Lincolnshire Police

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**Lincolnshire Police**
Coverage
Lincolnshire Police area
Area	Lincolnshire (excl. N. and N. E. Lincs)
Size	5,921 km²
Population	0.7 million
Operations
Formed
HQ	Nettleham, Lincoln
Officers	1,234
Divisions	West, East and South
Stations	Lincoln, Gainsborough, Market Rasen, Sleaford, Skegness, Louth, Boston, Mablethorpe, Grantham, Spalding, Stamford (Also a large number of smaller sub-stations, referred to as "boxes")
Chief Constable	Tony Lake

Website	[1]

Lincolnshire Police is the Home Office police force covering the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. This area doesn't include North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, which are covered by Humberside Police. In terms of geographic area the force is one of the largest covering 2,284 square miles. The population of the area is 646,000.

The force has an establishment of about 1,200 police officers. The county is divided into three divisions for the purposes of policing. These are the East Division (covering Boston, Skegness, Mablethorpe, Louth and Horncastle), West Division (covering Lincoln, Gainsborough, Market Rasen) and South Division (covering Grantham, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford).

The Chief Constable is Tony Lake. Lincolnshire Police Authority has 9 councillors, 3 justices of the peace, and 5 independent members.

Lincolnshire Constabulary was formed in 1856 under the County and Borough Police Act 1856 [2]. Several other borough police forces used to exist in the county, however these were eventually combined with the Lincolnshire force. Under the Police Act of 1946 the Boston and Grantham forces were merged, while those of Lincoln and Grimsby were absorbed under the 1964 Act. Lincolnshire lost part of its area to the new force Humberside Police in 1974.

Proposals made by the Home Secretary on March 20, 2006 would see the force merge with the other four East Midlands forces to form a strategic police force for the entire region. [3]