List of police forces of the United Kingdom

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

Table rows:
cells: 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 [1]
4,777
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Bedfordshire Police
Unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton
1,136
£91.2
1,024
1966
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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 [SPF 1]
-
1948 as BTCP
On railway land, request from another police force and certain other circumstances, in England, Wales and Scotland only
Special police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: City of London Police
City of London
676
£62.9
2.6
1839
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Civil Nuclear Constabulary
Civilian nuclear facilities
1,310
£51.0 [SPF 2]
-
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
cells: 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
cells: Cumbria Constabulary
Non-metropolitan county of Cumbria
1,108
£94.0
6,768
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: Durham Constabulary
Unitary authorities of County Durham and Darlington
1,138
£112.3
2,676
1839
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Dyfed-Powys Police
Principal areas of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys
1,159
£83.6
10,976
1968
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: Gloucestershire Constabulary
Non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire
1,055
£95.7
3,150
1839
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Greater Manchester Police
Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester
6,237
£524.1
1,276
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: Hertfordshire Constabulary
Non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire
1,940
£171.4
1,643
1841
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: Leicestershire Police
Non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire and unitary authorities of the Leicester and Rutland
1,772
£154.7
2,538
1967
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Lincolnshire Police
Non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire
1,099
£90.4
5,921
1856
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Merseyside Police
Metropolitan county of Merseyside
3,484
£307.3
645
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: Ministry of Defence Police
Military establishments
2,594
£363.4 [SPF 3]
-
1971
Military buildings, property & employees, on request by another police force and certain other circumstances
Special police force
cells: Norfolk Constabulary
Non-metropolitan county of Norfolk
1,519
£131.3
5,371
1839
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: Northamptonshire Police
Non-metropolitan county of Northamptonshire
1,178
£110.3
2,364
1966
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: Police Service of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
6,621
£962.7 [NI 1]
13,843
2001
Northern Ireland
Territorial police force
cells: Police Service of Scotland
Scotland
17,170
£1,200 (£1.2 billion)
78,772
2013
Scotland
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: South Yorkshire Police
Metropolitan county of South Yorkshire
2,472
£239.6
1,552
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: Suffolk Constabulary
Non-metropolitan county of Suffolk
1,096
£101.9
3,801
1967
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Surrey Police
Non-metropolitan county of Surrey
2,009
£180.6
1,663
1851
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: 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
cells: Warwickshire Police
Non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire
823
£80.1
1,975
1840
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: 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
cells: West Midlands Police
Metropolitan county of the West Midlands
6,535
£521.8
902
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: West Yorkshire Police
Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire
4,826
£396.0
2,029
1974
England and Wales
Territorial police force
cells: Wiltshire Police
Unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire
966
£108.0 [E 1]
3,485
1839
England and Wales
Territorial police force

Questions about this table:
originalText: what is the biggest police force in the uk
answer: answerTexts: Metropolitan Police Service