Merger Proposal
Proposals made by Charles Clarke, the then Home Secretary, on 20 March 2006 would have seen the force merge with neighbouring forces Bedfordshire Police and Essex Police to form a strategic police force. However, in July 2006, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair signalled that police force mergers will not be forced through by the central government, and given the amount of local opposition to such mergers it is not expected that any voluntary mergers will be carried out.
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