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Territorial police force South Yorkshire Police: Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire: 3,022 [1] £282.1 [2] 1,552: 1974 Yorkshire and the Humber: England and Wales: Territorial police force Staffordshire Police: County of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent: 1,913 [1] £211.1 [2] 2,713: 1968 West Midlands: England and Wales ...
In 2013, the 8 territorial police forces in Scotland were merged into a single Scottish police force, named "The Police Service of Scotland", or colloquially Police Scotland. Merging these forces had been first mooted in 2010, and was supported by the Scottish National Party , Scottish Labour Party and Scottish Conservative Party ahead of the ...
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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Police forces of British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (3 C, 20 P) Police forces of England (7 C, 53 P) Police forces of Northern Ireland (3 C, 5 P)
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]
Derbyshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Derbyshire, England. The force covers an area of over 1,000 square miles (3,000 km 2) with a population of just under one million. [4]
By comparison, in 2010, the force had 3,748 police officers, 337 PCSOs and 2,424 police staff. The force has reduced its workforce by 23% since 2010, compared to the national average of 15%. This has led to some criticism from various sources around central government funding for the force. [61] [62] [63]