List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories
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List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories
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There are a number of agencies that participate in law enforcement in the United Kingdom which can be grouped into three general types:
- Territorial police forces, who carry out the majority of policing. These are police forces that cover a police area and have an independent police authority. Current police forces have their grounding in the Police Act 1996, a combination of Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 and the Police Act 2000, which prescribe a n
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2004-11-28T13:26:16Z
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2024-09-08T12:40:30Z
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