Wells City Police was the police force responsible for policing the city of

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between 1836 and 1856. Wells was one of the original 178 boroughs named in the

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which required boroughs to appoint a watch committee with a duty to appoint sufficient numbers of constables. As a result, Wells City Police came into existence on 1 February 1836 with four constables to patrol the city. A government report in 1851 outlined that the force still only had four constables to police the city at an annual cost of £119, 8 shillings and 8 pence. The county in which Wells is situated,

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, had no modern police force until 1 September 1856 when

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was formed. Wells City Police was consolidated into the new Somerset Constabulary within a matter of weeks on 14 October 1856. Today, Wells is policed by the successor of Somerset Constabulary,

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