Cleveland Police
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Logo of the Cleveland Police
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| Motto | None as of 2015 |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1 April, 1974 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Employees | 2067 |
| Annual budget | £95.4 million |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Cleveland in the country of England, UK |
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| Map of police area | |
| Size | 595 km² |
| Population | 554,000 |
| Legal jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Constituting instrument | Police Act 1996 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Middlesbrough |
| Police Officers | 1,654 |
| Police Community Support Officers | 170 |
| Police and Crime Commissioner responsible | Barry Coppinger, (L) |
| Agency executive | Iain Spittal, Chief Constable |
| Local Policing Areas | Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough and |
| Website | |
| www.cleveland.police.uk | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
Cleveland Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the area of former county of Cleveland in north east England. The Cleveland Police area covers approximately 230 square miles (600 km2) and has a population of over 554,000.
As of April 2011, the force employed 1,654 sworn police officers, 412 police staff and 170 police community support officers (PCSOs).
Cleveland Police area is divided into four local policing areas (LPAs), previously known as districts, which are coterminous with the four unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and . These LPAs are split between North and South of the River Tees for operational purposes. The force is responsible for policing a predominantly urban, densely populated area, closely resembling metropolitan authorities in socio-economic characteristics and policing needs.
The Cleveland Criminal Justice Area is a major production centre for the chemical industry, which results in the large-scale transport by road, rail and sea of hazardous substances. The chemical industry remains a key economic factor and presents the force, other emergency services and partners with a significant major incident risk.
The force was established as Cleveland Constabulary on 1 April 1974, covering the newly created county of Cleveland (which was abolished on 1 April 1996, being replaced with the four unitary authorities). It was renamed Cleveland Police, from Cleveland Constabulary.
It is a successor to the Teesside Constabulary, and also the York and North East Yorkshire Police, which existed before 1974, and also took over part of Durham Constabulary. The police area is the second smallest geographically, after the area covered by the City of London Police.
Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, a proposal for a merger with Northumbria Police and Durham Constabulary to form a single strategic police force for the North East England was suggested but there was no support for this. Cleveland Police favours merging with the southern area of Durham Constabulary. As of July 2006, the plans to merge Cleveland, Durham and Northumbria together were scrapped.
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