Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

and

Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...

in the

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of England. It is made up of eleven Local Policing Teams, whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authorities within Staffordshire.

History

A combined force covering Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, called Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent Constabulary, was established on 1 January 1968, as a merger of the Staffordshire County Police and

Stoke-on-Trent City Police Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surroun ...

. This force lost areas to the new West Midlands Police in 1974 under the

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and adopted a shorter name. Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, it would have merged with Warwickshire Constabulary,

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and West Midlands Police to form a single strategic force for the

region. However these plans have not been taken forward largely due to public opposition. For 2005/06 Staffordshire police topped the Home Office chart as being the best performing police force in England and Wales.

Chief constables

*1842–1857: John Hayes Hatton *1857–??: Lt-Col Gilbert Hogg *1888–1929: George Augustus Anson *1929–1951: Colonel Sir Herbert Hunter *1951–1960: George William Richard Hearn *1960–1964: Stanley Edwards Peck *1964–1977: Arthur Rees (previously Chief Constable of Denbighshire, 1957–64) *1977–1996: Charles Henry Kelly *1996–2006:

John Giffard John Giffard may refer to: *John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard (1232–1299), English nobleman *John Giffard (died 1556) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier, MP and landowner, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire *John Giffard (died 1613) (1534–1 ...

*2006–2007: David Swift *2007–2009: Chris Sims *2009–2015: Mike Cunningham *2015–2017: Jane Sawyers *2017–2021: Gareth Morgan *2021: Emma Barnett (temporary) *2021–present: Chris Noble

Officers killed in the line of duty

The

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and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Staffordshire Police are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century: *PC William Ezra Price, 1903 (fatally injured attempting to arrest three men) *PC Brinley James Booth, 1946 (bludgeoned to death while attempting to arrest a suspect) *PC John David Taylor, 1986 (pushed out of a building by a suspect)

Organisation

Staffordshire Police is one of two forces involved in the

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along with West Midlands Police. This unit provides roads policing for the motorway network in the West Midlands (mainly M5, M6 and M42). Staffordshire Police has a roads policing unit who police the roads across the county. Staffordshire Police had a mounted division until 1999 where a major reorganisation saw it disbanded. In September 2008, the force announced that it intended to vacate the Cannock Road site and sell it for housing development, moving HQ staff to Lanchester Court, next to the existing Weston Road premises. Staffordshire Police Authority, a separate organisation charged with oversight of the force, had 9 councillors (drawn from both Staffordshire County Council and

Stoke-on-Trent City Council Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. As a unitary authority, it has the combined powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council and is administratively separate from the rest of ...

), 3 justices of the peace, and 5 independent members. The authority was abolished in November 2012, following the election of the first

Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner The Staffordshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, formerly the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner is the police, fire and crime commissioner (PFCC), an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Staffordshi ...

(PCC),

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. The office of the police and crime commissioner and the individual elected is responsible for reducing crime and making the area they represent safer. The PCC decides how much council tax people will pay towards community safety services and policing and is personally accountable for all the public money spent. In 2021, Ben Adams was elected as the new police, fire and crime commissioner, a role previously expanded to include oversight of

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service responsible for fire protection, prevention, intervention and emergency rescue in the county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent. The county ha ...

Staffordshire Police Cadets

Rugeley Police Station - Anson Street, Rugeley - Police van

The Staffordshire Police Cadet scheme aims to strengthen links between the police and young people and promote good citizenship. The programme's chief officer is Chief Superintendent Elliot Sharrad William. The programs deputy chief officer (DCO) is also the DCO of the Special Constabulary; the cadets force also has many special constables, regular police constables and PSV's (police service volunteers) that assist in the running of the units. The scheme has a ranking system similar to that of the Special Constabulary. This ranking system contains a head cadet, deputy head cadet, section leaders, and then the rank of cadet. There is also a ranking system for the volunteer leaders. This contains a unit commander, deputy unit commander, leaders, young leaders. The rank insignia is the same as the Special Constabulary in the sense of using bars to represent the rank (for example the rank of section leader is equal to the rank of sergeant and has the same insignia as one bar on each shoulder).

References

External links

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