Thames Valley Police is one of the largest Home Office police services in England and the largest non-metropolitan one, covering 2200 sq mi (5,700 km²) and a population of 2.1 million. The force is responsible for the Thames Valley area covered by the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. its slogan is reducing crime, disorder and fear.
The Chief Constable of the force is Sara Thornton who was promoted to the position in April 2007.

History
The force is split into five Basic Command Units (BCUs) these being Oxfordshire, Berkshire West, Berkshire East, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. In turn each BCU is split into Local Policing Areas (LPAs) that are coterminous with local authority boundaries.
The headquarters of Thames Valley Police is at Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The force is covered by two control rooms, with the one in Abingdon covering Oxfordshire, Berkshire West, and one in Milton Keynes covering Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire East.
The two "PEC"s (Police Enquiry Centres) were formed in 2003, in addition to the closure of local control rooms to support the newly formed control rooms in Abingdon and Milton Keynes. They are located in [Windsor] police station and in a business park nearby to the Force Headquarters in Kidlington. The PEC handle non-emergency calls from the public.
Sulhamstead House in Sulhamstead is the Thames Valley Police training college, which also houses the Thames Valley Police Museum.
There are also several Traffic Departments (Roads Policing) bases at strategic locations around the force at Abingdon, Bicester, Taplow, Amersham, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Three Mile Cross and Chieveley.

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