Wallingford Borough Police

Wallingford Borough Police
Agency overview
Formed	1836 (1836)
Dissolved	September 8, 1856 (1856-09-08)
Superseding agency	Berkshire Constabulary
Employees	3 (at dissolution)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	[[United Kingdom|UK]]
Legal jurisdiction	Wallingford, Berkshire, England
Governing body	Wallingford Borough Council
Constituting instrument	Municipal Corporations Act 1835
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Wallingford
Constables	3 (at dissolution)

Wallingford Borough Police was the police force responsible for policing the borough of Wallingford in Berkshire, England until 1856. ^[1]

It had been established in 1836 as a result of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Wallingford Borough Police was amalgamated into Berkshire Constabulary on 8 September 1856, when the borough authorities voluntarily agreed to let Berkshire Constabulary police the borough. The three serving constables of the borough force at that time were discharged. ^[2]

Wallingford is today policed by the successor to Berkshire Constabulary, Thames Valley Police.

See also

• List of defunct law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom

References

1. "The History of Thames Valley Police" (PDF). Thamesvalley.police.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Clark, Peter (2016), Police and Constabulary of England and Wales (eighteenth century to 2016), Amazon Kindle, p. 21206