West Midlands Police
| West Midlands Police | |
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| Abbreviation | WMP |
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| Motto | Forward in Unity (crest) and Serving our communities, protecting them from harm (brand) |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1 April 1974 |
| Preceding agencies | |
| Employees | 10,884 |
| Volunteers | 2,000 |
| Annual budget | £452.6 million |
| Legal personality | Non government: Police force |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of West Midlands (county) in the country of England, UK |
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| Map of West Midlands Police's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 348 mi² |
| Population | 2.83 million |
| Legal jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Constituting instrument | Police Act 1996 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Lloyd House, Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham 52°29′01″N 1°53′50″W / 52.48361°N 1.89722°WCoordinates: 52°29′01″N 1°53′50″W / 52.48361°N 1.89722°W |
| Constables | 6,944 (additionally 303 are special constables) |
| Police Community Support Officers | 506 |
| Police and Crime Commissioner responsible | David Jamieson |
| Agency executive | Dave Thompson QPM, Chief Constable |
| Parent agency | Home Office |
| Child agency | Central Motorway Police Group Central Counties Air Operations Unit |
| Local Policing Units | 10 |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | 52 |
| Airbases | Birmingham Airport |
| Helicopters | 1 Eurocopter EC135 |
| Website | |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Covering an area with nearly 2.9 million inhabitants, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton and also the Black Country; the force is made up of 6,944 Police Officers, supported by 3,131 Police Staff, 303 Special Constables and 506 Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) – with these 10,884 employees, this makes it the second-largest force in England behind the Metropolitan Police and third-largest force in the United Kingdom after the aforementioned force and Police Scotland.
The force is currently led by Chief Constable Dave Thompson. The force area is divided into ten Local Policing Units (LPUs), each being served by four core policing teams – Response, Neighbourhood, Investigation and Community Action & Priority (CAPT) – with the support of a number of specialist crime teams. These specialist teams include CID, traffic and a firearms unit who provide a twenty-four-hour availability to attend reported incidents involving the use of firearms and knives.
From comparative data published by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for the twelve months up to September 2013, West Midlands Police recorded 62.93 crimes per 1000 population against an average for England and Wales of 61.39. Total recorded crime was down 3% on the same period the previous year against an average of a 3% fall nationally. Detection rates for the same period were 23% against a national average of 29% and victim surveys indicated 84.76% of victims were satisfied with overall service provided by West Midlands Police compared against a national average of around 85%.
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