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Two nations of the United Kingdom, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have national police forces. The third legal jurisdiction, made up of the nations of England and Wales is split up into a number of police forces. The breakdown of all territorial police forces across the United Kingdom by jurisdiction is as follows:
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.
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.
A police area is the area for which a territorial police force in the United Kingdom is responsible for policing. Every location in the United Kingdom has a designated territorial police force with statutory responsibility for providing policing services and enforcing criminal law, which is set out in the various police areas below.
A division was the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces. In major reforms of police organisation in the 1990s divisions of many forces were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs), although as of 2009 some forces continue to refer to them as divisions.
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List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories List of law enforcement agencies in Northern Ireland List of law enforcement agencies in Scotland
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 ...