Greater Manchester Police | |
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Badge of the Greater Manchester Police
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Abbreviation | GMP |
Agency overview | |
Formed | 1 April, 1974 |
Preceding agency | |
Employees | 11,045 |
Volunteers | 350 |
Annual budget | £524.1 million |
Legal personality | Non-government: Police force |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction | Greater Manchester, England, UK |
Map of Greater Manchester Police area | |
Size | 492 square miles (1,300 km2) |
Population | Approx. 2.7 million |
Legal jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Constituting instrument | |
General nature | • Local civilian agency |
Headquarters | Central Park, Northampton Road, Manchester |
Constables | 6,979 (of which 661 are special constables) |
Police Community Support Officers | 600 |
Mayor responsible | |
Agency executives | |
Divisions | 12 |
Stations | 62 |
Facilities | |
Panda cars |
Ford Focus Vauxhall Astra Hyundai i30 Peugeot 308 |
Pursuit vehicles |
Vauxhall Vectra C Volvo S60 BMW 3 Series BMW 5 Series |
Patrol vehicles |
Range Rover Volvo V70 BMW X5 Land Rover Discovery |
Website | |
www.gmp.police.uk |
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England. GMP is the fifth largest police service in the United Kingdom after the Metropolitan Police Service, Police Scotland, Police Service of Northern Ireland and West Midlands Police; and is the third largest force in England & Wales.
As of September 2017, Greater Manchester Police employed; 6,237 police officers, 512 Volunteer Special Constables, 606 Police Community Support Officers, and 2,961 members of police staff.The GMP headquarters are at Central Park, on Northampton Road, in the Newton Heath area of Manchester.
Greater Manchester Police was directly created from two recently amalgamated city police forces, Manchester and Salford Police and parts of what were Lancashire Constabulary, Cheshire Constabulary and West Yorkshire Constabulary on 1st April 1974. The city forces were Manchester Borough Police which formed in the late 1830s and Salford Borough Police which began in 1844. Upon Manchester gaining city status in 1853, its police force changed its name to Manchester City Police to reflect its status. In 1926, Salford also became a city, resulting in Salford Borough Police becoming Salford City Police. These two city forces operated until 1968 when, as a result of compulsory amalgamation, as per the Police Act 1964, Salford City Police merged with Manchester City Police, resulting in the new force of Manchester and Salford Police. This new force lasted only 6 years, when in 1974 the Local Government Act 1972 created the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester and with it, Greater Manchester Police. An increase of 284,241 acres in terms of policing area and 2,267,090 people over the abolished Manchester and Salford Police.