Bath City Police Explained

The Bath City Police was a police force responsible for policing the County Borough of Bath in Somerset, England. It existed between 1836 and 1967.[1] The Bath City Police, as an organization, was formed as a result of Municipal Corporations Act 1835, though it did not begin commencing duties until 15 February 1836. In 1852 the force had a strength of 86 police officers.[2]

It was then merged with the Somerset Constabulary in 1967 and formed the short-lived constabulary of Somerset and Bath. This constabulary, in turn, was amalgamated into the Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1974, which polices the area to this day and employs over 2000 officers.[3] [4]

Background

The British City of Bath, has existed in one form or another since the first century,[5] [6] though human occupation in the area has a much longer history.[7] [8] At the start of the nineteenth century, 40,020 people were recorded to be living in Bath making it one of the largest cities in Britain.[9] The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76), sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales. This reformation was especially significant for Bath, since four of its districts were under control of four separate police forces (while another portion of the city had no police force) until the Municipal Corporations Act centralized policing authority with the city government, rather than Improvement commissioners, in each district.[10]

References

  1. Web site: British Police History. british-police-history.uk. 22 November 2017.
  2. Book: Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of. Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. 1852. Ordered to be printed. en.
  3. News: Police workforce, England and Wales: 30 September 2017. GOV.UK. 27 May 2018. en.
  4. Book: Clark, Peter. Police Reference England and Wales. 2015. 978-0-9858978-0-2. 106.
  5. Web site: History of Bath's Spa . Bath Tourism Plus . 2 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315003815/http://visitbath.co.uk/spa-and-wellbeing/history-of-baths-spa . 15 March 2015 . live .
  6. Web site: Page. William. Romano-British Somerset: Part 2, Bath. British History Online. Victoria County History. 3 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150930191857/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol1/pp219-288. 30 September 2015. live.
  7. Web site: Wessex Archaeology. Archaeological Desk- based Assessment. University of Bath, Masterplan Development Proposal 2008. Bath University. 4 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150902082459/http://www.bath.ac.uk/estates/docs/Appendix_F_Archaeology.pdf. 2 September 2015. live.
  8. Web site: Monument No. 204162 . PastScape . Historic England . 2 May 2015 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150504193813/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=204162 . 4 May 2015 .
  9. Web site: A vision of Bath . Britain through time . University of Portsmouth . 4 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012162314/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10167607 . 12 October 2007 . live .
  10. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, First Report . Parliamentary Papers . 1835 . XXIII.

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