§ Mr. Grimstonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the names of the non-county boroughs which will lose their separate police forces, the respective populations thereof, and the size of the respective police forces concerned; the names of the county boroughs which have their own police forces, the respective populations thereof, and the size of the respective police forces concerned; 589W and the names of the counties which have their own police forces, the respective populations thereof, and the size of the respective police forces concerned.
§ Mr. EdeThe particulars asked for are given in the tables below:
LIST OF NON-COUNTY BOROUGHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES WITH SEPARATE POLICE FORCES Force. Authorised Establishment (1939). Population (1931). Accrington 52 42,991 Ashton 61 52,175 Bacup 28 20,590 Bedford 64 42,606 Boston 31 22,116 Cambridge 120 70,169 Carmarthen 17 10,310 Chepping Wycombe 41 29,626 Chesterfield 89 64,160 Clitheroe 15 12,008 Colchester 65 49,131 Congleton 18 14,666 Dover* 65 41,281 Folkestone* 73 46,170 Glossop 31 20,001 Grantham 29 19,711 Gravesend* 59 37,670 Guildford* 63 34,237 Hartlepool 26 20,638 Hereford 49 24,163 Hove* 98 54,993 Hyde 41 32,313 Kendal 23 16,316 Kidderminster 44 29,521 King's Lynn 30 23,528 Lancaster 60 43,649 Leamington 55 29,669 Luton 112 70,501 Macclesfield 47 35,552 Maidstone* 64 44,877 Margate* 71 40,3O7 Neath 42 33,340 Newark 27 19,535 Newcastle-under-Lyme 75 54,742 Penzance* 24 19,827 Peterborough 55 43,551 Ramsgate* 63 34,422 Reigate* 59 34,547 Rochester* 59 32,377 St. Albans 51 30,726 Salisbury* 37 26,460 Scarborough 65 42,384 Shrewsbury 52 36,732 Stalybridge 35 24,978 Tunbridge Wells* 66 35,839 Winchester* 38 23,523 Windsor 39 20,287 * Non-county borough police forces merged under EmergencyPowers. 590W
LIST OF COUNTY BOROUGHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES WITH SEPARATE POLICE FORCES Force. Authorised Establishment (1939). Population (1931). Barnsley 90 73,877 Barrow 96 66,202 Bath 110 68,815 Birkenhead 220 151,513 591W
Force. Authorised Establishment (1939). Population (1931). Birmingham 1,887 1,002,603 Blackburn 175 122,791 Blackpool 169 106,095 Bolton 234 177,250 Bootle 115 76,770 Bradford 478 298,692 Brighton* 224 147,427 Bristol 670 403,948 Burnley 130 98,258 Canterbury* 40 25,109 Cardiff 337 226,937 Carlisle 82 57,304 Chester 62 45,747 Coventry 272 178,126 Derby 177 142,520 Dewsbury 79 54,302 Doncaster 94 64,708 Dudley 80 59,583 Eastbourne* 113 58,542 Exeter 90 65,700 Gateshead 156 124,545 Great Yarmouth 76 56,771 Grimsby 120 92,458 Halifax 149 98,115 Hastings* 114 66,191 Huddersfield 152 123,048 Hull 460 313,649 Ipswich 117 87,569 Leeds 703 482,827 Leicester 312 257,718 Lincoln 98 66,243 Liverpool 1,821 856,072 Manchester 1,511 766,311 Merthyr Tydfil 87 71,108 Middlesbrough 196 138,960 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 426 286,255 Newport 153 98,447 Northampton 131 96,546 Norwich 156 126,233 Nottingham 408 276,189 Oldham 180 140,314 Oxford 134 80,539 Plymouth 299 208,182 Portsmouth 315 252,421 Preston 152 119,665 Reading 131 97,149 Rochdale 136 95,527 Rotherham 89 75,223 St. Helens 152 107,452 Salford 345 223,438 Sheffield 715 518,257 Southampton 272 176,007 South end-on-Sea 247 129,483 Southport 115 78,925 South Shields 143 113,185 Stockport 145 126,362 Stoke-on-Trent 254 276,639 Sunderland 219 185,903 Swansea 199 164,797 Tynemouth 87 65,919 Wakefield 75 59,305 Wallasey 127 98,361 Walsall 120 103,059 Warrington 113 81,561 Wigan 118 85,357 Wolverhampton 170 138,631 Worcester 78 51,686 York 113 94,006 * County borough police forces merged under Emergency Powers. 592W
LIST OF COUNTY POLICE FORCES IN ENGLAND AND WALES Force. Authorised Establishment (1939). Population (1931). Anglesey 43 49,029 Bedfordshire 162 107,418 Berkshire 300 194,017 Breconshire 64 57,775 Buckinghamshire 378 241,797 Caernarvonshire 124 120,829 Cambridgeshire 74 69,835 Cardiganshire 43 55,184 Carmarthenshire 148 168,790 Cheshire 791 558,066 Cornwall 302 296,401 Cumberland 286 205,847 Denbighshire 141 157,951 Derbyshire 521 523,530 Devonshire 524 449,476 Dorsetshire 298 239,352 Durham 1,119 1,041,904 Ely, Isle of 88 80,864 Essex 831 518,260 Flintshire 118 112,586 Glamorganshire 822 732,883 Gloucestershire 511 386,585 Hampshire* 646 562,365 Herefordshire 102 87,604 Hertfordshire 386 295,728 Huntingdonshire 71 56,206 Kent 793 628,236 Lancashire 2,526 1,666,771 Leicestershire 253 283,917
Force. Authorised Establishment (1939). Population (1931). Lincolnshire 461 423,925 Merionethshire 39 43,201 Monmouthshire 300 333,163 Montgomeryshire 40 48,473 Norfolk 352 295,378 Northamptonshire 223 212,928 Northumberland 381 404,608 Nottinghamshire 447 417,007 Oxfordshire 148 129,245 Pembrokeshire 88 87,206 Peterborough 10 8,288 Radnorshire 22 21,323 Rutland 22 17,401 Shropshire 205 207,424 Somerset 423 383,755 Staffordshire 933 860,848 Suffolk, East 209 207,408 Suffolk West 131 106,137 Surrey 536 329,905 Sussex, East* 299 219,711 Sussex West* 307 222,995 Warwickshire 418 322,815 Westmorland 62 49,092 Wight, Isle of* 79 88,454 Wiltshire 351 276,733 Worcestershire 364 279,266 Yorkshire, East Riding 215 169,287 Yorkshire North Riding 405 285,422 Yorkshire West Riding 1,681 1,504,057 * County police forces merged under Emergency Powers.