City of London market constabularies explained

The City of London market constabularies are three small constabularies responsible for security at Billingsgate,^[1] New Spitalfields^[2] and Smithfield^[3] markets run by the City of London Corporation.

Powers and duties

Market constables now perform a mixture of security and emergency medical work and are no longer recognised as police officers and are not attested as such. However, their uniforms still say "Markets Police" out of tradition and their 'police-type' role. They are responsible for enforcing market bylaws, rules and regulations. They are not expected to get into serious confrontational roles, with more serious related work being handed over to the City of London Police or Metropolitan Police Service.

New Spitalfield Markets Constabulary

The organisation has a number of members:

• Head of security (Grade E): 1
• Deputy Head of security (Grade C++): 1
• Sergeants (Grade C): 3
• Constables (Grade B): 12 (has an establishment of 13).^[4]

Uniforms

Constables wear modern-day police uniforms and may wear: blue or white shirt and tie, protective stab vest, high visibility jackets and black (sometimes white-topped) peaked caps with the City of London badge.

See also

• History of marketing
• Birmingham Market Police
• Liverpool Markets Police
• Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
• List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories
• Market (place)
• Retail

Notes and References

1. Web site: Billingsgate Market > About Billingsgate. City of London website. City of London. 2 March 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613032026/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Business/Markets/Billingsgate+Market/about_billingsgate.htm. 13 June 2011. dead.
2. Web site: New Spitalfields Market > About Spitalfields . City of London website . . 2 March 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929233939/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Business/Markets/New%2BSpitalfields%2BMarket/about.htm . 29 September 2011 .
3. Web site: Wards > Farringdon without. City of London Police website. City of London Police. 2 March 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100818234017/http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/SaferCityWards/YourCityWard/Wards/farringdonwithout.htm. 18 August 2010.
4. Web site: City of London market constabularies - a Freedom of Information request to City of London Corporation. December 2017.