List of police forces of the United Kingdom
This is a list of the 45 territorial police forces and 3 special police forces of the United Kingdom. It does not include non-police law enforcement agencies or bodies of constables not constituted as police forces.
For a list of all law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom and its territories, see List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories.
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Table
Force | Area of responsibility | Number of police officers | Budget (millions) | Area size (km2) | Formed | Legal jurisdiction | Type |
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Avon and Somerset Police | Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire | 2,886[1] | £326.6[2] | 4,777 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Bedfordshire Police | Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, and Luton | 1,300[1] | £122.5[2] | 1,024 | 1966 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
British Transport Police | National Rail network, Docklands Light Railway, Glasgow Subway, London Trams, London Underground, West Midlands Metro, and the Sunderland line of the Tyne and Wear Metro | 2,984[1] | £319.17[3] | - | 1948 as BTCP | On railway land (and also other areas upon request by another police force, and in certain other circumstances) in England, Wales, and Scotland only | Special police force |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and unitary authority of Peterborough | 1,597[1] | £156.2[2] | 3,389 | 1965 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Cheshire Constabulary | Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and Warrington | 2,131[1] | £208.0[2] | 2,155 | 1857 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
City of London Police | City of London | 811[1] | £67.0[2] | 2.6 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Civil Nuclear Constabulary | Civilian nuclear facilities | 1,310[a] | £116.7[5] | - | 2005 | Civilian nuclear sites and surrounding lands up to 5 km distant, and any such places as required when escorting nuclear materials in transit or pursuing or detaining suspects | Special police force |
Cleveland Police | Unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees | 1,373[1] | £143.5[2] | 597 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Cumbria Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria | 1,229[1] | £117.8 | 6,768 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Derbyshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby | 1,861[1] | £193.9[2] | 2,625 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Devon and Cornwall Police | Non-metropolitan county of Devon and unitary authorities of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Plymouth, and Torbay | 3,197[1] | £338.4[2] | 10,270 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Dorset Police | Unitary authorities of Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 1,268[1] | £144.3[2] | 2,653 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Durham Constabulary | Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington | 1,168 | £133.3[2] | 2,676 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Dyfed-Powys Police | Principal areas of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and Powys | 1,183[1] | £115.5[2] | 10,976 | 1968 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Essex Police | Non-metropolitan county of Essex and unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock | 3,318[1] | £320.2[2] | 3,670 | 1969 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire | 1,200[1] | £126.9[2] | 3,150 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Greater Manchester Police | Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester | 6,965[1] | £643.0[2] | 1,276 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Gwent Police | Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Torfaen | 1,340[1] | £142.2[2] | 1,555 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and unitary authorities of the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, and Southampton | 2,812[1] | £366.4[2] | 4,149 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire | 2,152[1] | £221.3[2] | 1,643 | 1841 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Humberside Police | Unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, and North Lincolnshire | 2,005[1] | £200.7[2] | 3,517 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Kent Police | Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway | 3,836[1] | £338.4[2] | 3,736 | 1857 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Lancashire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and unitary authorities of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool | 3,031[1] | £308.8[2] | 3,075 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Leicestershire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire and unitary authorities of Leicester and Rutland | 2,053[1] | £204.0[2] | 2,538 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Lincolnshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire | 1,073[1] | £131.6[2] | 5,921 | 1856 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Merseyside Police | Metropolitan county of Merseyside | 3,659[1] | £359.7[2] | 645 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Metropolitan Police Service | Metropolitan Police District (London region excluding the City of London) | 33,177[1] | £2,939.9 (£2.9 billion)[2] | 1,578 | 1829 | England and Wales (includes Scotland and Northern Ireland for officers on close protection duties) | Territorial police force |
Ministry of Defence Police | Military establishments, designated critical national infrastructure, Whitehall, MOD family quarters | 2,594[b] | £156.6[7] | - | 1971 | Military buildings, property, and employees (as well as other areas upon request by another police force, and in certain other circumstances), throughout England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland | Special police force |
Norfolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Norfolk | 1,684[1] | £177.2[2] | 5,371 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
North Wales Police | Principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, and Wrexham | 1,587[1] | £167.1[2] | 6,172 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Northamptonshire Police | Unitary authorities of North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire | 1,343[1] | £146.2[2] | 2,364 | 1966 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Northumbria Police | Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland | 3,309[1] | £307.1[2] | 5,553 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
North Yorkshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York | 1,513[1] | £166.2[2] | 8,310 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Nottinghamshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham | 2,077[1] | £224.8[2] | 2,160 | 1968 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 7,131[c] | £1077.4 (£1.1 billion)[9] | 13,843 | 2001 | Northern Ireland | Territorial police force |
Police Scotland | Scotland | 17,170[d] | £1,064.8 (£1.1 billion)[11] | 78,772 | 2013 | Scotland | Territorial police force |
South Wales Police | Principal areas of Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, and the Vale of Glamorgan | 3,081[1] | £315.8[2] | 2,074 | 1969 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
South Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire | 2,574[1] | £282.1[2] | 1,552 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Staffordshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent | 1,681[1] | £211.1[2] | 2,713 | 1968 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Suffolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk | 1,240[1] | £135.1[2] | 3,801 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Surrey Police | Non-metropolitan county of Surrey | 1,993[1] | £249.4[2] | 1,663 | 1851 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Sussex Police | Non-metropolitan counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and unitary authority of Brighton and Hove | 2,799[1] | £309.9[2] | 3,783 | 1968 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Thames Valley Police | Non-metropolitan counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes, Reading, Slough, Wokingham, West Berkshire, and Windsor and Maidenhead | 4,415[1] | £456.7[2] | 5,742 | 1968 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Warwickshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire | 1,034[1] | £109.9[2] | 1,975 | 1840 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
West Mercia Police | Non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire and unitary authorities of Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin | 2,256[1] | £236.5[2] | 7,408 | 1967 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
West Midlands Police | Metropolitan county of the West Midlands | 6,846[1] | £620.4[2] | 902 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
West Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire | 5,391[1] | £485.0[2] | 2,029 | 1974 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Wiltshire Police | Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,019[1] | £127.7[2] | 3,485 | 1839 | England and Wales | Territorial police force |
Total | — | 153,002 | £15,832 | — | — | — | — |
- ^ Number of police officers as of November 2016.[4]
- ^ Number of police officers is measured as full-time equivalent (FTE) for 31 March 2017.[6]
- ^ Number of police officers is measured as full-time equivalent (FTE) as of 1 May 2018.[8]
- ^ Number of police officers is measured as full-time equivalent (FTE) for 31 March 2018.[10]
List of Territoral Police Forces by Official Region
London
• Metropolitan Police
• City of London Police
South East of England
• Thames Valley Police
• Surrey Police
• Sussex Police
• Kent Police
• Hampshire Constabulary
East of England
• Hertfordshire Police
• Bedfordshire Police
• Essex Police
• Cambridgeshire Constabulary
• Suffolk Constabulary
• Norfolk Constabulary
South West of England
• Avon and Somerset Police
• Gloucestershire Police
• Wiltshire Police
• Dorset Police
• Devon and Cornwall Police
West Midlands of England
• West Midlands Police
• Staffordshire Police
• Warwickshire Police
• West Mercia Police
East Midlands of England
• Northamptonshire Police
• Nottinghamshire Police
• Derbyshire Constabulary
• Leicestershire Police
• Lincolnshire Police
Yorkshire and the Humber
• South Yorkshire Police
• West Yorkshire Police
• Humberside Police
• North Yorkshire Police
North East of England
• Northumbria Police
• Durham Constabulary
• Cleveland Police
North West of England
• Greater Manchester Police
• Cheshire Constabulary
• Lancashire Constabulary
• Merseyside Police
• Cumbria Police
Wales
• Gwent Police
• South Wales Police
• Dyfed-Powys Police
• North Wales Police
Scotland
Northern Ireland
• Police Service of Northern Ireland
See also
- List of defunct law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom
- Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq "Police workforce, England and Wales: 30 September 2020". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Figure includes cost of the Police and Crime Commissioner for each force, or equivalent. "Police Funding for England & Wales 2015-2021 (Statistical Bulletin 16/20)" (PDF). Home Office. July 2020. p. 14. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "Policing Great Britain's Rail Network: Forcewide and Divisional Plans 2020/21" (PDF). British Transport Police Authority. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "CNC Workforce 2016 - a Freedom of Information request to Civil Nuclear Constabulary". WhatDoTheyKnow. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ FY 2019-20. "Civil Nuclear Police Authority Annual Report & Accounts 2019/20" (PDF). Civil Nuclear Police Authority. p. 25. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "Freedom of Information Act 2000: Police Numbers" (PDF). Ministry of Defence Police.
- ^ "Ministry of Defence Police Annual Business Plan 2020/21" (PDF). Ministry of Defence Police. p. 20. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "Strength of Police Service Statistics". www.psni.police.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ "Annual Policing Plan for Northern Ireland 2019-20" (PDF). Northern Ireland Policing Board. p. 31. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "Police Scotland Officer Numbers". Police Scotland. Scottish Police Services Authority. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ "Scottish Police Authority Three Year Financial Plan 2018/19 to 2020/21". Police Scotland. Scottish Police Authority. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
External links
- Police.uk – Information about crime and policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- List of UK police forces from Police.uk
- Police forces - Information about area size for police force