Strathclyde Police

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Strathclyde Police
Strathclyde Police area
Area	Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire
Size	13,624 km²
Population	Approx 2.3 million
Operations
Formed	1975 (merger)
HQ	Glasgow, Scotland
Officers	7,500
Divisions	9
Stations	115
Chief Constable	Sir Willie Rae QPM

Website	Force web site

Strathclyde Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire. The Police Authority contains members from each of these authorities^[1]. Until 1996 the area was part of the region of Strathclyde.

It is the largest of the eight Scottish police forces, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. The area it covers is the third largest police area in the United Kingdom, after the areas covered by the Scottish Northern Constabulary and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Strathclyde Police Force was originally defined as covering the area of the former Strathclyde Regional Council, which was abolished in 1996.

In the 1980s, public outrage at the Strathclyde Police's perceived failure to address the violence of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars earned it the nickname the "serious chimes squad" (c.f. Serious Crime Squad).^[2]

1 Personnel
2 History
3 Organisation
4 References
5 External links

The Forces Senior Management Team^[3] are as follows:

Chief Constable: Sir Willie Rae QPM
Deputy Chief Constable: Ricky Gray
Assistant Chief Constable (Community Safety): John Neilson
Assistant Chief Constable (Counter Terrorism): John Corrigan
Assistant Chief Constable (Crime): John LS Malcolm
Assistant Chief Constable (Criminal Justice and Territorial Policing): Kevin Smith
Assistant Chief Constable (Operational Support): Ian Learmonth
Director of Legal Services: Ian McPherson LLB NP
Director of Finance and Resources: Allan Macleod BA (Hons), MBA, CPFA
Director of Information & Communication Technology: Fiona O'Hare
Director of Human Resources: John Evans MBA

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Strathclyde Police was created on May 16, 1975 from the merger of several police services:

City of Glasgow Police
Lanarkshire Constabulary
Renfrew & Bute Constabulary
Dunbartonshire Constabulary
Argyll County Police
Ayrshire Constabulary
small portion of Stirling and Clackmannan Police

The Force is currently organised into 9 Territorial Divisions (designated A,C,E,G,K,L,N,Q & U Divisions), a Headquarters Division (H), a Support Services Division (V Division) and a Road Policing Division (T Division).

The Force is commanded by a Chief Constable, supported by a Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) and 5 Assistant Chief Constables (ACC). The current Chief Constable is Willie Rae.

The Territorial Divisions are commanded by an officer of Chief Superintendent rank supported by their deputy who holds the rank of Superintendent. These Divisions are further sub dived into a number of Sub Divisions, generally 3, which are commanded by a Sub Divisional Officer (S.D.O.) of Superintendent rank supported by a Deputy Sub Divisional Officer (D.S.D.O.) of Chief Inspector Rank.

Strathclyde police currently employ over 7,000 police officers and around 2,500 force support officers (FSO). Their (FSO's) jobs range from drivers to computer technicians and everything in-between, such as, vehicle technicians, communications operators, word processor operators, custody officers and specialised posts in Information Technology and Forensic Science.

The force also currently employ over 100 police cadets who work initially inside the police office helping members of the public with their enquiries, they also go on secondments to other departments within the force, such as, the mounted branch, CID, dog branch and road policing.