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Lincolnshire Police
Lincolnshire Police area
Coverage
Area	Lincolnshire (excl. N. and N. E. Lincs)
Size	5,921 km²
Population	750,000
Operations
Formed
HQ	Nettleham, Lincoln
Budget	£108.6
Officers	1,234
Divisions	West, East and South
Stations	Lincoln, Gainsborough, Market Rasen, Sleaford, Skegness, Louth, Boston, Mablethorpe, Grantham, Spalding, Stamford (Also a large number of smaller sub-stations, referred to as "boxes")
Chief Constable	Tony Lake
Website	www.lincs.police.uk

Lincolnshire Police is the Home Office police force covering the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. Despite the name, the force's area does not include North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which are covered by Humberside Police instead.

In terms of geographic area the force is one of the largest in the United Kingdom covering 2,284 square miles. The population of the area covered by the force is 646,000.

The Chief Constable is Tony Lake. The Deputy Chief Constable is Richard Crompton. Lincolnshire Police Authority has 9 councillors, 3 justices of the peace, and 5 independent members.

The force has an establishment of about 1,200 police officers. The county is divided into three divisions for the purposes of policing. These are the East Division (covering Boston, Skegness , Mablethorpe, Louth and Horncastle) of which Skegness is the Divisional Headquarters, West Division (covering Lincoln, Gainsborough, Market Rasen, Sleaford) of which Lincoln (West Parade) is the Divisional Headquarters and South Division (covering Grantham, Spalding and Stamford) of which Grantham is the Divisional Headquarters).

Sleaford was moved from the South Division to the West Division in 2006 under plans to bring Policing areas in line with Local Authority Areas.

Lincolnshire Constabulary was formed in 1856 under the County and Borough Police Act 1856 [1]. Several other borough police forces used to exist in the county, however these were eventually combined with the Lincolnshire force. Under the Police Act of 1946 the Boston and Grantham forces were merged, while those of Lincoln and Grimsby were absorbed under the 1964 Act. Lincolnshire lost part of its area to the new force Humberside Police in 1974.

Proposals made by the Home Secretary on March 20, 2006 would have seen the force merge with the other four East Midlands forces to form a strategic police force for the entire region. [2] This unnecessary and unpopular idea [3] was canned by John Reid in June 2006. [4] The police authority received £287,600 from the Home Office for costs of preparing the ill-fated merger.

• Laurence Byford (former Chief Constable) - father of Mark Byford
• Arthur Troop - police sergeant who started the International Police Association on January 1 1950, with initial resistance from his superiors. [5]

The force have made appearances on BBC News locally, and more recently in the 2007 series of ITV's Police Camera Action! which often mentions the force frequently during the series (30 episodes).

• List of police forces in the United Kingdom
• Policing in the United Kingdom

• Lincolnshire Police

• Six Boston policemen resign in July 2006
• Illegal surveillance led to court cases being dropped
• Mother-of-three dies of hypothermia, leading to negligence charges
• Nightsafe Initiative
• Investigating UKIP
• CS gas used on driver who didn't wear a seat belt
• Policeman refused when trying to buy a sausage roll
• 50th year of International Police Association