British Transport Police is a national special police force that polices the railway network of England,Wales and Scotland. The force polices more than 10,000 miles of track and more than 3,000 stations and depots.
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of the United Kingdom:England and Wales,Scotland,and Northern Ireland. Most law enforcement duties are carried out by those who hold the office of police constable of a territorial police force.
Devon and Cornwall Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall in South West England. The force serves approximately 1.8 million people over an area of 3,967 square miles (10,270 km2).
An authorised firearms officer (AFO) is a British police officer who is authorised and trained to carry and use firearms. The designation is significant because most police officers in the United Kingdom do not routinely carry firearms. The only forces where officers are routinely armed are the Police Service of Northern Ireland,the Ministry of Defence Police,the Civil Nuclear Constabulary,Belfast Harbour Police and the Belfast International Airport Constabulary.
PC Sharon Beshenivsky was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot and killed by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005,becoming the seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty. Her colleague,PC Teresa Milburn,was seriously injured in the same incident. Milburn had joined the force less than two years earlier;Beshenivsky had served only nine months as a constable in the force at the time of her death,having been a community support officer before.
South Yorkshire Police (SYP) is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England. The force is led by Chief Constable Lauren Poultney. Oversight is conducted by Mayor Oliver Coppard.
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom,established to support police by providing expertise in such areas as information technology,information sharing,and recruitment.
Richard Brunstrom QPM is a retired British senior police officer. He was nicknamed the Mad Mullah by motorists and he was the Chief Constable of North Wales Police from January 2001 to July 2009. As such he carried through vigorous changes of strategy,including a campaign to reduce road deaths which attracted high-profile attacks in national media. On his retirement the chair of the North Wales Police Authority said "Under his leadership north Wales has become one of the best performing forces in the UK."
In the United Kingdom police firearm policy varies by constituent countries. In Northern Ireland,all police officers carry firearms whereas in the rest of the United Kingdom,firearms are carried only by specially-trained firearms officers.
Timothy John Brain was the chief constable of Gloucestershire from 2001 to 1 January 2010. He was previously Deputy Chief Constable from 1998.
Alan Roy Billings is an Anglican priest and Labour politician who served as the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2014 to 2024.
Sir Kenneth Lloyd Jones is a British former police officer. He was a Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia,former President of Association of Chief Police Officers for England,Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom and Senior Investigator of Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. Sir Ken Jones is a former President of Association of Chief Police Officers and presently defence &security advisor at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2000 and was knighted for services to policing in 2009.
Peter Vaughan,is a Welsh public servant and retired police chief. He served as the Chief Constable of South Wales Police from January 2010 to December 2017 and is currently Lord Lieutenant of Mid Glamorgan.
Shaun Wright is a British politician. He was the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2014. He was the first person to hold the post,to which he was elected as a Labour Party candidate on 15 November 2012. As he held a senior position in child services during the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal,he faced continual calls to resign. This resulted in his resignation from the Labour Party on 28 August and from his post on 16 September 2014.
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham,South Yorkshire,Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period. Researcher Angie Heal,who was hired by local officials and warned them about child exploitation occurring between 2002 and 2007,has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history",with one report estimating that 1,400 girls were abused by "grooming gangs" between 1997 and 2013. Evidence of the abuse was first noted in the early 1990s,when care home managers investigated reports that children in their care were being picked up by taxi drivers. From at least 2001,multiple reports passed names of alleged perpetrators,several from one family,to the police and Rotherham Council. The first group conviction took place in 2010,when five British-Pakistani men were convicted of sexual offences against girls aged 12–16.
The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) is a scheme run in parts of the United Kingdom whereby certain drivers found committing a driving offence can be offered a training course as an alternative to prosecution.
Timothy Stancliffe Hollis,CBE,QPM is a retired British police officer who was Chief Constable of Humberside Police and Vice-President of the Association of Chief Police Officers. Before joining the police,he served in the British Army as an officer of the Parachute Regiment.
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner of the South Yorkshire Police in South Yorkshire.
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election was a 2014 by-election on 30 October 2014 for the position of Police and Crime Commissioner in the South Yorkshire Police region of the United Kingdom. It was triggered by the resignation of Shaun Wright,the inaugural South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner,who stepped down from the position on 16 September 2014 following the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. Wright had been head of children's services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2010,while events surrounding the scandal were taking place. The Labour candidate,Alan Billings,was elected.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is a national coordination body for law enforcement in the United Kingdom and the representative body for senior police officers in the United Kingdom. Established on 1 April 2015,it replaced the former Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),following the Parker Review of the operations of ACPO.
