| Gwent Police Heddlu Gwent |
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| Badge of the Gwent Police. | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1967 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Gwent in the country of Wales, United Kingdom |
| Gwent Police area within Wales | |
| Size | 1,554 km² |
| Population | 556,600 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Overviewed by | Gwent Police Authority |
| Headquarters | Croesyceiliog |
| Sworn members | 1,453 |
| Agency executive | Carmel Napier, Chief Constable |
| Divisions |
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 22 |
| Website | |
| www.gwent.police.uk | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
Gwent Police (Welsh: Heddlu Gwent) is the territorial police force responsible for policing the local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen in southeast Wales.
It was formed in 1967 by the amalgamation of Monmouthshire Constabulary and Newport Borough Police. In 1974 its area was realigned to cover the new administrative county of Gwent. In 1996, the force's area was expanded to cover the former Rhymney Valley district area as a consequence of it becoming part of the Caerphilly county borough, in order to incorporate the entirety of the county borough in the police area.
The Force has its headquarters at Croesyceiliog in Cwmbran. The Chief Constable is Carmel Napier.
In 2009 Gwent Police worked with film maker Peter Watkins-Hughes to create the short film Cow as part of a campaign to stop texting while driving.[1] The film earned honours in the Advertising Age's weekly Creativity Top 5 video.[2] and became an overnight worldwide internet hit after being shown on the USA The Today Show television show.[3]