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A division was until recently the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces, similar to a precinct in American city police departments, and is still used in some forces. It was and is also used in many other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. The British police are a group of similar but independent police services which operate in the United Kingdom. ...
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The term has existed since the creation of police forces in the early 19th century. Most police forces were divided into divisions, usually commanded by a Superintendent. These could cover a wide rural area, a substantial town, or a portion of a city, depending on the population (London, for instance, was divided at one point into 67 Metropolitan Police divisions and a further four City of London Police divisions). In 1949, the Metropolitan Police regraded its divisional commanders as Chief Superintendents and most other forces followed suit. Superintendent (Supt. ...
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In the United Kingdom, divisions functioned as semi-independent bodies, with the divisional commander being allowed a great deal of freedom in the way he policed his "patch". A division had its own Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers, who handled all investigations except very specialist operations and serious crimes such as murder, for which experienced specialist officers from headquarters were called in (although the groundwork was still largely done by local CID). There was frequently great rivalry and even dislike between officers based "on the divisions" and officers based at headquarters, with the former seeing the latter as elitist fast-trackers who did not know what real police work was all about, and the latter seeing the former as unimaginative "plods" without any real ambition or ability. There was also great rivalry between adjacent divisions, which sometimes degenerated into operations deliberately designed to embarrass or discredit the other. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all British Police forces to which plain clothes detectives belong. ...
Major reforms of police organisation took place in the 1990s and the divisions were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs). Some forces continue to refer to them as divisions, however. A Basic Command Unit (BCU) is the largest unit into which territorial British Police forces are divided. ...
Hong Kong The Hong Kong Police Force divides its territory into 23 divisions or districts, each reporting to one of the six regions. The Hong Kong Police Force (Chinese: 香港è¦å¯Ÿ Pinyin: XiÄng GÇŽng jÇngchá since 1997) is the police force of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
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India In India, the equivalent to a division is a Police District. Policing in India is on a state basis, and every state is divided into a number of districts. Each district is headed by a Superindentent of Police. The district is subdividied into Sub Divisions, each commanded by a Deputy Superintendent of Police. Sub Divisions are further divided into Police Circles. In the case of a district including large cities, two separate police districts are created, known as the City Police District, headed by a Commissioner, and the Rural District Police, headed by a Superintendent. Deputy Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was a rank used by police forces of the British Empire. ...
Singapore The Singapore Police Force divides the city-state into six divisions of varying physical sizes and population. These boundaries tend to be demarcated in terms of cases handled by observing criminal trends over time, instead of being based on area or population sizes alone. The Jurong Police Division Headquarters at Jurong West Avenue 5. ...
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Canada Toronto Police Service are divided into districts and within each districts and divisions within each district. Toronto Police Service crest The Toronto Police Service (TPS), also known as T.O.P.D., formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is the local police force for the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Other agencies using divisions include:
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