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Devon & Cornwall Constabulary employs 3,500 police officers, more than 2,000 civilian staff and 362 police community support officers. They cover the largest geographical police area in England, extending 180 miles from the Dorset and Somerset borders in the east to the Isles of Scilly in the west. It includes the cities of Exeter and Plymouth, popular seaside resorts such as Torquay and Newquay, and a large rural population, each of which present very different policing challenges.

The area's population is around 1.5 million, rising to eight million with the influx of visitors in the summer months. Their history dates back to 1836 when 24 borough police forces were informed across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Parish constables were elected once a year by the vestry meeting in each parish, and the office was often unpopular, as they received no wages. However in the 1850s the Devon County of Constabulary and Cornwall County Constabulary were formed, bringing a new professionalism to the policing of the peninsula. These constabularies plus the Exeter City Police and the Plymouth Borough Police, finally came together in a series of mergers resulting in the formation of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary in 1967. We show our Cortina MK III as used by them in the 1970's.