Port of Felixstowe Police

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Port of Felixstowe Police
Agency overview
Formed1975
Employees30 police
64 security guards
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction UK
Legal jurisdiction Port of Felixstowe and up to 1-mile (1.6 km) from boundary.
Constituting instrument
General nature
Operational structure
HeadquartersPolice Dept, Port of Felixstowe, The Dock, IP11 3SY
Constables24
Security guards64
Agency executive
  • J Whitby, Chief Police Officer
Facilities
Stations1
Website
www.portoffelixstowe.co.uk/port/health-and-safety

The Port of Felixstowe Police is a non-Home Office ports police force established in 1975, [1] responsible for policing the Port of Felixstowe in Felixstowe, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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Jurisdiction

Officers of this force are sworn in as special constables under section 79 of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847, as incorporated by section 3(1)(e) of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Act 1956. [1] As a result, officers have the full powers of a constable on any land owned by the Port of Felixstowe and at any place within one mile of any owned land. The Port Police operate their own small fleet of liveried police cars and vans. [2] Additional security is provided by MITIE. [3]

Establishment

The force is commanded by the Chief Police Officer (currently J I Whitby), and is additionally made up of one inspector, four sergeants and 18 constables. Two controllers and one secretary support the force. [4]

Constables work in one of four watches, designated 'A Watch', 'B Watch', 'C Watch', and 'D Watch', each supervised by a sergeant. For operational reasons, each watch requires a deputy supervisor, for which purpose four constables (one per watch) are afforded the rank of acting sergeant. [5] As this is not a substantive rank, they are referenced as constables in policing statistics. The four watches report to the inspector, who as operations officer also supervises the control room and its two controllers.

The 24 sworn police officers are assisted by three administrative staff and 64 contract security guards, who carry out routine gate control and search duties. [6]

Station sergeant

The rank of station sergeant was once common in British police forces, but was phased out of most forces between 1973 and 1989. After 1989 the Port of Felixstowe Police held the distinction of being the only British police force to retain this historic rank. A single station sergeant functioned as a deputy to the inspector. [7] In 2015, on the retirement of Inspector M Hayward, the last station sergeant (Station Sergeant A Miaoulis) was promoted to inspector, and the rank of station sergeant was abolished.

Rank table

The following table illustrates the ranks used in the force.

Port of Felixstowe Police ranks
Rank Chief Officer
(Chief Inspector) 		Inspector Station sergeant
(Until 2015)		 Sergeant Police
Constable
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Notes:
Exact formats vary between uniform types.
The illustrations are generic and illustrative.
The collar numbers are typical of this police force.

Operations

The Port of Felixstowe Police has self-defined its operational responsibilities under eight headings: [8]

The local Home Office police force, Suffolk Constabulary, are responsible for dealing with serious crime incidents within the port.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Port of Felixstowe: Port Protection".
  2. ↑ "Port of Felixstowe y". Ingersoll Rand. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  3. ↑ "MITIE secures the Port of Felixstowe and forms security partnership". Property & Facilities Management. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  4. ↑ "Port of Felixstowe Police Freedom of Information Publication Scheme" (PDF). Port of Felixstowe. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  5. ↑ See the force reporting structure table
  6. ↑ See Port of Felixstowe Police 'background' section at Accountability & Standards Archived 2015-10-04 at the Wayback Machine , page 29.
  7. ↑ See table
  8. ↑ See section 11 of the Port FoI Publication Scheme.
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