Gwent Police
| Gwent Police Heddlu Gwent |
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Badge of the Gwent Police
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1967 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Annual budget | £119,539,273 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Gwent in the country of Wales, United Kingdom |
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| Gwent Police area within Wales | |
| Size | 1,554 km² |
| Population | 556,600 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Croesyceiliog |
| Sworn members | 1,198 (including 138 Special Constables) [1] |
| Police and Crime Commissioner responsible | Jeffrey Cuthbert |
| Agency executive | Jeff Farrar, Chief Constable |
| Divisions |
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 22 |
| Website | |
| www.gwent.police.uk | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
Gwent Police (Welsh: Heddlu Gwent) is the territorial police force responsible for policing the local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen in southeast Wales.
History
It was formed in 1967 by the amalgamation of Monmouthshire Constabulary and Newport Borough Police. In 1974 its area was realigned to cover the new administrative county of Gwent. In 1996, the force's area was expanded to cover the former Rhymney Valley district area as a consequence of it becoming part of the Caerphilly county borough, in order to incorporate the entirety of the county borough in the police area.
The Force has its headquarters at Croesyceiliog in Cwmbran. From April 2011 Chief Constable was Carmel Napier. Jeff Farrar was confirmed as Chief Constable in November 2013 after carrying out the role in a temporary capacity from June 2013.
In 2009 Gwent Police worked with film maker Peter Watkins-Hughes to create the short film Cow as part of a campaign to stop texting while driving.[2] The film earned honours in the Advertising Age's weekly Creativity Top 5 video.[3] and became an overnight worldwide internet hit after being shown on the USA The Today Show television show.[4]
At the start of 2010 the government announced cut-backs to all UK police forces. Currently Gwent Police has 1,198 officers and 649 civilian staff and 219 Police community support officers. A number of stations have closed, including those at Newbridge and Abertillery.
Gwent Police along with all other welsh police forces were given specific funding from the Welsh Government for the purpose of employing Police community support officers to get greater communication to communities and sparsely located towns like Chepstow. Gwent Police currently employs 219 Police community support officers.
In 2016 Ian Johnson the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent Police stated that Gwent Police will be having a recruitment drive with the potential of taking on 100 new officers, Gwent Police has up to now have put 60 new potential officers into training.
Ian Johnson the current Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent Police will not be running for re-election.
Jeffrey Cuthbert was elected as the new Gwent Police and crime commissioner in the England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections, 2016
Collaborations
Gwent Police are part of several collaboration these are as followed:
- Joint Firearms Unit (With Dyfed-Powys Police & South Wales Police)
- Tarian (With Dyfed-Powys Police & South Wales Police)
- Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (With Dyfed-Powys Police, North Wales Police & South Wales Police)
- Joint Scientific Investigation Unit (With South Wales Police)
- Air Support (With National Police Air Service)
- Police Dogs (With South Wales Police Pending formal authorisation)
- Missing Childrens Unit (with several Councils)
- Procurement Unit (With South Wales Police)
- Human Resources (Joint Human Resources Director) (With South Wales Police)
- Joint Legal Services (With South Wales Police)
- Fleet Department (With South Wales Police)
- Uniforms and Operations Stores (With South Wales Police)
- Joint Printing Unit (With South Wales Police)
- Record Management (Niche Systems) (With South Wales Police)
Policing Divisions
Gwent Police have two policing areas which are:
- East - Newport & Monmouthshire
- West - Caerphilly , Blaenau Gwent & Torfaen
See also
References
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- Gwent Police
- Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner
- Home Office circular 55-1967 announcing the force's creation
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- Blaenau Gwent
- Caerphilly County Borough
- Monmouthshire
- Newport, Wales
- Torfaen
- Government agencies established in 1967
- Organizations established in 1967
- 1967 establishments in Wales
