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Lincolnshire Police is the territorial police force covering the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. Despite the name, the force's area does not include North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire, which are covered by Humberside Police instead. In terms of geographic area the force is one of the largest in the United Kingdom covering 2,284 square miles. The population of the area covered by the force is 646,000. As of 2010 the force currently employs over 2,500 people. As at March 2013, there were 1,130 police officers, including 225 Special Constables. == History == Lincolnshire Constabulary was formed in 1856 under the County and Borough Police Act 1856.〔http://www.lincs.police.uk/getFile.asp?FC_ID=109&docID=177〕 Several other borough police forces used to exist in the county, but these were eventually combined with the Lincolnshire force. Under the Police Act 1946, Boston Borough Police and Grantham Borough Police were merged, while Lincoln City Police and Grimsby Borough Police were absorbed under the Police Act 1964. Lincolnshire lost part of its area to the new Humberside Police in 1974. In 1965, the force had an establishment of 918 officers and an actual strength of 883.〔''The Thin Blue Line'', Police Council for Great Britain Staff Side Claim for Undermanning Supplements, 1965〕 Proposals made by the Home Secretary on 20 March 2006 would have seen the force merge with the other four East Midlands forces to form a strategic police force for the entire region. These proposals were ended by John Reid in June 2006. The police authority received £287,600 from the Home Office for costs of preparing the ill-fated merger. In 2008 the Lincolnshire Police Authority experienced a funding crisis. The authority claimed that the central government grant was insufficient to provide efficient policing in Lincolnshire, due to the unfavourable working of the formula used by the government to assess police grants. The authority decided to reduce the shortfall by making a 79% increase in its precept (the portion of Council Tax payable to the Police Authority). The government then announced its intention to "cap" this demand, resulting in a net 26% increase. In 2015 the constabulary hit controversy when an officer threatened to confiscate four-year-old girl's bike on way to school because she was cycling on pavement. The girl burst into tears, however children under 10 cannot be charged with committing a crime and official guidelines from 1999 state that fines are not aimed at those using pavements out of "fear of traffic". The force was later forced to apologise.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987756/Police-threaten-confiscate-four-year-old-girl-s-bike-way-school-cycling-pavement.html#ixzz3U0LgkcQq〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lincolnshire Police」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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