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, see List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom.

Map of territorial police areas

Table

Force	Area responsible for	Number of police officers	Budget (millions)	Area size (km²)	Formed	Legal jurisdiction	Type
Avon and Somerset Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire	3,302	£248.9	4,777	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Bedfordshire Police	Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton	1,207	£91.2	1,246	1966	England and Wales	Territorial police force
British Transport Police	National Rail network, Docklands Light Railway, Glasgow Subway, London Underground, Midland Metro, Tramlink and the Sunderland line of the Tyne and Wear Metro	2,835[SPF 1]	£187.7 [SPF 2]	-	1948	On railway land, request from another police force and certain other circumstances, in England, Wales and Scotland only	Special police force
Cambridgeshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and unitary authority of Peterborough	1,471	£116.0	3,389	1965	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Cheshire Constabulary	Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington	2,181	£157.4	2,155	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
City of London Police	City of London	852	£62.9	2.6	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Civil Nuclear Constabulary	Civilian nuclear facilities	774[SPF 3]	£51.0 [SPF 4]	-	2005	Civilian nuclear facilities (and up to 5 km of those), when guarding nuclear material, and when on business relevant to nuclear material	Special police force
Cleveland Police	Unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees	1,724	£119.7	597	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Cumbria Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria	1,238	£94.0	6,768	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Derbyshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby	2,074	£151.6	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	3,556	£256.8	10,270	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Dorset Police	Non-metropolitan county of Dorset and unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole	1,486	£107.8	2,653	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Durham Constabulary	Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington	1,507	£112.3	2,676	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Dyfed-Powys Police	Principal areas of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys	1,195	£83.6	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	3,606	£242.2	3,670	1969	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Gloucestershire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire	1,309	£95.7	3,150	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Greater Manchester Police	Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester	8,148	£524.1	1,276	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Gwent Police	Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen	1,437	£110.7	1,555	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Hampshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire, unitary authorities of the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton	3,748	£281.9	4,149	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Hertfordshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire	2,130	£171.4	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	2,058	£164.9	3,517	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Kent Police	Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway	3,787	£257.9	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	3,649	£252.6	3,075	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Leicestershire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire and unitary authorities of the Leicester and Rutland	2,317	£154.7	2,538	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Lincolnshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire	1,206	£90.4	5,921	1856	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Merseyside Police	Metropolitan county of Merseyside	4,516	£307.3	645	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Metropolitan Police Service	Metropolitan Police District (London region excluding the City of London)	33,367	£2,532.7 (£2.5 billion)	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	3,513[SPF 5]	£363.4 [SPF 6]	-	1971	Military buildings, property & employees, on request by another police force and certain other circumstances	Special police force
Norfolk Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Norfolk	1,662	£131.3	5,371	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force
North Wales Police	Principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham	1,590	£124.8	6,172	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Northamptonshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire	1,343	£110.3	2,364	1966	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Northumbria Police	Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland	4,187	£270.1	5,553	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
North Yorkshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York	1,486	£127.6	8,310	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Nottinghamshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham	2,409	£177.6	2,160	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Police Service of Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	7,410[NI 1]	£962.7 [NI 2]	13,843	2001	Northern Ireland	Territorial police force
Police Service of Scotland	Scotland	17,436 [S 1]	£1,200 (£1.2 billion)	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	3,148	£232.1	2,074	1969	England and Wales	Territorial police force
South Yorkshire Police	Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire	2,953	£239.6	1,552	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Staffordshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent	2,161	£170.9	2,713	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Suffolk Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk	1,246	£101.9	3,801	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Surrey Police	Non-metropolitan county of Surrey	1,890	£180.6	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	3,213	£237.1	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	4,434	£344.4	5,742	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Warwickshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire	973	£80.1	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	2,391	£184.3	7,408	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force
West Midlands Police	Metropolitan county of the West Midlands	7,596	£521.8	902	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
West Yorkshire Police	Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire	5,758	£396.0	2,029	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force
Wiltshire Police	Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire	1,181	£108.0 [E 1]	3,485	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

See also

• List of defunct law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom
• Law enforcement in the United Kingdom

References

England and Wales territorial police forces

Number of police officers is measured as Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) for 31 March 2010 and is from Home Office Statistical Bulletin 14/10.

Budget is valid for 2007-8 and is from the Home Office website.

1. "WILTSHIRE POLICE AUTHORITY SETS BUDGET FOR 2010-11". Wiltshire-pa.gov.uk. 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2011-07-22.

Police Scotland

Number of police officers is valid for December 2008 and is from the Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics Scotland.

Budgets were acquired on a force-by-force basis and are mainly for 2007-8.

1. http://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/

Police Service of Northern Ireland

1. "Strength of Police Service Statistics | Police Service of Northern Ireland". Psni.police.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
2. http://www.psni.police.uk/annual_budget_plan_0809.pdf

Special police forces

1. "> About us". Btp.police.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
3. "cnc_artwork 2009 060709.indd" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-07-22.
4. http://www.cnc.police.uk/files/strategic_policing_plan_2008_2011_revision_1.pdf
5. "Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2007 - 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-07-22.
6. "Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2007 - 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-07-22.

External links

• Police.uk – Information about crime and policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• List of UK police forces from Police.uk