Devon & Cornwall Police
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Badge of the Devon and Cornwall Police
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| Motto | In Auxilium Omnium To the assistance of everybody |
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| Agency overview | |||||
| Formed | 1 April, 1967 | ||||
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| Employees | 6,067 | ||||
| Volunteers | 505 | ||||
| Annual budget | £256.8 million | ||||
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency | ||||
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| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Devon and Cornwall in the country of England, UK | ||||
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| Size | 3,961 square miles | ||||
| Population | 1.65 million | ||||
| Legal jurisdiction | England & Wales | ||||
| Constituting instrument | Police Act 1996 | ||||
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| Overviewed by | Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary/Independent Police Complaints Commission | ||||
| Headquarters | Middlemoor, Exeter | ||||
| Constables | 3,082 | ||||
| PCSOs | 354 | ||||
| Police and Crime Commissioner responsible | Alison Hernandez, (C) | ||||
| Agency executive | Shaun Sawyer, Chief Constable | ||||
| Basic Command Units | 4 | ||||
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| Stations | 49 | ||||
| Airbases | 1 Exeter Airport | ||||
| Helicopters | 1 Eurocopter EC145 | ||||
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| www.devon-cornwall.police.uk | |||||
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| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |||||
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Devon and Cornwall Police or Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England, including the unitary authority areas of Plymouth, Torbay and the Isles of Scilly.
The geographical area covered is the largest for any police force in England, and the fifth largest in the United Kingdom. The total resident population of the force area is approximately 1.5 million, with around 11 million visitors annually.
The force was formed on 1 April 1967 by the amalgamation of the Devon and Exeter Police, Cornwall County Constabulary and Plymouth City Police, these three constabularies were an amalgamation of 23 city and borough police forces that were absorbed between 1856 and 1947.
Bodmin Borough Police 1836 to 1865: Three constables were appointed on 1st January 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. They also acted as firemen. In 1865 a public inquiry was held on the matter of amalgamating Bodmin Borough Police with the Cornwall Constabulary. Although the proposal was unpopular, amalgamation took place on 21st October 1865.
Falmouth Borough Police 1836 to 1889: Six officers were appointed in 1836 comprising two serjeants-at-mace and three constables. In 1857, the force was led by an officer with the rank of superintendent with two constables in his charge. On 1st April 1889, the Falmouth Borough Police was amalgamated with the Cornwall Constabulary by virtue of section 35 of the Local Government Act 1888. The Act made it mandatory for all police forces covering a populace of less than 10,000 to merge with the county police.
Helston Borough Police 1851 to 1889: Although Helston was mandated to create an organised police force, it continued to appoint parish officers until the 1850s when the increase in population and crime rate demanded the appointment of a full time head constable and a handful of part-time constables. A popular pastime among drunken miners in Helston was the attempted strangulation of Head Constable Bishop, who found himself being throttled on many occasions while attempting to make arrests. The force was amalgamated with the Cornwall Constabulary in 1889.
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