Staffordshire Police
| Staffordshire, West Midlands Police | |
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Logo of the Staffordshire, West Midlands Police
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1968 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Staffordshire, UK |
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| Map of Staffordshire, West Midlands Police's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 2,713 |
| Population | approx. 1,062,500 |
| General nature |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Weston Road, Stafford |
| Sworn members |
1,829 (of which 429 are Special Constables) |
| Police and Crime Commissioner responsible | Matthew Ellis |
| Agency executive | Jane Sawyers, Chief Constable |
| Divisions |
Four
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 19 |
| Website | |
| www |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
1,829 (of which 429 are Special Constables)
Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England. It is made up of eleven Local Policing Teams, whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authorities within Staffordshire.
A combined force covering Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, called Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent Constabulary, was established on 1 January 1968, as a merger of the Staffordshire County Police and Stoke-on-Trent City Police. This force lost areas to the new West Midlands Police in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and adopted a shorter name.
Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, it would have merged with Warwickshire Constabulary, West Mercia Constabulary and West Midlands Police to form a single strategic force for the West Midlands region. However these plans have not been taken forward largely due to public opposition.
For 2005/06 Staffordshire police topped the Home Office chart as being the best performing police force in England and Wales.
Staffordshire Police is one of three forces involved in the Central Motorway Police Group along with West Midlands Police and West Mercia Police. This unit provides roads policing for the motorway network in the West Midlands (mainly M5, M6 and M42). Staffordshire Police has no other roads policing capacity; this was disbanded in 1999 during the major force reorganisation that also saw the mounted branch disbanded. The Force shares air support with the adjoining West Mercia Constabulary which forms the Central Counties Air Operations Unit. based at Wolverhampton Airport in South Staffordshire.
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