Falmouth Docks Police

Falmouth Docks Police is non-Home Office ports police force whose primary role is security of Falmouth Docks.[1] As of 2007 the constabulary numbered just four constables.[2]

Officers of this constabulary are sworn in as special constables under section 79 of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847. As a result, officers have the full powers of a constable on any land owned by Falmouth Docks & Engineering Company and at any place within one mile of any owned land.

Any serious, major incidents or crime becomes the responsibility of the local territorial police force, Devon and Cornwall Police.

  1. ^ "British Police History". www.british-police-history.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. ^ Department for Transport, Great Minster House (1 January 1970). "Accountability and Standards of the Port Police Forces". Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2018.