This table of police forces in the United Kingdom includes territorial police forces and special police forces. It does not include non-police law enforcement agencies or bodies of constables not constituted as police forces.
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| Force | Area responsible for | Number of police officers | Budget | Area size (km²) | Country | Legal jurisdiction | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon and Somerset Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and districts of South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset | 3,407 | £248.9 million | 4,777 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Bedfordshire Police | Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton | 1,207 | £91.2 million | 1,235 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| British Transport Police | National Rail network, London Underground system, Docklands Light Railway, Midland Metro, Croydon Tramlink, Glasgow Subway and the Sunderland line of the Tyne and Wear Metro | 2,835[SPF 1] | £187.7 million[SPF 2] | - | England, Wales and Scotland | On railway land, on request from another police force and certain other circumstances | Special police force |
| Cambridgeshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and unitary authority of Peterborough | 1,379 | £116.0 million | 3,389 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Central Scotland Police | Council areas of Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire | 836 | £53.6 million[S 1] | 2,643 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Cheshire Constabulary | Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington | 2,181 | £157.4 million | 2,343 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| City of London Police | City of London | 830 | £62.9 million | 2.6 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Civil Nuclear Constabulary | Civilian nuclear facilities | 750[SPF 3] | £51.0 million [SPF 4] | - | United Kingdom | 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, Stockton on Tees and Redcar and Cleveland | 1,692 | £119.7 million | 597 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Cumbria Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria | 1,246 | £94.0 million | 6,768 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Derbyshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby | 2,095 | £151.6 million | 2,625 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Devon and Cornwall Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Devon and unitary authorities of Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay and the Isles of Scilly | 3,529 | £256.8 million | 10,270 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Dorset Police | Non-metropolitan county of Dorset and unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole | 1,518 | £107.8 million | 2,653 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | Council area of Dumfries and Galloway | 517 | £34.9 million[S 2] | 6,426 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Durham Constabulary | Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington | 1,632 | £112.3 million | 2,676 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Dyfed-Powys Police | Principal areas of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys | 1,194 | £83.6 million | 10,976 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Essex Police | Non-metropolitan county of Essex | 3,385 | £242.2 million | 3,670 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Fife Constabulary | Council area of Fife | 1,066 | £74.4 million[S 3] | 1,325 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire | 1,353 | £95.7 million | 3,150 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Grampian Police | Council areas of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray | 1,483 | £91.5 million[S 4] | 8,737 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Greater Manchester Police | Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester | 8,034 | £524.1 million | 1,276 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Gwent Police | Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen | 1,487 | £110.7 million | 1,555 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Hampshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 3,912 | £281.9 million | 4,149 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Hertfordshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire | 2,162 | £171.4 million | 1,643 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Humberside Police | Unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire | 2,243 | £164.9 million | 3,517 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Kent Police | Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway | 3,718 | £257.9 million | 3,736 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Lancashire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and unitary authorities of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen | 3,675 | £252.6 million | 3,075 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Leicestershire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire and unitary authorities of the City of Leicester and Rutland | 2,241 | £154.7 million | 2,538 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Lincolnshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire | 1,201 | £90.4 million | 5,921 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Lothian and Borders Police | Council areas of City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. | 2,891 | £207.0 million[S 5] | 6,456 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Merseyside Police | Metropolitan county of Merseyside | 4,477 | £307.3 million | 645 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Metropolitan Police Service | Metropolitan Police District (region of Greater London excluding the City of London)) | 31,460 | £2,532.7 million | 1,578 | England | England & Wales (including Scotland and Northern Ireland when protecting people or property) | Territorial police force |
| Ministry of Defence Police | Military establishments | 3,513[SPF 5] | £363.4 million[SPF 6] | - | United Kingdom | Military buildings, property & employees, on request by another police force and certain other circumstances | Special police force |
| Norfolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Norfolk | 1,578 | £131.3 million | 5,371 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Northern Constabulary | Council areas of Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles), the Orkney Isles and the Shetland Isles | 747 | £35.5 million[S 6] | 31,186 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| North Wales Police | Principal areas of Wrexham, Conwy, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Gwynedd and the Isle of Anglesey | 1,579 | £124.8 million | 6,172 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| North Yorkshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York | 1,581 | £127.6 million | 8,310 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Northamptonshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire | 1,309 | £110.3 million | 2,364 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Northumbria Police | Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland | 3,983 | £270.1 million | 5,553 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Nottinghamshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham | 2,369 | £177.6 million | 2,160 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 7410[NI 1] | £962.7 million[NI 2] | 13,843 | Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | Territorial police force |
| Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency | National-level law enforcement in Scotland | 319[SPF 7] | £21.1 million[SPF 8] | - | Scotland | Scotland | Special police force |
| South Wales Police | Principal areas of Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea and the Vale of Glamorgan | 3,244 | £232.1 million | 2,074 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| South Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire | 3,201 | £239.6 million | 1,552 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Staffordshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent | 2,269 | £170.9 million | 2,713 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Strathclyde Police | Council areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire | 7,955 | £511.7 million[S 7] | 13,624 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
| Suffolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk | 1,319 | £101.9 million | 3,801 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Surrey Police | Non-metropolitan county of Surrey | 1,944 | £180.6 million | 1,663 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Sussex Police | Non-metropolitan counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and unitary authority of Brighton and Hove | 3,075 | £237.1 million | 3,783 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Tayside Police | Council areas of Angus, City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross | 1,180 | £83.6 million[S 8] | 7,528 | Scotland | Scotland | 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 | 4,186 | £344.4 million | 5,742 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Warwickshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire | 1,036 | £80.1 million | 1,975 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| West Mercia Police | Non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire and unitary authorities of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin | 2,486 | £184.3 million | 7,408 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| West Midlands Police | Metropolitan county of the West Midlands | 8,412 | £521.8 million | 902 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| West Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire | 5,822 | £396.0 million | 2,029 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
| Wiltshire Police | Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,210 | £96.0 million | 3,485 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
References
Territorial police forces
England and Wales
Number of police officers and budget is valid for 2007-8 and is from the Home Office website.
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.
- ^ http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/about/exec/docs/csp_annualreport_0708.pdf
- ^ http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.police.uk/aboutUs/ourDocs/finance/accountsBudget/accounts/2008.pdf
- ^ http://www.fife.police.uk/docs/Finance%202006-7%20Revenue%20Expenditure%2010092008%20gh0156%20sdpsrinsp.doc & http://www.fife.police.uk/docs/Finance%202006-7%20Capital%20Expenditure%2010092008%20gh0156%20sdpsrinsp.doc
- ^ http://www.grampian.police.uk/Pdf/Publications/Finance/Accounts_2007-08.PDF
- ^ http://www.lbp.police.uk/publications/2008/Annual%20report/annual_report/performance/expenditure.htm
- ^ http://www.northern.police.uk/NCReportEnglish.pdf
- ^ http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/getFile.asp?FC_ID=4299&docID=6448
- ^ http://www.tayside.police.uk/forcepub/annualreport2007-2008.pdf
Northern Ireland
- ^ http://www.psni.police.uk/index/updates/updates_statistics/updates_strength_of_police_service_statistics.htm
- ^ http://www.psni.police.uk/annual_budget_plan_0809.pdf
Special police forces
- ^ http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us.aspx
- ^ http://www.btpa.police.uk/Documents/Publications/BTP%20Accounts%20March%202008.pdf
- ^ http://www.cnc.police.uk/about-the-cnc/what-do-the-cnc-do/whats-the-role-of-the-civil-nuclear-constabulary-where-do-they-work
- ^ http://www.cnc.police.uk/files/strategic_policing_plan_2008_2011_revision_1.pdf
- ^ http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FF3B2E35-BB1D-49A2-8770-5AFBEF184193/0/mdpga_ceara0708.pdf
- ^ http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FF3B2E35-BB1D-49A2-8770-5AFBEF184193/0/mdpga_ceara0708.pdf
- ^ http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/02/27103752/5
- ^ http://www.scdea.police.uk/SDEA-Annual-Report/SCDEA%20Annual%20Report%2007-08.pdf
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