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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

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[edit] Territorial police forces

[edit] England and Wales

Number of police officers and budget is valid for 2007-8 and is from the Home Office website.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] Special police forces

[2] ttp://www.centralscotland.police.uk/about/exec/docs/csp_annualreport_0708.pdf

[5] ttp://www.dumfriesandgalloway.police.uk/aboutUs/ourDocs/finance/accountsBudget/accounts/2008.pdf

[6] ttp://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

[7] ttp://www.grampian.police.uk/Pdf/Publications/Finance/Accounts_2007-08.PDF

[8] ttp://www.lbp.police.uk/publications/2008/Annual%20report/annual_report/performance/expenditure.htm

[11] ttp://www.northern.police.uk/NCReportEnglish.pdf

[16] ttp://www.strathclyde.police.uk/getFile.asp?FC_ID=4299&docID=6448

[17] ttp://www.tayside.police.uk/forcepub/annualreport2007-2008.pdf

[12] ttp://www.psni.police.uk/index/updates/updates_statistics/updates_strength_of_police_service_statistics.htm

[13] ttp://www.psni.police.uk/annual_budget_plan_0809.pdf

[0] ttp://www.btp.police.uk/about_us.aspx

[1] ttp://www.btpa.police.uk/Documents/Publications/BTP%20Accounts%20March%202008.pdf

[3] ttp://www.cnc.police.uk/about-the-cnc/what-do-the-cnc-do/whats-the-role-of-the-civil-nuclear-constabulary-where-do-they-work

[4] ttp://www.cnc.police.uk/files/strategic_policing_plan_2008_2011_revision_1.pdf

[9] ttp://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FF3B2E35-BB1D-49A2-8770-5AFBEF184193/0/mdpga_ceara0708.pdf

[10] ttp://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/FF3B2E35-BB1D-49A2-8770-5AFBEF184193/0/mdpga_ceara0708.pdf

[14] ttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/02/27103752/5

[15] ttp://www.scdea.police.uk/SDEA-Annual-Report/SCDEA%20Annual%20Report%2007-08.pdf

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