ABSTRACT
The UK police are not a unitary body similar to the national police forces that exist in many parts of the world. In England and Wales, forty-three police constabularies undertake territorial policing on a geographical basis, each being led by a chief constable, or “commissioner” in the case of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Sir Norman Bettison is unique among chief officers, being the only person to have been chief constable of two different provincial police forces: Merseyside (1998 to 2005) and West Yorkshire (2007 to 2012).
