Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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Coverage
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Cambridgeshire Constabulary area
Area Cambridgeshire and Peterborough UA
Size 3,389 km²
Population 0.7 million
Operations
Formed 1965 (merger)
HQ Huntingdon
Budget £110.5m (2006/07)
Officers 1,402
Divisions Northern, Central & Southern
Stations
16
Chief Constable Julie Spence OBE
Website http://www.cambs.police.uk/

Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the Home Office police force in England responsible for policing the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, which nowadays cover the councils of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The Chief Constable is currently Julie Spence, with John Feavyour as Deputy Chief Constable (Support) and Mark Hopkins as Assistant Chief Constable (Operations).

The force is divided into three divisions, each based on the surrounding local district councils:—

The 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.

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[edit] History

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

  • Cambridge Borough (until 1951, then) 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 Constabulary and the City of Peterborough Constabulary).

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 then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, in March 2006 would have seen the force merge with neighbouring Norfolk Constabulary and Suffolk Constabulary to form a strategic police force for East Anglia.[2] While Norfolk & Cambridgeshire supported the proposal; Suffolk indicated it would have preferred a merger with Norfolk and Essex, although wanted to explore the viability of options other than merger. Essex Police expressed a preference to stand alone. In July 2006 however, the Home Office announced that all plans to merge police forces had been abandoned by the following home secretary, John Reid.

[edit] Police Authority

The police authority for Cambridgeshire Police, comprises 17 members. This is made up of nine district councillors, of which seven are nominated by Cambridgeshire County Council and two by Peterborough City Council, three magistrates, nominated by the county's Magistrates' Courts Committee; and five independent members, chosen from the community.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cambridgeshire Constabulary History The Badgers Lair (retrieved 11 December 2005)
  2. ^ Police forces 'to be cut to 24' BBC News, 20 March 2006 19:11 GMT
  3. ^ About the Authority Cambridgeshire Police Authority (retrieved 09 December 2007)

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