A territorial police force is a police service that is responsible for an area defined by sub-national boundaries, distinguished from other police services which deal with the entire country or a type of crime. In countries organized as federations , police responsible for individual sub-national jurisdictions are typically called state or provincial police .
34-513: Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England . It is made up of 11 local policing teams, whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authorities within Staffordshire. A combined force covering Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, called Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent Constabulary ,
68-620: A chief constable, deputy chief constable, two assistant chief constables and civilian assistant chief officer. Staffordshire Police has a roads policing unit (RPU) who police the roads across the county, focusing efforts elsewhere than motorways which are policed by the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG). Staffordshire Police is one of two forces involved in the Central Motorway Police Group along with West Midlands Police. This unit provides roads policing for
102-399: A completely 24/7 wholetime duty system. Longton , Hanley , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Cannock and Burton-upon-Trent operate as wholetime plus retained stations (WDS/RDS), which means, along with a 24-hour station-based complement of firefighters, they have retained on-call "back-up" personnel that, when required, crew the second fire engine housed at the fire station, as well as some of
136-488: A major fire station rebuild and modernisation programme. The £100M required to build twenty-two 'community fire stations' and to modernise six others came from a PFI initiative. The towns of Stafford and Tamworth also gained a second fire station to enable firefighters to meet strict attendance times in the congested towns. The extensive rebuild was divided into two phases: Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales
170-464: A pager, and, therefore, have to live or work within five minutes driving time of their station to meet strict Home Office response times. After the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the British government adopted austerity measures. By 2009, austerity had seen 70 full-time firefighter jobs lost in Staffordshire alone. Then between 2011 and 2015 Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service were forced to make
204-422: A population of 1,126,200 (mid-2017 estimate) and covers a total area of 2,260 km (870 square miles). Staffordshire shares the majority of its border with Derbyshire , Cheshire , West Midlands (County) and Shropshire ; although, in much shorter stretches, the county also butts up against Worcestershire , Warwickshire and Leicestershire . As of 1 August 2018 , the fire service functions under
238-404: A retained on-call crew available if needed to crew other appliances based at the station. After 6:00 pm the stations become retained on-call only, and the fire appliances are crewed by the same firefighters but not from the station itself. All other Staffordshire fire stations operate the "on-call" retained duty system. All retained firefighters respond from home or work, and are notified by
272-497: A single strategic force for the West Midlands region. However these plans have not been taken forward largely due to public opposition. For 2005/06 Staffordshire police topped the Home Office chart as being the best performing police force in England and Wales . The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984,
306-474: A £4 million saving. In 2016 they had a further £1.5 million cut from their £45 million annual budget. Along with firefighters, appliances were lost too. Burton-upon-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme each used to operate two wholetime fire engines and one retained. Both stations had a wholetime pump replaced by a 'targeted response vehicle': a smaller fire appliance based on a Mercedes-Benz van chassis. Several of these appliances were purchased over
340-587: Is made up of heathland, chaseland and forest that stretches between Stafford , Cannock , Rugeley and Chase Terrace . In the north of the county the Staffordshire Moorlands is an area of remote wilderness where The Pennines spill over the Derbyshire and Cheshire borders, and has an area of around 576 km (222 square miles). These areas pose a considerable risk of wildfires, and regularly keep firefighters extremely busy during hot dry spells. Also,
374-502: Is personally accountable for all the public money spent, they are also responsible for communicating and representing public interests in the force area and holding the Chief Constable to account. In 2021, Ben Adams was elected as the new Police, Fire and Crime commissioner, a role previously expanded to include oversight of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service . The Staffordshire Police Cadet scheme aims to strengthen links between
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#1733085260665408-498: Is run under the command of the Chief Fire Officer and an executive board, and provides emergency response from 33 strategically located fire stations, divided into three delivery groups: Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has its headquarters and training school at Pirehill near the town of Stone in mid-Staffordshire. Their fire control centre used to be at Pirehill, but was closed after its amalgamation with fire control of
442-603: Is the federal-level police service. It also acts as the provincial police service in every province except for Ontario , and Quebec , which operate provincial police services, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador , which is served by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary . The RCMP is also contracted to act as the territorial police force in Nunavut , Yukon and the Northwest Territories in addition to being
476-452: Is the use of such a force in East Timor in substitution for Indonesian National Police . Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service responsible for fire protection, prevention, intervention and emergency rescue in the county of Staffordshire and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent . The county has
510-718: The G8 Conference in Scotland in 2005 or COP26 officers of the Metropolitan Police who are on protection duties anywhere in the United Kingdom and when taking a person to or from a prison . The United Nations (UN) has operated territorial police forces in those parts of countries which have been under control of the UN from time to time. These were usually formed from police personnel on loan from member countries. A recent example
544-548: The M6 Toll road. The main 'A‘ roads the A5 , A50 , A34 and A38 also cross the county. These well-used routes are regularly the scene of numerous road traffic accidents, vehicle fires and chemical incidents. There are also many significant rural risks in Staffordshire : The medieval hunting grounds of Cannock Chase is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ), and
578-707: The West Midlands Fire Service in March 2014. Both brigades operate under a joint control centre situated in Birmingham . The county's maintenance workshops are located at the Joint Emergency Transport Facility in Trentham Lakes industrial park, a joint workshop with Staffordshire Police. Of the 33 strategically located fire stations , only Stafford , Tamworth Belgrave and Sandyford operate on
612-665: The federal police force in those Canadian territories. A separate Sahrawi indigenous unit serving the Spanish colonial government was the Policia Territorial . This gendarmerie corresponded to the Civil Guard in metropolitan Spain . It was commanded by Spanish officers and included Spanish personnel of all ranks. In the United Kingdom (UK) the phrase is gaining increased official (but not yet statutory ) use to describe
646-597: The Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Staffordshire Police are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century: Staffordshire Police operates with the same rank structure as other Home Office forces in Britain. Presently, the force operates with a senior leadership team consisting of
680-524: The Special Constabulary. This ranking system contains a head cadet, deputy head cadet, section leaders, and then the rank of cadet. There is also a ranking system for the volunteer leaders. This contains a unit commander, deputy unit commander, leaders, young leaders. The rank insignia is the same as the Special Constabulary in the sense of using bars to represent the rank. Territorial police force The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP/GRC)
714-583: The collection of forces responsible for general policing in areas defined with respect to local government areas. The phrase " Home Office Police" is commonly used but this is often inaccurate or inadequate as the words naturally exclude forces outside England and Wales , but include some special police forces over which the Home Secretary has some power. The police forces referred to as "territorial" are those whose police areas are defined by: Members of territorial police forces have jurisdiction in one of
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#1733085260665748-517: The control of the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner acting as the Fire & Rescue Authority. The county provides considerable risks to its residents and firefighters. These include the industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent and the large industrial towns of Burton-upon-Trent , Stafford , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Tamworth and Cannock . The M6 motorway runs through the county, as does
782-465: The force announced that it intended to vacate the Cannock Road HQ Site and sell it for housing development, moving HQ staff to Lanchester Court, next to the existing Weston Road premises. Staffordshire Police Authority , a separate organisation charged with oversight of the force, had 9 councillors (drawn from both Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council ), 3 justices of
816-479: The moorlands offer their own logistical difficulties during harsh winters, particularly to the residents of the towns and villages dotted throughout the hills - towns like Leek and Biddulph , and the villages of Ipstones and Longnor amongst others. The Staffordshire Moorlands is home to Flash , the highest village in The United Kingdom, which stands at 463 m (1,519 feet) above sea level. The service
850-520: The motorway network in the West Midlands (mainly M5, M6 and M42). Staffordshire Police had a mounted division until 1999, when it was disbanded as part of cost-saving measures that saw 250 jobs cut from the force. Twelve jobs were lost with the closure of the division and the twelve horses from the division were sold on the private market, saving the force £500,000 per year (equivalent to equivalent to £1,094,434 in 2023) in costs. In September 2008,
884-458: The next few years, and were used in place of conventional full-sized fire engines. Reports of their effectiveness were mixed, but eventually all but one of them has been retired or mothballed . Today only Lichfield operate one, and is crewed by their retained sector. Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent city centre used to operate a turntable ladder high-reach appliance, but it was never replaced when it
918-431: The opposite side of the town, but only operates on an on-call basis. Burslem fire station in Stoke-on-Trent was once a wholetime/retained station operating two pumps and a foam tender , but when in 2011 a new one-pump wholetime fire station became operational at Sandyford near Tunstall , Stoke-on-Trent , Burslem fire station became a single-pump retained set-up, with their foam capability transferring to Cheadle . At
952-498: The peace , and 5 independent members. The authority was abolished in November 2012, following the election of the first Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Matthew Ellis. The office of the police and crime commissioner and the individual elected is responsible for reducing crime and making the area they represent safer. The PCC decides how much council tax people will pay towards community safety services and policing and
986-479: The police and young people and promote good citizenship. The programme's chief officer is Chief Superintendent Elliot Sharrad William. The programs deputy chief officer (DCO) is also the DCO of the Special Constabulary; the cadets force also has many special constables , regular police constables and PSV's (police service volunteers) that assist in the running of the units. The scheme has a ranking system similar to that of
1020-401: The same time the two-pump day-crewed/retained station at Kidsgrove to the north of Stoke lost their day-crewed pump, becoming a one-pump retained station. The two-pump retained fire stations of Uttoxeter , Cheadle and Wombourne each lost their water tender in 2007. With two-pump retained Rugeley and Stone losing theirs in 2016. In 2010/2011, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service began
1054-426: The specialist appliances that may be stationed there. All wholetime firefighters work the four "watch" system. This produces an eight-day rota, with crews operating on a "two-days-on, two-nights-on, four-days-off" system. Leek and Lichfield fire stations operate as day-crewed and retained: firefighters respond from the fire station as wholetime firefighters between the hours of 8:00 am and 6:00 pm with
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1088-440: The three distinct legal systems of the United Kingdom – either England and Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland . A police officer of one of the three legal systems has all the powers of a constable throughout their own legal system but limited powers in the other two legal systems. Certain exceptions where full police powers cross the border with the officer are when officers are providing planned support to another force such as
1122-619: Was established on 1 January 1968, as a merger of the Staffordshire County Police and Stoke-on-Trent City Police . This force lost areas to the new West Midlands Police in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and adopted a shorter name. Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, it would have merged with Warwickshire Constabulary , West Mercia Constabulary and West Midlands Police to form
1156-412: Was retired. County town Stafford once operated two wholetime pumps, a high-reach aerial ladder platform , a rescue tender and a rope rescue unit . Today it just operates one wholetime pump and the ageing Land Rover rope rescue unit. Its hydraulic platform and rescue tender were not replaced upon their retirement, and their second pump transferred to the newly built Rising Brook retained fire station on
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