43-608: Suffolk Police may refer to: Suffolk Constabulary , East Anglia, England Suffolk County Sheriff's Department , in Massachusetts Suffolk County Police Department , in New York Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Suffolk Police . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
86-535: A borough force. In 1857 Bury St Edmunds Borough Police merged with West Suffolk Constabulary and Beccles Borough Police merged with East Suffolk Constabulary . In 1869, East Suffolk and West Suffolk Constabularies merged to form Suffolk Constabulary (excluding the Borough of Ipswich) under new Chief Constable Major Clement Henry John Heigham. Under this new merged force, there were six superintendents, six inspectors, six sergeants and 72 constables. Following
129-413: A county borough did not have a separate commission of assize , oyer and terminer and jury service, or gaol delivery, it was deemed to be part of one or more adjoining counties for those purposes. The Act also provided for certain financial adjustments between county boroughs and adjoining counties. The Act did not in terms affect the status of cities and towns which were counties corporate . Most of
172-520: A distinct county), were to become part of the county where they were situated. Section 49 allowed for the creation by provisional order of a Council for the Scilly Islands to be established as a unitary authority outside the administrative county of Cornwall. This was duly formed in 1890 as the Isles of Scilly Rural District. There were 36 urban sanitary districts which straddled counties prior to
215-402: A district council. The county and district councils were to consist partly of directly elected "elective councillors" and partly of "selected councillors", chosen by the elective councillors in a similar manner to aldermen in municipal boroughs . The counties to be used for local government were to be the historic counties of England and Wales . A county council was to be formed for each of
258-699: A majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party . As part of the price for this support the Liberal Unionists demanded that a bill be introduced placing county government under the control of elected councils, modelled on the borough councils introduced by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . Accordingly, the Local Government (England and Wales) Bill was introduced to
301-414: A network of cameras across the country, and they drive high performance, customised BMWs. The Sentinel teams provide enhanced coverage of Suffolk's road network to proactively disrupt serious and organised criminal activity as well as to increase police visibility. Sentinel officers also support the force's response policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams, and offer additional operational options, making use of
344-453: A number of joint stations, allowing for closer collaboration between the services. A number of the joint stations are also host to the East of England Ambulance Service . In 2020, Suffolk's Sentinel Teams were at the focus of a 10 part television series which aired on Dave. The Sentinel teams use state of the art Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology which provides instant access to
387-401: A population as 50,000, but which had very peculiar claims. He referred to the counties of cities. [...] Two or three of these cities had so small a population that he did not propose to deal with them in this way. The best course was to give the names of the cities which he proposed to include. They were Exeter, Lincoln, Chester, Gloucester, Worcester, and Canterbury." The effect of these changes
430-453: A ratio of "not more than" one alderman to six councillors. The councillors appointed the council's "Chairman instead of mayor" and Vice Chairman, who had a one-year term of office and could be reappointed. As to natural persons section 1 of the Act states every such council shall "consist of the chairman, aldermen, and councillors". The Chairman would upon (this ex officio , by virtue of office)
473-423: A single county. The ten cities first identified to be dealt with as separate counties were Liverpool , Birmingham , Manchester , Leeds , Sheffield , Bristol , Bradford , Nottingham , Kingston-on-Hull , and Newcastle upon Tyne . Existing urban and rural sanitary districts, created in 1872, were to be redesignated as urban and rural districts. Urban such districts that straddled counties became destined for
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#1732791407433516-663: A wide range of proactive policing tactics and technology. Suffolk Constabulary gained widespread attention in December 2006, when it began to investigate the murder of five women working as prostitutes in the Ipswich area. The murders generated media interest both nationally and internationally. The inquiry was the largest mounted by Suffolk Police in its history. The disappearance of Corrie McKeague launched another unusually large investigation, involving officers from other constabularies and civilian volunteers. Since 2012,
559-485: Is responsible for Sizewell A & B , on the East Suffolk coastline. Suffolk is home to a number of major Army, RAF and USAF military bases, of which it works closely with. These include Wattisham Air Station , Mildenhall and Lakenheath . Created in 2010, ERSOU is funded by the seven police forces that make up the eastern region, with Bedfordshire Police being the lead force. It is primarily responsible for
602-661: Is the territorial police force responsible for policing Suffolk in East Anglia , England. The force serves a population of 761,000 in a mostly rural area of 1,466 square miles (3,796 km ), including 49 miles of coastline and the Southern part of the Broads National Park . Headquartered in Martlesham , Suffolk is responsible for Ipswich , Lowestoft , Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe . As of March 2023,
645-495: The Cinque Ports and Staffordshire Potteries were not successful. The normal population threshold for county borough status was lowered twice, firstly to 100,000, then to 50,000. A number of smaller counties corporate were also given county borough status. Mr Ritchie conceded on 8 June: "Now that they had gone down so far in population as 50,000 there arose a question as to the admission of boroughs which had not so large
688-727: The House of Commons on 19 March 1888, by the President of the Local Government Board , Charles Ritchie . The Bill proposed the creation of elected county councils to take over the administrative functions of the magistrates of the Quarter Sessions courts, that ten large cities should be "counties of themselves" for the purposes of local government and that each county was to be divided into urban and rural districts, based on existing sanitary districts , governed by
731-439: The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 , which required local councils to appoint paid constable to keep the peace. Sudbury followed suit in 1835, along with Eye in 1840 and Southwold in 1844 each with their own borough police forces. Lowestoft and Dunwich also formed borough police forces around this time. Ipswich Borough Police on its formation had a strength of 3 inspectors and 15 constables. They were headquartered at
774-626: The Police Act 1964 , East Suffolk Constabulary , West Suffolk Constabulary and Ipswich Borough Police merged to form Suffolk Constabulary . Following the merger, there were 957 officers in Suffolk Constabulary. Following the merger, questions were being raised regarding the cost effectiveness of the Suffolk Cadet Force, where young cadets would eventually become constables. The last cadet to join under this scheme
817-673: The Port of Felixstowe , the largest shipping container port in Britain. There are 1,106 police constables (PC's) in Suffolk (with the remainder being officers of the rank sergeant and above). This accounts for 145 police constables per 100,000 population. 302 officers are assigned to neighbourhood policing whilst 357 are assigned to incident/response management. In conjunction with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary , Suffolk
860-553: The UK Prime Minister announced that 20,000 new police officers would be recruited as part of a national uplift programme. Suffolk was allocated 179 of those new officers, which would bring the force strength up to more than 1,400 police officers by 2023. In 2020, Suffolk recruited more female officers than male officers, being one of only eight forces in the UK to achieve this. In 2022, Suffolk begun training recruits under
903-502: The ridings of Yorkshire and the three divisions of Lincolnshire ( Holland , Kesteven and Lindsey ). In addition a new County of London was to be formed from the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . This would have led to the creation of fifty-seven county councils. The boundaries of the counties were to be those used for parliamentary purposes, adjusted to include urban sanitary districts on county borders within
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#1732791407433946-483: The "selected councillors" became "county aldermen". The government withdrew the sections relating to the creation of district councils, which were eventually brought into existence by the Local Government Act 1894 . Members of both houses made representations on behalf of counties and boroughs, and this led to an increase in the number of local authorities. Attempts to create administrative counties for
989-430: The Act. These included: County borough corporations also exercised these powers, in addition to those of a municipal borough. Control of the county police was to be exercised jointly by the quarter sessions and the county council through a standing joint committee. The committees were replaced by police authorities by the Police Act 1964 . Counties were also used as areas for administering justice and organisation of
1032-588: The Militia Act 1882 which was left in force, with the exception that if the boundaries of an administrative county changed then so too did any lieutenancy, shrieval or judicial area to match. Whilst schedule 3 of the Act identified that four of the county boroughs (Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Stockport and York) should be deemed to lie in more than one county for the purposes of the Act, those purposes did not include lieutenancy, but were instead concerned with certain financial matters. For lieutenancy purposes, Bristol
1075-419: The combined Regional Organised Crime Unit and Counter Terrorism Policing. Norfolk Constabulary and Suffolk Constabulary have collaborated numerous services together since 2010. An extensive programme of collaborative work has already delivered a number of joint units and departments in areas such as Major Investigations, Protective Services, Custody, Transport, HR, Finance and ICT. In 2020/21, £20 million
1118-547: The counties corporate became county boroughs and therefore administrative counties of themselves, but while other county boroughs continued to be part of their existing counties for all other purposes, that did not apply to existing counties corporate. Those that did not become county boroughs became part of adjacent administrative counties but retained their existing judicial functions and shrievalties. The Act did not change which counties, ridings and counties corporate were included in each lieutenancy area; those were already set by
1161-481: The county for the purpose of the election of county councillors became fixed, under a key definition of the Act, "as electoral divisions and not wards", and "one county councillor only shall be elected for each". Following the election, the county councillors then elected county aldermen, there being one alderman for every three councillors. The London County Council had its own section of the Act, prescribing two councillors to be elected for each Commons constituency, and
1204-457: The county with the bulk of their population as at the 1881 census , by enlarging the latter. Existing rural sanitary districts so straddling were to split on county lines to form rural districts. There were a large number of changes to the Bill as it passed through parliament. The terms administrative county and county borough were introduced to designate the new areas of local government, while
1247-412: The death of Major Heigham, the two forces separated again in 1899. In 1889 Southwold Borough Police merged with East Suffolk Constabulary , following the Local Government Act 1888 . Throughout its history it had a strength of a single constable. The people of Southwold didn't want anyone to look after them and reportedly only had one constable so as to look after the tourists. In 1967, following
1290-458: The force has a strength of approximately 1,399 police officers, 116 special constables , 917 police staff/designated officers, 33 PCSO's and 123 police support volunteers. The Chief Constable is currently Rachel Kearton, and the Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore (Conservative). Ipswich , Bury St Edmunds , Beccles and Orford formed their own borough police forces in 1836 following
1333-483: The force has been overseen by Tim Passmore (Conservative) who is the Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner . Since 2022, the chief constable is Rachel Kearton. Suffolk Constabulary's budget for 2023/2024 is £157 million, with £88 million being government funded and £69 million precept (council tax) funded). Local Government Act 1888 The Local Government Act 1888 ( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41)
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1376-398: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suffolk_Police&oldid=1060692379 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Suffolk Constabulary Suffolk Constabulary
1419-414: The militia. The act adjusted the boundaries for the purposes of " sheriff , lieutenant , custos rotulorum , justices, militia, coroner, or other" , ensuring the judicial definitions of the counties matched groups of the administrative counties and county boroughs. The counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Yorkshire were undivided so far as they were one county at
1462-495: The new Police Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF), which sees a partnership of training with Anglia Ruskin University . Suffolk Constabulary is responsible for policing Suffolk's 4 major settlements, Ipswich , Lowestoft , Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe . It is also responsible for Suffolk's 49 miles of coastline, along with many rivers, including the southern Broads National Park . It also has responsibility for
1505-441: The passing of the Act. The three ridings of Yorkshire and the three parts of Lincolnshire therefore retained their status. County boroughs were to be administrative counties of themselves. The Act provided that each county borough that had previously been part of a county (i.e., was not a county corporate) should continue to be part of that county for non-administrative purposes, notably judicial functions and lieutenancy. If
1548-438: The purposes of lieutenancy, a situation which persisted until the major reforms of 1974. Under section 48 of the Act all liberties and franchises, with the exception of those that became separate administrative counties, merged with the county they formed part of for parliamentary elections. The Cinque Ports , together with "the two ancient towns and their members" (which for some purposes, such as lieutenancy , were considered
1591-454: The selecting of that person (co-option) be entitled to be a Justice of the Peace but needed take the oaths of that office "before acting as such justice", aside from the oath as to having local real estate as they had already met the equivalent requirement to become a councillor or alderman. The powers and responsibilities transferred from the quarter sessions to the councils were enumerated in
1634-499: The town hall. In 1862 Ipswich Borough Police issued whistles to all its officers (much earlier than other forces) due to frequent assaults of officers at Ipswich Docks. In 1863 the force replaced top hats with helmets and badges. Following the County Police Act 1839 , East Sufolk Constabulary was created in 1840, followed by West Suffolk Constabulary in 1845 to cover the rural parts of the county not already covered by
1677-667: Was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales . It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London , which came into existence on 21 March at the request of the London County Council . Following the 1886 general election , a Conservative administration headed by Lord Salisbury was formed. However the Conservatives did not have
1720-429: Was in 1982, where the program was ended. In 2006, Suffolk Constabulary merged the role of traffic warden with that of PCSO. Proposals announced by the then Home Secretary Charles Clarke in 2006 would have seen the force merge with neighbouring forces Norfolk Constabulary and Cambridgeshire Constabulary to form a strategic police force for East Anglia . However, the proposals were later abandoned. In 2019,
1763-580: Was saved due to the collaboration for Suffolk. The 7 Force Collaboration Programme includes Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Hertfordshire , Norfolk , Suffolk, Essex and Kent police forces. This strategic collaboration programme was established in 2015 to develop and implement successful collaborative solutions to protect the frontline local delivery of policing. It collaborates on areas including Procurement, Training, Firearms, Driver Management, Digital Assets, Vetting and Forensics, along with ERSOU. The police and Suffolk Fire & Rescue share
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1806-590: Was solely in Gloucestershire, and York was solely in the West Riding. The county borough of Great Yarmouth did straddle Norfolk and Suffolk for judicial and lieutenancy purposes after the new county councils came into force, but only for two years; it was placed entirely in Norfolk in 1891. After 1891 Stockport was therefore the only county borough to straddle two counties (Cheshire and Lancashire) for
1849-508: Was to increase the number of county boroughs from ten to fifty-nine. With a population of around 50,000 at the 1881 census, the City of London was initially proposed for county borough status. These were subject to triennial elections, the first taking place in January 1889. Those elected in 1889 were known as "provisional" councils until coming into their powers on 1 April. The divisions of
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