Formed 1839 Population 564,000 Founded 1839 Annual budget 95.7 million GBP | Volunteers 143 Phone +44 1452 726920 Number of employees 2,271 | |
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Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Operations jurisdiction* Police area of Gloucestershire in the country of England, UK Size 1,025 square miles (2,650 km) Address County Police Headquarters, 1 Waterwells Dr, Quedgeley, Gloucester GL2 2AN, UK Similar British Transport Police, Trinity Road Police St, Gloucest Fire & Rescue S, Gwent Constabu Headqua, Specialist Aviation Services Profiles | ||
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Gloucestershire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire in England (South Gloucestershire is covered by Avon and Somerset Constabulary).
Contents
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- History
- Structure
- Officers killed in the line of duty
- Investigations
- Race and sex discrimination in recruitment
- Cheese rolling
- Photography in public places
- References
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History
The force was founded in 1839, six hours after Wiltshire Constabulary, making it the second rural police force formed in Britain. The force in its present form dates from 1 April 1974, when the southern part of Gloucestershire became part of the County of Avon and thus of the newly formed Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
In 1965, the force had an establishment of 1,010 and an actual strength of 867.
Structure
As of 1 April 2011, under the new structure, policing in the county is delivered through six Local Policing Areas: Cheltenham, Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Stroud and Tewkesbury. Each of these areas is commanded by a superintendent.
Within the six areas there are nine Local Policing Teams covering 55 communities: two each in Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud and one in Tewkesbury, the Forest and the Cotswolds.
Officers killed in the line of duty
The Police Roll of Honour Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty. The Police Memorial Trust since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials to some of those officers.
Since 1817 the following officers of Gloucestershire Constabulary were killed while attempting to prevent or stop a crime in progress:
Investigations
In 2015, Gloucestershire police were able to show using biomechanical evidence that Robert Nowak was the driver of a car involved in a crash in 2013 in which his friend Michal Sobolak was killed. Nowak was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 7 years' disqualification from driving, for Death by Dangerous Driving, Conspiring to Pervert the Course of Justice and Driving whilst Disqualified.
Race and sex discrimination in recruitment
In November 2006, a tribunal ruled that the constabulary had illegally discriminated against 108 white male candidates it had rejected from its recruitment process solely because of their race and gender. Matt Powell, one of the "randomly deselected" candidates, took legal action and was awarded £2,500 compensation. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and the Equal Opportunities Commission who led the investigation stated that the Gloucestershire Police had unlawfully discriminated on the grounds of race and gender.
Cheese rolling
In 2013, Gloucestershire police warned Diana Smart against supplying cheese for the annual cheese rolling event.
Photography in public places
Following a traffic collision a photographer was initially asked to stop taking photographs of the accident scene whilst a victim was being removed from a vehicle. During a highly charged discussion the photographer made a video recording of part of his interaction with the officer during which, an officer of Gloucestershire Constabulary was seen threatening to arrest the photographer, ordering him to delete the photographs taken, and asserting that it was illegal to take photographs, according to press reports on 7 January 2014. The officer said "you're lucky I didn't bloody knock you out!". The incident was uploaded onto YouTube. In England there is no law against taking photographs in a public place, and no policeman may order a photographer to delete their photographs once they have been taken—to do so requires a court order.