Police force
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Introduction
- Police forces or constabularies are responsible for operational policing matters
- There is a dedicated list of all police forces in the UK listed on WhatDoTheyKnow.com
Police forces in England and Wales
FOIA Schedule 1 lists:
- 59 - A chief officer of police of a police force in England or Wales.
Section 101 of the Police Act 1996 defines "chief officer of police" to mean one of:
- the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
- the Commissioner of Police for the City of London
- the chief constable of a police area, namely:
- Avon and Somerset
- Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cleveland
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon and Cornwall
- Dorset
- Durham Constabulary
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Greater Manchester
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Humberside
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Northumbria
- North Yorkshire
- Nottinghamshire
- South Yorkshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Thames Valley
- Warwickshire
- West Mercia
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
- Dyfed Powys
- Gwent
- North Wales
- South Wales
Police Forces in Scotland
Scotland has a single territorial police force, the Police Service of Scotland.
- The following support services are all covered by FOI apart from ACPOS:
- Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS)
- Forensic Services
- Information Services – Criminal Justice
- Information Services – ICT
- Scottish Police College
Police Forces in Northern Ireland
- 61 - The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
Non-geographic Police Forces
FOIA Schedule I includes:
- 62 - The British Transport Police
- 63 - The Ministry of Defence Police established by section 1 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987
- 63B - The chief constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary
However there are other non-geographic police forces:
- Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA)
- Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
- UK National Wildlife Crime Unit
Armed forces police
(Not to be confused with Ministry of Defence police.)
- Royal Navy police (see Royal Navy)
- Royal Marines Discipline (see Royal Marines)
- Royal Military Police (see British Army)
- Royal Air Force Police (see Royal Air Force )
Civilian police forces associate with Ministry of Defence
In addition to the Ministry of Defence police noted above:
- Gibraltar Defence Police[1]
- Northern Ireland Security Guard Service (NISGS) - part of the Ministry of Defence[2]
- Sovereign Base Areas Police[3]
Ports, Waterways, Tunnels and Airport Police
Airport police
Port police
- Belfast Harbour Police
- Port of Bristol Police
- Port of Dover Police
- Port of Falmouth Police
- Port of Felixstowe Police
- Port of Larne Police
- Port of Liverpool Police
- Port of Portland Police
- Port of Tilbury Police
- Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Harbour Police
Tunnels police
- Mersey Tunnels Police (see: Merseytravel)
Waterways
- British Waterways enforcement officers (each of the regional waterway units has an enforcement team)
- Broads authority - river control
Park police
- Epping Forest Keepers (see: City of London Corporation)
- Hammersmith and Fulham Parks Police (see: Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council)
- Hampstead Heath Constabulary (see: City of London Corporation)
- Hillingdon Parks Patrol Service (see: Hillingdon Borough Council)
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Parks Police (see Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
- Wandsworth Parks Police (see: Wandsworth Borough Council)
Market police
The City of London market constabularies:
- Billingsgate Market Constabulary[4]
- New Spitalfields Market Constabulary[5]
- Smithfield Market Constabulary[6]
Ceremonial constabularies
Cathedral constabulary
- Chester Cathedral Constables
- Liverpool Cathedral’s constabulary[7]
- York Minster Police
Kew Constabulary
- Kew Constabulary (see: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
University constabulary
Bodies with limited police powers
- Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
- Historic Scotland (In Holyrood Park, the powers of a Royal Parks constable are now reserved to some staff of Historic Scotland)
- Independent Police Complaints Commission
- Railway companies have certain powers of detention.
- Serious Organised Crime Agency
- UK Border Agency
Persons with special powers of arrest
- Church Wardens (Church of England) [8]
Bodies associated with policing that are not polices forces
- The Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (ACPO)
- Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
- National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit
The above are not normally considered to be police forces in their own right.
