Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
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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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| * 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.
Since 15 November 2012 the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner is Tony Hogg. The police and crime commissioner is scrutinised by the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the local authorities in the police area. Before November 2012 the Devon and Cornwall Police Authority was the police governance.
The force is divided into three BCUs (Basic Command Units), each commanded by a Chief Superintendent. Each BCU is divided into large Geographic Areas, which are further sub-divided into Sectors, each with one or more police stations. This organisation is slightly different in Plymouth, which is divided directly into Sectors operating out of Plymouth's four police stations, and North and East Devon's Exeter Geographic Area, both of whose Sectors operate out of a single police station. Each Geographic Area is headed by a Superintendent and each Sector by an Inspector.
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