Admiralty Constabulary

Admiralty Constabulary
United Kingdom
Department overview
Formed1949
Dissolved1971
Superseding Department
JurisdictionGovernment of the United Kingdom
HeadquartersAdmiralty Building
Whitehall
London
Department executive
  • Chief Constable, Admiralty Constabulary
Parent DepartmentAdmiralty
Navy Department (Ministry of Defence)

The Admiralty Constabulary[1] was a police force in the United Kingdom formed under the Special Constables Act 1923. It was formed on 1 October 1949 by merging the Royal Marine Police and the Royal Marine Police Special Reserve (both policing dockyards since 1923) and the Admiralty Civil Police (previously policing naval hospitals).[2] That Admiralty Constabulary was in turn amalgamated with the Army Department Constabulary and the Air Force Department Constabulary in 1971 to form the Ministry of Defence Police.[3]

  1. ^ Hind, Bob (24 April 2016). "In days when the Admiralty ran its own police force". The News. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust - Timeline". Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  3. ^ Button, Mark (2012). Private Policing. Oxford, England: Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 9781135997557.