List of police forces of the United Kingdom
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List of police forces of the United Kingdom

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Force	Area responsible for	Number of police officers	Budget (millions)	Area size (km²)	Formed	Legal jurisdiction	Type

Avon and Somerset Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Somerset and unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire	2,630	£285.0	4,777	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Bedfordshire Police	Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton	1,136	£91.2	1,024	1966	England and Wales	Territorial police force

British Transport Police	National Rail network, Docklands Light Railway, Glasgow Subway, London Underground, Midland Metro, Tramlink and the Sunderland line of the Tyne and Wear Metro	3,028	£187.7	1948 as BTCP	On railway land, request from another police force and certain other circumstances, in England, Wales and Scotland only	Special police force

Cambridgeshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire and unitary authority of Peterborough	1,332	£116.0	3,389	1965	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Cheshire Constabulary	Unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington	2,010	£157.4	2,155	1857	England and Wales	Territorial police force

City of London Police	City of London	676	£62.9	2.6	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Civil Nuclear Constabulary	Civilian nuclear facilities	1,310	£51.0	2005	Civilian nuclear facilities (and up to 5 km of those), when guarding nuclear material, and when on business relevant to nuclear material	Special police force

Cleveland Police	Unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees	1,274	£119.7	597	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Cumbria Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria	1,108	£94.0	6,768	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Derbyshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire and unitary authority of Derby	1,740	£151.6	2,625	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Devon and Cornwall Police	Non-metropolitan county of Devon and unitary authorities of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Plymouth and Torbay	2,921	£256.8	10,270	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Dorset Police	Non-metropolitan county of Dorset and unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole	1,276	£107.8	2,653	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Durham Constabulary	Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington	1,138	£112.3	2,676	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Dyfed-Powys Police	Principal areas of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys	1,159	£83.6	10,976	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Essex Police	Non-metropolitan county of Essex and unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock	2,857	£242.2	3,670	1969	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Gloucestershire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire	1,055	£95.7	3,150	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Greater Manchester Police	Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester	6,237	£524.1	1,276	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Gwent Police	Principal areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen	1,154	£110.7	1,555	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Hampshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Hampshire, unitary authorities of the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton	2,861	£281.9	4,149	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Hertfordshire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire	1,940	£171.4	1,643	1841	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Humberside Police	Unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire	1,665	£164.9	3,517	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Kent Police	Non-metropolitan county of Kent and unitary authority of Medway	3,255	£257.9	3,736	1857	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Lancashire Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire and unitary authorities of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool	2,850	£252.6	3,075	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Leicestershire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire and unitary authorities of Leicester and Rutland	1,772	£154.7	2,538	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Lincolnshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire	1,099	£90.4	5,921	1856	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Merseyside Police	Metropolitan county of Merseyside	3,484	£307.3	645	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Metropolitan Police Service	Metropolitan Police District (London region excluding the City of London)	30,871	£2,532.7 (£2.5 billion)	1,578	1829	England and Wales (includes Scotland and Northern Ireland for officers on close protection duties)	Territorial police force

Ministry of Defence Police	Military establishments	2,594	£363.4	1971	Military buildings, property & employees, on request by another police force and certain other circumstances	Special police force

Norfolk Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Norfolk	1,519	£131.3	5,371	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

North Wales Police	Principal areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham	1,487	£124.8	6,172	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Northamptonshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire	1,178	£110.3	2,364	1966	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Northumbria Police	Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and unitary authority of Northumberland	3,245	£270.1	5,553	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

North Yorkshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and unitary authority of York	1,320	£127.6	8,310	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Nottinghamshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire and unitary authority of Nottingham	1,842	£177.6	2,160	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Police Service of Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	6,621	£962.7	13,843	2001	Northern Ireland	Territorial police force

Police Scotland	Scotland	17,170	£1,064.8 (£1.1 billion)	78,772	2013	Scotland	National police force

South Wales Police	Principal areas of Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and the Vale of Glamorgan	2,890	£232.1	2,074	1969	England and Wales	Territorial police force

South Yorkshire Police	Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire	2,472	£239.6	1,552	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Staffordshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent	1,595	£170.9	2,713	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Suffolk Constabulary	Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk	1,096	£101.9	3,801	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Surrey Police	Non-metropolitan county of Surrey	2,009	£180.6	1,663	1851	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Sussex Police	Non-metropolitan counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and unitary authority of Brighton and Hove	2,550	£237.1	3,783	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Thames Valley Police	Non-metropolitan counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes, Reading, Slough, Wokingham, West Berkshire and Windsor and Maidenhead	4,077	£344.4	5,742	1968	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Warwickshire Police	Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire	823	£80.1	1,975	1840	England and Wales	Territorial police force

West Mercia Police	Non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire and unitary authorities of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin	2,017	£184.3	7,408	1967	England and Wales	Territorial police force

West Midlands Police	Metropolitan county of the West Midlands	6,535	£521.8	902	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

West Yorkshire Police	Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire	4,826	£396.0	2,029	1974	England and Wales	Territorial police force

Wiltshire Police	Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire	966	£108.0	3,485	1839	England and Wales	Territorial police force

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In terms of officer numbers, Merseyside Police force is the 8th largest out of the 48 police forces of the United Kingdom.

final_sentence: In terms of officer numbers, Merseyside Police force is the 8th largest out of the 48 police forces of the United Kingdom.