Admiralty Constabulary

Admiralty Constabulary
Department overview
Formed	1949
Dissolved	1971
Superseding agency	Ministry of Defence Police;
Jurisdiction	Government of the United Kingdom
Headquarters	Admiralty Building; Whitehall; London
Department executive	Chief Constable, Admiralty Constabulary;
Parent Department	Admiralty; Navy Department (Ministry of Defence)

The Admiralty Constabulary was a police force in the United Kingdom formed under the Special Constables Act 1923. It was formed on 1 October 1949 by merging the Royal Marine Police and the Royal Marine Police Special Reserve (both policing dockyards since 1923) and the Admiralty Civil Police (previously policing naval hospitals). That Admiralty Constabulary was in turn amalgamated with the Army Department Constabulary and the Air Force Department Constabulary in 1971 to form the Ministry of Defence Police.

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