Birmingham Airport Police is a
defunct police force of the United Kingdom, formerly responsible for policing
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Airport , formerly ''Birmingham International Airport'', is an international airport located east-southeast of Birmingham city centre, west-northwest of Coventry slightly north of Bickenhill village, in the Metropolitan Borou ...
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Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
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Basis
The Airport Police were sworn in under section 14 of the Birmingham Corporation Act 1970.
[Birmingham Corpororation Act 1970 (c.xxii)] This gave them all the powers and privileges of a
constable in the airport, and elsewhere 'for the purpose of arresting any person who they followed from the airport in circumstances in which they could have arrested the person in the airport'.
Constables were exempt from jury duty.
The Corporation had the power to suspend/terminate the appointment of constables.
In 1975 the force had 29 members.
Following the designation of Birmingham Airport under the
Policing of Airports Act 1974, responsibility for policing the airport passed from the Airport Police to the local
territorial police force A territorial police force is a police service that is responsible for an area defined by sub-national boundaries, distinguished from other police services which deal with the entire country or a type of crime. In countries organized as federations, ...
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West Midlands Police
West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
The force covers an area of with 2.93million inhabitants, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, ...
, on 1 May 1976, and two airport police officers were transferred to West Midlands Police on that date.
[Policing of Airports (Birmingham) (First Supplementary) Order 1976 (S1 1976/591)] The remainder were offered transfers to Airport Security.
See also
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Airport policing in the United Kingdom
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Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of the United Kingdom: England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Most law enforcement is carried out by police officers serving in regional po ...
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List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom
There are a number of agencies that participate in law enforcement in the United Kingdom which can be grouped into three general types:
* Territorial police forces, who carry out the majority of policing. These are police forces that cover a ...
References
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Transport in Birmingham, West Midlands
Defunct airport police forces of the United Kingdom