table of police forces in the United Kingdom
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.
Force | Area responsible for | Number of police officers | Budget (millions) | Area size (km²) | Country | Legal jurisdiction | Type |
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and districts of South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset | 3,264 | £282.7 [EW 1] | 4,777 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Bedfordshire Police | Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton | 1,242 | £103.1 [EW 2] | 1,246 | 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 | 2,652 [SPF 1] | £200.1 [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 | 1,441 | £130.5 [EW 3] | 3,389 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Central Scotland Police | Council areas of Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire | 844 | £63.1 [S 1] | 2,643 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Cheshire Constabulary | Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington | 2,803 | £177.2 [EW 4] | 2,155 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
City of London Police | City of London | 878 | £70.5 [EW 5] | 2.6 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Civil Nuclear Constabulary | Civilian nuclear facilities | 774 [SPF 3] | £78.5 [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 | 1,694 | £141.7 [EW 6] | 597 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Cumbria Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria | 1,220 | £103.6 [EW 7] | 6,768 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Derbyshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby | 2,074 | £175.6 [EW 8] | 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 | 3,526 | £304.0 [EW 9] | 10,270 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dorset Police | Non-metropolitan county of Dorset and unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole | 1,478 | £120.5 [EW 10] | 2,653 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | Council area of Dumfries and Galloway | 489 | £--.- [S 2] | 6,426 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Durham Constabulary | Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington | 1,463 | £121.4 [EW 11] | 2,676 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dyfed-Powys Police | Principal areas of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys | 1,175 | £94.7 [EW 12] | 10,976 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Essex Police | Non-metropolitan county of Essex | 3,639 | £269.0 [EW 13] | 3,670 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Fife Constabulary | Council area of Fife | 1,078 | £64.0 [S 3] | 1,325 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire | 1,295 | £106.4 [EW 14] | 3,150 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Grampian Police | Council areas of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray | 1,489 | £118.0 [S 4] | 8,737 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Greater Manchester Police | Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester | 7,976 | £585.2 [EW 15] | 1,276 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Gwent Police | Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen | 1,508 | £125.0 [EW 16] | 1,555 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Hampshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 3,702 | £314.1 [EW 17] | 4,149 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire | 2,092 | £190.6 [EW 18] | 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 | 2,001 | £188.4 [EW 19] | 3,517 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Kent Police | Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway | 3,741 | £287.8 [EW 20] | 3,736 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Lancashire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and unitary authorities of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen | 3,549 | £275.6 [EW 21] | 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 | 2,258 | £174.6 [EW 22] | 2,538 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Lincolnshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire | 1,197 | £120.2 [EW 23] | 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 | 2,856 | £---.- [S 5] | 6,456 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Merseyside Police | Metropolitan county of Merseyside | 4,414 | £350.2 [EW 24] | 645 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Metropolitan Police Service | Metropolitan Police District (region of Greater London excluding the City of London) | 32,900 | £3,572.3 (£3.6 billion) [EW 25] |
1,578 | England | England & Wales (includes Scotland and Northern Ireland for officers on close protection duties) | Territorial police force |
Ministry of Defence Police | Military establishments | 3,496 (2010) [SPF 5] | £249.5 [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 | 1,631 | £148.6 [EW 26] | 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 | 762 | £52.3 [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 | 1,558 | £155.6 [EW 27] | 6,172 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Northamptonshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire | 1,337 | £122.5 [EW 28] | 2,364 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Northumbria Police | Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland | 4,144 | £287.7 [EW 29] | 5,553 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
North Yorkshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York | 1,452 | £140.5 [EW 30] | 8,310 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Nottinghamshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham | 2,379 | £197.2 [EW 31] | 2,160 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 7765 [NI 1] | £1,154.5 [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] | £19.8 [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 | 3,108 | £276.2 [EW 32] | 2,074 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
South Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire | 2,977 | £256.6 [EW 33] | 1,552 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Staffordshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent | 2,116 | £198.3 [EW 34] | 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 | 7,948 | £447.6 [S 7] | 13,624 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Suffolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk | 1,272 | £125.5 [EW 35] | 3,801 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Surrey Police | Non-metropolitan county of Surrey | 1,864 | £213.2 [EW 36] | 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 | 3,177 | £305.9 [EW 37] | 3,783 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Tayside Police | Council areas of Angus, City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross | 1,215 | £88.9 [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 | 4,412 | £344.4 [EW 38] | 5,742 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Warwickshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire | 949 | £93.6 [EW 39] | 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 | 2,303 | £222.9 [EW 40] | 7,408 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
West Midlands Police | Metropolitan county of the West Midlands | 8,485 | £650.4 [EW 41] | 902 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
West Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire | 5,673 | £432.8 [EW 42] | 2,029 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Wiltshire Police | Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,138 | £106.9 [EW 43] | 3,485 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Number of police officers is measured in terms of Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) for 30 September 2010 and is from Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/11.
Budgets:
Number of police officers is valid for March 2011 and is from the Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics Scotland.
Budgets:
table of police forces in the United Kingdom
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.
Force | Area responsible for | Number of police officers | Budget (millions) | Area size (km²) | Country | Legal jurisdiction | Type |
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and districts of South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset | 3,264 | £282.7 [EW 1] | 4,777 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Bedfordshire Police | Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton | 1,242 | £103.1 [EW 2] | 1,246 | 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 | 2,652 [SPF 1] | £200.1 [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 | 1,441 | £130.5 [EW 3] | 3,389 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Central Scotland Police | Council areas of Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire | 844 | £63.1 [S 1] | 2,643 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Cheshire Constabulary | Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington | 2,803 | £177.2 [EW 4] | 2,155 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
City of London Police | City of London | 878 | £70.5 [EW 5] | 2.6 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Civil Nuclear Constabulary | Civilian nuclear facilities | 774 [SPF 3] | £78.5 [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 | 1,694 | £141.7 [EW 6] | 597 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Cumbria Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria | 1,220 | £103.6 [EW 7] | 6,768 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Derbyshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby | 2,074 | £175.6 [EW 8] | 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 | 3,526 | £304.0 [EW 9] | 10,270 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dorset Police | Non-metropolitan county of Dorset and unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole | 1,478 | £120.5 [EW 10] | 2,653 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary | Council area of Dumfries and Galloway | 489 | £--.- [S 2] | 6,426 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Durham Constabulary | Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington | 1,463 | £121.4 [EW 11] | 2,676 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Dyfed-Powys Police | Principal areas of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys | 1,175 | £94.7 [EW 12] | 10,976 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Essex Police | Non-metropolitan county of Essex | 3,639 | £269.0 [EW 13] | 3,670 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Fife Constabulary | Council area of Fife | 1,078 | £64.0 [S 3] | 1,325 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire | 1,295 | £106.4 [EW 14] | 3,150 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Grampian Police | Council areas of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray | 1,489 | £118.0 [S 4] | 8,737 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Greater Manchester Police | Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester | 7,976 | £585.2 [EW 15] | 1,276 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Gwent Police | Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen | 1,508 | £125.0 [EW 16] | 1,555 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Hampshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 3,702 | £314.1 [EW 17] | 4,149 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire | 2,092 | £190.6 [EW 18] | 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 | 2,001 | £188.4 [EW 19] | 3,517 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Kent Police | Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway | 3,741 | £287.8 [EW 20] | 3,736 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Lancashire Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and unitary authorities of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen | 3,549 | £275.6 [EW 21] | 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 | 2,258 | £174.6 [EW 22] | 2,538 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Lincolnshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire | 1,197 | £120.2 [EW 23] | 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 | 2,856 | £---.- [S 5] | 6,456 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Merseyside Police | Metropolitan county of Merseyside | 4,414 | £350.2 [EW 24] | 645 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Metropolitan Police Service | Metropolitan Police District (region of Greater London excluding the City of London) | 32,900 | £3,572.3 (£3.6 billion) [EW 25] |
1,578 | England | England & Wales (includes Scotland and Northern Ireland for officers on close protection duties) | Territorial police force |
Ministry of Defence Police | Military establishments | 3,496 (2010) [SPF 5] | £249.5 [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 | 1,631 | £148.6 [EW 26] | 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 | 762 | £52.3 [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 | 1,558 | £155.6 [EW 27] | 6,172 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Northamptonshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire | 1,337 | £122.5 [EW 28] | 2,364 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Northumbria Police | Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland | 4,144 | £287.7 [EW 29] | 5,553 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
North Yorkshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York | 1,452 | £140.5 [EW 30] | 8,310 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Nottinghamshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham | 2,379 | £197.2 [EW 31] | 2,160 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 7765 [NI 1] | £1,154.5 [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] | £19.8 [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 | 3,108 | £276.2 [EW 32] | 2,074 | Wales | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
South Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire | 2,977 | £256.6 [EW 33] | 1,552 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Staffordshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent | 2,116 | £198.3 [EW 34] | 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 | 7,948 | £447.6 [S 7] | 13,624 | Scotland | Scotland | Territorial police force |
Suffolk Constabulary | Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk | 1,272 | £125.5 [EW 35] | 3,801 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Surrey Police | Non-metropolitan county of Surrey | 1,864 | £213.2 [EW 36] | 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 | 3,177 | £305.9 [EW 37] | 3,783 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Tayside Police | Council areas of Angus, City of Dundee and Perth and Kinross | 1,215 | £88.9 [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 | 4,412 | £344.4 [EW 38] | 5,742 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Warwickshire Police | Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire | 949 | £93.6 [EW 39] | 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 | 2,303 | £222.9 [EW 40] | 7,408 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
West Midlands Police | Metropolitan county of the West Midlands | 8,485 | £650.4 [EW 41] | 902 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
West Yorkshire Police | Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire | 5,673 | £432.8 [EW 42] | 2,029 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Wiltshire Police | Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,138 | £106.9 [EW 43] | 3,485 | England | England & Wales | Territorial police force |
Number of police officers is measured in terms of Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) for 30 September 2010 and is from Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/11.
Budgets:
Number of police officers is valid for March 2011 and is from the Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics Scotland.
Budgets: