Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Cambridgeshire Constabulary area
Area	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough UA
Size	3,389
Population	0.7 million
Operations
Formed	1965 (merger)
HQ	Huntingdon
Officers	1,418
Divisions	Northern, Central & Southern
Stations	15
Chief Constable	Julie Spence

Website	http://www.cambs.police.uk/

Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the Home Office police force in England responsible for policing the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire.

The force is divided into three basic command units (BCUs):

Peterborough (Northern),
Huntingdonshire (Central) and
Cambridge (Southern).

Force headquarters is situated at Hinchingbrooke Park on the outskirts of Huntingdon. There is a centralised call centre for the county at Thorpe Wood in Peterborough.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary was formed with its present boundaries in 1965 from a merger of five police forces:

Cambridge City Police,
the previous Cambridgeshire County Constabulary,
the Isle of Ely Constabulary,
Huntingdonshire Constabulary, and
the Peterborough Combined Police Force (itself created in 1947 from a merger of the Liberty of Peterborough Police and the City of Peterborough Police).

The new police force was named the Mid-Anglia Constabulary until 1974, when the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire was created by the Local Government Act 1972 with identical boundaries to the Mid-Anglia Constabulary area.^[1]

Proposals made by the Home Secretary in March 2006 would see the force merge with neighbouring Norfolk Constabulary and Suffolk Constabulary to form a strategic police force for East Anglia.^[2] In July 2006 however, the Home Office announced that all plans to merge police forces have been abandoned by John Reid the current Home Secretary.

There are a number of local telephone numbers to contact the force; the new single contact number is 0845 456 456 4.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary have recently appointed John Feavyour as the Deputy Chief Constable, following the appointment of Julie Spence as Chief Constable. Mark Hopkins continues to fill the vacancy of (Acting) Assistant Chief Constable.