Cleveland Police | |
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Agency overview | |
Formed | 1 April 1974 |
Preceding agencies | |
Employees | 2,067[1] |
Annual budget | £95.4 million[2] |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction | North Yorkshire (part) County Durham (part) |
Map of police area | |
Size | 231 square miles (600 km2)[3] |
Population | 569,000[3] |
Legal jurisdiction | England and Wales |
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General nature | |
Operational structure | |
Overseen by | |
Headquarters | Middlesbrough |
Police Officers | 1,198[1] |
Police Community Support Officers | 130[1] |
Police and Crime Commissioner responsible |
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Agency executive |
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Local Policing Areas | Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees |
Website | |
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Cleveland Police is a territorial police force in England responsible for the policing the boroughs of Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire and Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham within North East England. The force is overseen by the Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner. Since 2022, the chief constable has been Mark Webster.
The force covers an area of 231 square miles (600 km2) with a recorded population of 569,000 in 2011. Geographically, the force has the second smallest police area of the 43 territorial police forces of England and Wales, after the City of London Police.[5] The force is responsible for policing a predominantly urban area with higher levels of deprivation than average in the United Kingdom.
In terms of officer numbers, Cleveland Police is the 12th smallest of the 48 police forces of the United Kingdom. As of September 2017, the force had 1,274 police officers, 278 police staff, 124 police community support officers and 64 special constables. In the 2019 annual assessment by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Cleveland Police was rated 'inadequate' overall and rated 'inadequate' in all review areas, concluding that "crime prevention isn't a priority for the force and this is a cause of concern".
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