Nottinghamshire Police

Nottinghamshire Police
Agency overview
Formed1968 (1968)
Preceding agencies
  • Nottingham City Police 1836 / 1841
  • Nottinghamshire Constabulary 1840
  • Retford Borough Police 1836
  • Newark-on-Trent Borough Police 1836
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionNottinghamshire, UK
Map of Nottinghamshire Police's jurisdiction
Size830 square miles (2,100 km2)
Population1,170,475
Constituting instrument
General nature
Operational structure
Overseen by
HeadquartersArnold
Sworn members2,361 (FTE 2022)
Police and Crime Commissioner responsible
Agency executive
  • Kate Meynell, Chief Constable
Divisions2
Facilities
Stations31
Website
www.nottinghamshire.police.uk

Nottinghamshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the shire county of Nottinghamshire and the unitary authority of Nottingham in the East Midlands area of England. The area has a population of just over 1 million.

The force headquarters are at Arnold. As of April 2022, the force had 2,238 police officers, 1,465 police staff including PCSOs, around 163 special constables, 113 police support volunteers, 19 student placement volunteers and 131 police cadets.

The chief constable is Kate Meynell, appointed from nearby Derbyshire Constabulary in December 2022, who followed Craig Guildford, in-post since February 2017.

Nottinghamshire Police Authority, which governed the force, was disbanded in November 2012, when the first Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner was elected.