencies that participate in law enforcement in the United Kingdom which can be grouped into three general types:

The majority of law enforcement in the United Kingdom is carried out by territorial police forces that police the general public and their activities. The other types of agencies are concerned with policing of more specific matters.

Over the centuries there has been a wide variation in the number of police forces in the United Kingdom, with a large number now no longer in existence.

National law enforcement

Bodies with police powers

These bodies operate in more than one country of the United Kingdom. The remit of some of the forces is further limited to the areas that they police, such as railway infrastructure. The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 gave the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police a limited, conditional authority to act outside of their primary jurisdiction if the situation requires urgent police action and the local force are not readily available, or if they believe that there is risk to life or limb, or where they are assisting the local force.

Government agencies
  • National Crime Agency (NCA) – An agency that leads UK-wide activities to combat high-level crime such as organised crime. In addition, the NCA acts as the UK point of contact for foreign law enforcement agencies. It replaced the Serious Organised Crime Agency in 2013.

Additionally, the following three government agencies are defined in legislation as "special police forces". As these forces are responsible to specific areas of infrastructure, they do not answer to the Home Office, but instead to the government department responsible for the area they police. All three forces do voluntarily submit themselves to HMIC inspection:

  • Ministry of Defence Police – A police force tasked with providing armed security, uniformed policing, and investigative services to Ministry of Defence installations throughout the United Kingdom.[1]
  • Civil Nuclear Constabulary – A police force responsible for providing law enforcement and security at or within 5 km of any relevant nuclear site and for nuclear materials in transit within the United Kingdom.[2]
  • British Transport Police (Great Britain) – A police force responsible for providing law enforcement at certain railways and light-rail systems in Great Britain.[3]
Bodies hosted by the Association of Chief Police Officers
Bodies hosted by territorial police forces
  • National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit – A police unit that is part of the Metropolitan Police Service Specialist Operations Directorate, tasked with coordinating police response to domestic extremism across the United Kingdom.
  • Protection Command – A police unit that is part of the Metropolitan Police Service Specialist Operations Directorate, responsible for providing protective security to the government/diplomatic community and the Royal Family within the United Kingdom.
  • National Fraud Intelligence Bureau – A police unit hosted by the City of London Police, tasked with combating economic crime throughout the United Kingdom.
  • National Ballistics Intelligence Service (Great Britain) – A police unit hosted by West Midlands Police, tasked with gathering and disseminating fast time intelligence on the criminal use of firearms across Great Britain.
  • National Police Air Service (England and Wales) – A police aviation service hosted by West Yorkshire Police, that provides centralised air support to the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales.

Bodies with limited executive powers

These organisations are not police forces but do have similar powers to that of the police with the exception that they cannot arrest a person nor make forcible entry without a warrant.

  • Border Force is a part of the Home Office, responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in the United Kingdom. Employees of Border Force may be Immigration Officers and/or customs officers. They hold certain powers of arrest, detention and search in addition to those available to Any person[4] in England and Wales or to any person in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Police-like powers are exercised by border officers and inland immigration enforcement officers. The agency also has a specialist criminal investigations directorate.
  • Immigration Enforcement
  • Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. Since the creation of the UK Border Agency (now Border Force), staff of HMRC no longer perform frontline duties at ports of entry. The remainder of the staff with law enforcement powers employed by HMRC consists of the Criminal Investigation Branch, who, as customs officers, continue to exercise the powers granted under the Customs Management Acts and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 including arrest.
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (Great Britain)
  • Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland)
  • The Independent Police Complaints Commission (England and Wales) investigates complaints against police officers and staff of the police forces in England and Wales,[5] and staff of HM Revenue and Customs, the National Crime Agency in England and Wales and the UK Border Agency. Certain investigators of the IPCC, for the purposes of the carrying out of an investigation and all purposes connected with it, have all the powers and privileges of constables throughout England and Wales and the territorial waters.[6]

Bodies with solely investigatory powers

Main article: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000

The use of investigatory powers is controlled by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Up to 792 public authorities have powers that are restricted by RIPA.[7]

Territorial police forces

See also: List of police forces of the United Kingdom

Naming

County police forces traditionally bore the name "constabulary" upon their formation (as a derivation of "constable"). The reorganisation of police forces over the years has seen this name dropped in favour of "police" as a name, as many have decided that the word "constabulary" is confusing for people more used to searching for the word "police".[8] However, a number of police forces in the areas overseen by the United Kingdom retain the name "constabulary":

England and Wales

Except in Greater London, each territorial police force covers one or more of the local government areas (counties) established in the 1974 local government reorganisations (although with subsequent modifications), in an area known as a police area. These forces provide the majority of policing services to the public of England and Wales. These forces have been known historically as "Home Office police forces" due to the Acts of Parliament [citation needed] that established them although use of that description was only correct for the Metropolitan Police and in that case ceased to be so when local control was transferred from the Home Office to the Metropolitan Police Authority. Despite the implication of the term, all police forces are independent, with operational control resting solely with the chief officer of each force (the Chief Constable or with regard to the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police forces, their respective Commissioners); each force was overseen by a Police authority until these were replaced by Police and Crime Commissioners in 2012.

The Police Act 1996 is the most recent piece of legislation, which outlines the areas of responsibility for the 43 territorial forces of England and Wales (found in Schedule 1 of the Act).

Constable is the lowest rank in the police service, but all officers, whatever their rank are "constables" in terms of legal powers and jurisdiction. Police officers in territorial police forces in England and Wales derive their jurisdiction from Section 30 of the Police Act 1996. This section outlines that such officers have jurisdiction throughout England and Wales and also the adjacent United Kingdom waters. Special Constables, who are part-time, volunteer officers of these forces, used to have a more limited jurisdiction – limited solely to their own force areas and adjacent forces (collectively, their "constablewick"). Since 1 April 2007, however Special Constables of England & Wales have full police powers throughout those two countries. This means that, in contrast to the majority of countries, all UK volunteer police officers now have exactly the same powers as their full-time colleagues. There are a number of situations in which the jurisdiction of a constable extends to one of the other countries – see the main article for details.

  Police of England and Wales

As of March 2010 police numbers in England and Wales were:[3]

England
  Police of England
  1. Avon and Somerset Constabulary
  2. Bedfordshire Police
  3. Cambridgeshire Constabulary
  4. Cheshire Constabulary[10]
  5. City of London Police (not shown)
  6. Cleveland Police
  7. Cumbria Constabulary
  8. Derbyshire Constabulary
  9. Devon and Cornwall Police
  10. Dorset Police
  11. Durham Constabulary
  12. Essex Police
  13. Gloucestershire Constabulary
  14. Greater Manchester Police
  15. Hampshire Constabulary
  16. Hertfordshire Constabulary
  17. Humberside Police
  18. Kent Police
  19. Lancashire Constabulary[10]
  20. Leicestershire Police
  21. Lincolnshire Police
  22. Merseyside Police[10]
  23. Metropolitan Police Service
  24. Norfolk Constabulary
  25. Northamptonshire Police
  26. Northumbria Police
  27. North Yorkshire Police
  28. Nottinghamshire Police
  29. South Yorkshire Police
  30. Staffordshire Police[11]
  31. Suffolk Constabulary
  32. Surrey Police
  33. Sussex Police
  34. Thames Valley Police
  35. Warwickshire Police
  36. West Mercia Police[11]
  37. West Midlands Police[11]
  38. West Yorkshire Police
  39. Wiltshire Police

As of March 2010 police numbers in England:[3]

Wales
  Police of Wales
  1. Dyfed-Powys Police (Heddlu Dyfed Powys)
  2. Gwent Police (Heddlu Gwent)
  3. North Wales Police (Heddlu Gogledd Cymru)
  4. South Wales Police (Heddlu De Cymru)

As of March 2010 police numbers in Wales were:[3]

Collaborative units
  • South East Counter Terrorism Unit
  • South West Counter Terrorism Unit
  • East Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit
  • East Midlands Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit
  • West Midlands Police Counter Terrorism Unit
  • North West Counter Terrorism Unit
  • North East Counter Terrorism Unit
  • Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit

Scotland

Most police powers and functions have been inherited by the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament from the Scottish Office. Areas for which legislative responsibility remains with the UK Government include national security, terrorism, firearms and drugs. The Police (Scotland) Act 1967, as amended, was the basis for the organisation and jurisdiction of the eight former territorial forces in Scotland that were formed in 1975. These forces covered one or more of the areas of the local government regions established in the 1975 local government reorganisation (and since abolished), with minor adjustments to align with the post-1996 council area borders. These forces provided the majority of police services to the public of Scotland, although Scottish police officers also have limited jurisdiction throughout the rest of the United Kingdom as required (See above comments under English and Welsh forces).

In 2011, the Scottish Government announced that it planned to amalgamate the eight territorial forces in Scotland, along with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, into a single agency. The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, an Act of the Scottish Parliament, codified this amalgamation and brought about the new Police Service of Scotland (to be known as "Police Scotland"). The new force was established on 1 April 2013.

  Police Scotland

In 2017, plans were being debated in the Scottish Parliament to merge railway policing with Police Scotland.

As of December 2012, police numbers in Scotland were:[12]

Community Support Officers, commonly referred to as "Police Community Support Officers", were established by Section 38(2) of the Police Reform Act 2002, which applies only to England and Wales. There are therefore no Community Support Officers in Scotland.

Northern Ireland

County and borough based police forces were not formed in Ireland as they were in Great Britain, with instead a single Royal Irish Constabulary covering most of Ireland (the exceptions being the Dublin Metropolitan Police, which was responsible for policing in Dublin, and the Belfast Town Police force, which was replaced by the RIC in the 1880s). The Royal Ulster Constabulary was formed in 1922 after the establishment of the Irish Free State, and served until the reforms of the police under the terms established initially by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 undertaken by the Patten Commission, which led to the renaming of the RUC in 2001. The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 sets out the basis for the organisation and function of the police force in the province. Until 2010, police powers were not transferred to the devolved Northern Ireland Executive, unlike Scotland, instead remaining with the Northern Ireland Office. However, in January 2010 agreement was reached between the two largest parties in the Assembly, the DUP and Sinn Féin, over a course that would see them assume responsibility for policing and justice from April.[13]

  Police Service of Northern Ireland

As of April 2007 police numbers in Northern Ireland were:[3]

  • Police officers: 7,216
  • Full-time reserve police officers: 335
  • Part-time police officers: 684
  • Other staff: 2,265

Police in Northern Ireland do not employ Police Community Support Officers

Miscellaneous police forces

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 property alone and in some cases (e.g. docks and harbours) the surrounding area. This, together with the small size of the police forces, means they are often reliant on the territorial force for the area under whose jurisdiction they fall to assist with any serious matter. The statutory responsibility for law and order sits with the territorial police forces even if there is a specialist police force in the locality. These police forces do not have independent Police Authorities and their founding statutes (if any) do not generally prescribe their structure and formation.

Ports police

There are two types of port police in the United Kingdom — most are sworn in under the 1847 Act, but a few have Acts specific to their port.

Ports police operating under the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847

For every port/harbour, an individual Act of Parliament (or, more recently, a Harbour (Revision) Order) can incorporate parts of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (HDPCA) and apply them to that specific port/harbour. Officers of port police forces are sworn in as "special constables" under section 79 of the 1847 Act, as incorporated by the individual local Act. As a result, officers have the full powers of a constable on any land owned by the harbour, dock, or port and at any place within one mile of any owned land. The Marine Navigation Act 2013 enables the one mile limit for ports police in England and Wales to be removed where the chief officer of the local police force consents. There are 224 constables sworn in under the 1847 Act.[14] Serious or major incidents or crime generally become the responsibility of the local territorial police force.

Other ports police

Parks police

Parks not controlled by local authorities

These small constabularies are responsible for policing specific land and parks. Officers of these forces have the powers of a constable within their limited jurisdiction. They are not constables as dealt with in the general Police Acts.

The Parks Regulation Act 1872 provides for the attestation of parks constables.

Parks controlled by local authorities
A photograph of officers of the Birmingham Parks Police, taken between c. 1900 and 1910.

Over history, a number of local authorities outside London have maintained their own parks police forces, the most notable being Liverpool (Liverpool Parks Police) and Birmingham (Birmingham Parks Police). No local authority parks police forces currently exist outside London, although the legal powers for them to do so (granted by various local Acts of Parliament) survive in a limited number of cases.

In London, these constabularies are responsible for enforcing byelaws within the parks and open spaces of their respective local authorities. Members of the constabularies are sworn as constables under article 18 of the Greater London Parks and Open Spaces Order 1967[18]. Members of the constabularies are constables only in relation to the enforcement of the parks byelaws (which, by definition, apply only in the parks).[19]

Some of these constables have (or have had) a shared role as security staff for their own local authority's buildings and housing estates with appropriate changes of badges and/or uniform being made when changing to/from park duties.

Other

Service police

Main article: Military police of the United Kingdom

In British Forces Germany, under the Status Of Forces Act, military police have jurisdiction over British Forces personnel, their families, MOD contractors, and NAAFI staff. In the UK, they have limited powers over civilians, though they do have primary police powers over service personnel, the policing of civilians and dependants remains a civil police responsibility. Members of military police services are not sworn as 'constables' but are Police Officers as detailed by the Armed Forces Act 2006 and have full police powers over UK service personnel regardless of location internationally. In England and Wales, Military Police personnel can utilise powers under Sect 24(A) Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 which allows them to arrest any individual they have reasonable grounds to suspect is committing, has committed or is about to commit an indictable offence.

Service Police are PACE trained and all investigations are PACE compliant[clarification needed]. They make regular use of civilian police facilities often conducting joint investigations where necessary. The Service Police are able to investigate all crime within their jurisdiction, up to and including Murder, however within the UK offences of murder and sudden deaths are passed to the local police force as per national jurisdiction agreements.

Service Police operating in the UK there are no geographical boundaries placed upon them and they often conduct arrest, searches and investigations at civilian addresses throughout the UK and overseas.

Whilst operating in conflict zones the military police will conduct the full range of policing including murder investigations as evidenced by the Sgt Blackman investigation.[22]

Crown dependencies

Isle of Man

Bailiwick of Jersey

  • The States of Jersey Police (Police d'États de Jersey) is the police service of Jersey. It was established in its current form by the Police Force (Jersey) Law, 1974 and consists of around 240 officers.
A recruiting banner for the Honorary Police showing the arms of each parish: (from left to right) Grouville, St Brelade, St John, Trinity, St Saviour, St Ouen, St Helier, St Mary, St Lawrence, St Clement, St Peter, St Martin

Bailiwick of Guernsey

  • The States of Guernsey Police Service (États de Guernesey Service de police) is the local police force for the Crown dependency of Guernsey. In addition to providing police for the island of Guernsey itself, the Guernsey Police also provides detachments for the islands of Alderney, Herm and Sark.
  • Guernsey Border Agency, responsible with policing cross border and financial crime, customs and immigration.

Overseas Territories

Ministry of Defence overseas police

Overseas service police

  • British Indian Ocean Territory Joint Service Police Unit
  • Cyprus Joint Police Unit
  • Falkland Islands Joint Service Police Security Unit
  • Gibraltar Joint Provost and Security Unit

Overseas law enforcement in the UK

Main article: Law enforcement in the United Kingdom § Overseas police forces in the UK

There are certain instances where police forces of other nations operate in a limited degree in the United Kingdom:

Fictional police forces

In the majority of crime fiction, in print or on screen, set in the UK, real police forces are often used as the basis of the drama (though often set in fictional locations). However, there have been some works of fiction that have created their own police forces:

  • Bradfield Police - police force in Wire in the Blood, which in reality would be the West Yorkshire Police.
  • Brazen Gate Police- police force in 2012 BBC television film Blood. Unlike most UK police services, it utilises dark green and yellow as its primary uniform colours.
  • County Police / County Constabulary – a non-specific identity occasionally used for police dramas and sketches set in fictional or unspecified places on television, sometimes with matching uniforms and badges. The ITV police series A Touch of Frost, set in the fictional town of Denton in the south Midlands, utilises this identity.
  • Central Police - police force in the BBC 2 series Line of Duty and the Netflix miniseries Residue. In Line of Duty it is located in an unspecified city in the Midlands, and is home to the AC-12 anti corruption unit, the focus of the show. In Residue it is the police force in an unnamed futuristic metropolis in the UK.
  • Chiltern Police - police service in the ITV1 series Case Sensitive, responsible for policing the Chiltern district and surrounding areas of Buckinghamshire. In reality the area is covered by Thames Valley Police.
  • City of Town Constabulary - the police force in the Sky 1 comedy police procedural series A Touch of Cloth.
  • City of Manchester Police - police service in the ITV1 series Cold Blood. In reality it would be Greater Manchester Police.
  • Criminal Intelligence 5 - national law enforcement agency in the ITV television series The Professionals. It deals with serious crimes beyond the capacity of the police, but below the capacity of the security services and military.
  • Dee Valley Police– the local force in the Channel 4 television series Hollyoaks, which in reality would be Cheshire Constabulary.
  • Eastlands Constabulary – the local force in Anglia TV's The Chief, about a fictional Chief Constable, played initially by Tim Pigott-Smith, and latterly, Martin Shaw.
  • East Central Police - police service in the ITV documentary style police drama Crime Stories.
  • East Midlands Constabulary- police service in BBC 2's Line of Duty and ITV1's Undeniable. In Line of Duty it neighbours the jurisdiction of Central Police, with one area it covers being the Leicester area. In Undeniable it is shown to have jurisdiction in Derbyshire, which in reality is covered by the Derbyshire Constabulary
  • East Sussex Police - police service in the ITV drama The Level, covering East Sussex and the city of Brighton. In reality the area would be covered by Sussex Police.
  • East Tyne Police – the local force in the ITV1 legal drama Close and True, covering the area of Newcastle upon Tyne. In reality it would be Northumbria Police.
  • Edinburgh Metropolitan Police - police service in One of Us, a BBC One drama miniseries . In reality it would be Police Scotland.
  • Fylde Police - the service responsible for policing Blackpool and the surrounding areas in the second series of the ITV police drama Prey. In reality, it would be the jurisdiction of the Lancashire Constabulary.
  • Greater London Police - the police force in the BBC drama series Silent Witness and New Blood and the Channel 5 series Suspects. It would be the Metropolitan Police in reality.
  • Greater Yorkshire Police - the police force in the ITV miniseries Black Work. The setting of the show (Leeds and the surrounding areas) would in reality be covered by West Yorkshire Police.
  • Heddlu Cambria / Cambria Police - police service in the BBC Wales noir series Hinterland. Cambria is the Latinised form of Cymru, the Welsh name for the country, suggesting it is a national police force. The show takes place in Aberystwyth, which in real life would be covered by Dyfed–Powys Police.
  • Heddlu Valleys / Valleys Police – the local police force in the BBC Wales television series High Hopes
  • Liverpool Metropolitan Police - police force seen in the BBC One police procedural Good Cop. In reality it would be Merseyside Police.
  • London City Force - police service covering the city of London in the BBC One Scotland comedy series Scot Squad, which in reality would be the Metropolitan Police.
  • London East Police - police service in the Sky1 drama Thorne, which would be the Metropolitan Police in reality.
  • London Police - the police force in the Sky1 series Stan Lee's Lucky Man and the 2011 crime film Blitz, which would be the Metropolitan Police in reality.
  • Manchester & Salford Police Authority - another police service mentioned in the 2012 BBC television film Blood.
  • Manchester Metropolitan Police - police service used ITV's Scott & Bailey and Prey and Channel 4's No Offence. In reality it would be Greater Manchester Police.
  • Midlands Police - police service in the BBC One series WPC 56 covering Birmingham and the surrounding areas, including the fictional town of Brinford. In reality the area would be covered by Birmingham City Police (at the time the show is set in 1965) and West Midlands Police (in the present day).
  • Midlands Central Police – the police service used in BBC Birmingham soap Doctors, it would in reality be West Midlands Police but due to copyright issues surrounding the use of force logos the BBC renamed it Midlands Central Police.
  • Midsomer Constabulary – the local police force for the fictional county of Midsomer in the Midsomer Murders book and television series.
  • National Crime Division - a national law enforcement agency in the ITV crime drama The Level. It is a fictional version of the National Crime Agency.
  • Newtown and Seaport – the towns patrolled by the characters in Z-Cars, a UK television series from the 1960s. Set somewhere in Northern England to the north of Liverpool but possibly with no police force name actually mentioned.
  • North Berkshire Police - police service in the E4 drama Glue, responsible for policing the rural northern area of Berkshire including the fictional village of Overton. In reality the area would be covered by Thames Valley Police.
  • Northbourne Constabulary- the British police force that liaises with the French DCPJ in the Sky Atlantic series The Tunnel, which in reality would be Kent Police.
  • North Counties Constabulary – the local police force in series two of the BBC-HBO series Five Days, set in the fictitious city of Castlebury, Yorkshire. Within the plot-line, both North Counties Constabulary and the British Transport Police are housed within the same building.
  • Northumberland & City / Northumbria & City Police - the fictitious police force in Vera whose name changes inexplicably throughout the series. The force area covers Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland, which in reality is covered by Northumbria Police.
  • North West Police - The police force used in the BBC One series Paradox and occasionally the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (although continuity errors sometimes have it called Weatherfield Police instead). In reality it would be Greater Manchester Police.
  • Sandford Police Service / Sandford Constabulary – the local police force for the fictional village of Sanford seen in the 2007 British film Hot Fuzz. Interestingly Sandford is also the fictional town used for training scenarios by most police forces and is also the name of the real life police training ground. Hence most UK police officers were already familiar with the name before the film was released. Due to the villages location in the movie, Gloucestershire Constabulary would have jurisdiction in real life.
  • Scottish National Police - mainland police service in the BBC Scotland TV series Shetland, which in real life would be Police Scotland.
  • Scottish Police Force - national police service in the BBC One Scotland comedy series Scot Squad. It is a parody of Police Scotland, which would have jurisdiction in real life.
  • Shetland Constabulary - island police service in the BBC Scotland TV series Shetland. Its force logo is very similar to that of the now defunct Northern Constabulary, which had jurisdiction in the Shetland Islands until 2013. The real life police service covering this area would be Police Scotland.
  • South Dart Police - police service in the BBC Birmingham series The Coroner, covering the South Hams area of Devon including the fictional town of Lighthaven. In real life the area would be covered by Devon & Cornwall Police.
  • South Hertfordshire Police - police service in series one of the BBC-HBO series Five Days and its subsequent spinoff Hunter. Its jurisdiction in the show would be covered by Hertfordshire Constabulary in reality.
  • South Mercia Constabulary - the police service that neighbours the jurisdiction of Wessex Police in ITV1's Broadchurch.
  • South Sussex Police - police service in the BBC1 series Cuffs covering Brighton and the surrounding areas. In reality, the area is covered by Sussex Police.
  • South West Constabulary - police force in the ITV series Wycliffe, covering mainly central and west Cornwall (including Newquay and Camborne), and parts of Devon. In real life these areas are covered by Devon & Cornwall Police.
  • Successville Police Department - police service in the BBC Three improvisational comedy Murder in Successville. It covers the fictional city of Successville, which is populated entirely by celebrities.
  • Oxfordshire Police Force - the local police force in the television series Lewis due to problems[23] between the producers and Thames Valley Police, who had previously cooperated with the preceding Morse series
  • Tatshire Blues – the local police force in The Box of Delights
  • Thamesford Constabulary – the local police force for the fictional county of Thamesford in the television series Softly, Softly: Taskforce.
  • Tyneside Police – the police force for Tyneside used in 55 Degrees North police drama. The badge and uniforms were very similar to Northumbria Police, the actual police force for Tyneside. Throughout the series most of the paperwork and signage read 'Tyneside Police' however some paperwork still reads 'Northumbria Police'.
  • Wyvern Constabulary – the local police force for the fictional county of Wyvern originally seen during 1967 in the television series Softly, Softly and now featuring in the series Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue.
  • Yorkshire Police - the police force in the television series Emmerdale, DCI Banks, Happy Valley, The Moorside and the third series of The Syndicate. In regards to Emmerdale, the two forces covering this area would be West Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Police. The areas featured within DCI Banks (the cities of Leeds and Bradford), Happy Valley (Halifax and the Calderdale area) and The Moorside (Dewsbury) are covered by West Yorkshire Police. Scarborough, the setting of series three of The Syndicate would be covered by North Yorkshire Police.
  • Weatherfield Police / Weatherfield Central Police - police service in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street covering the fictional town of Weatherfield, although occasional continuity errors result in it sometimes being called North West Police instead. In reality would be Greater Manchester Police.
  • Wessex Police - the police force in ITV1's Broadchurch, which polices the county of Dorset, the setting of the series. In reality Dorset Police would be responsible.
  • Westbridge Police - police service in Sky1's crime drama The Five.
  • Woodmere Police - police service in the ITV1 and Netflix series Paranoid. The fictional town of Woodmere is stated to be in Cheshire, so would be covered by Cheshire Constabulary in reality.

See also

References

  1. ^ Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency Annual Report 2005-2006
  2. ^ CNPA/CNC Annual Review 2006–07 Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c d e APA Police Service Strength Map Update Archived 7 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Association of Police Authorities, 28 August 2010.
  4. ^ Part III Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
  5. ^ http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/DG_10012032
  6. ^ "Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30)". Opsi.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  7. ^ Rayner, Gordon (12 April 2008). "Council spy cases hit 1,000 a month". Telegraph. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  8. ^ "Name change for police force". This is Cornwall. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  9. ^ "An Act for the regualtion of Royal Parks and Gardens" (PDF). UK Government. 27 June 1872. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  10. ^ a b c Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside participate in a partnership called the North West Motorway Police Group
  11. ^ a b c Staffordshire, West Mercia and West Midlands participate in a partnership called the Central Motorway Police Group
  12. ^ [1]
  13. ^ What will happen when policing and justice is devolved? – BBC News, 05/02/10
  14. ^ "Accountability and Standards of the Port Police Forces". Dft.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 6 April 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ section 5, Belfast Harbour Act 1847
  16. ^ Port of Felixstowe: Port Protection
  17. ^ section 3(d), Falmouth Docks Act 1959
  18. ^ The 1967 order is scheduled to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation (Greater London Parks and Open Spaces) Act 1967
  19. ^ Kelly, Amanda. "THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE RESPONSE BRANCH OF THE COUNCIL'S CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR SERVICE" (PDF). Website of London Borough of Newham Council. London Borough of Newham Council. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  20. ^ http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/West_London_Parks_Police_join_forces.asp
  21. ^ "Northern Ireland Security Guard Service - PoliceSpecials.com Forum". Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  22. ^ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/contents
  23. ^ IMDB - Lewis (2007–)

Further reading

  • Helen Gough, Police and Constabulary Almanac (Police & Constabulary Almanac), Shaw & Sons (21 February 2007), 500 pages, ISBN 0-7219-1662-7, ISBN 978-0-7219-1662-0 [2]

External links

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