Talk:Royal Parks Constabulary

Problem of dating : the Act that abolished the Constabulary, was the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. claims that it came into force on July 1, 2005. However, (the actual Royal Parks Operational Command Unit website) claims it came into effect on April 1, 2004. !!!! Morwen - Talk 11:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

You may already be aware by now, but the different dates were due to the legislation having to catch up with the changes. A review of the RPC suggested merger with the Metropolitan Police. This was agreed and the functions of the RPC and its officers became part of the Mets, Royal Parks OCU on 1st April 2004. The legislation which formally abolished the RPC didn't commence until, as you state, 1st July 2005. The RPC had to all intents and purposes been operationally 'dead' since 1st April 2004 though. Dibble999 19:03, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * That's what I'd guessed, but thank you for confirming this. Morwen - Talk 17:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Scotland
I'm curious about this. Does the force (which was never stronger than a handful of officers outside London) really still exist in Scotland, or have its powers been handed to some other agency? In the former case, it would presumably be tiny. In the latter case, it does not really exist as a police force. I can find no evidence of its continuing existence via Google except a passing reference on the Historic Scotland site. -- Necrothesp 00:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I would agree. I have had a good dig around for evidence of the force continuing in Scotland but am struggling to find any references. SOCAP Act which abolished RPC makes no mention of the Scottish bit continuing, which I find odd. You would have thought any abolishing act would specifically state that it does not apply to Scotland or some such. My understanding is the force in totality is now history and absorbed into the Met in London. Dibble999 07:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Well. The SOCAP act does restrict itself to England and Wales except for certain numbered sections.  Section 161 is not one of the ones that mentions it applies to Scotland.  What this means is unclear, but could be the origin of the claim.  Morwen - Talk 17:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Expand the article
I think you can expand this article. You can put a photo of the vehicles and logos used.49.199.17.8 (talk) 21:58, 14 December 2018 (UTC)


 * This will be increasingly difficult as the force was abolished some time ago Bowchaser (talk) 11:10, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Hyde Park
There appears to be a conflict between the two paragraphs mentioning Hyde Park as to when the Royal Parks Constabulary began policing it. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:15, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

royal parks constabulary
the total rubbish of starting in 1872 bears no formal credence, if you take the unfounded claim at its bear minimum then in 1872 there would have been hundreds of keepers employed to cover all of the parks with hundreds of uniforms purchased, advertising for posts, where is this evidence? as correctly stated Samuel parkes was an inspector, so how can he be there and die before 1872? how can other keepers be empolyed and carry on through 1872 in other parks if started then? all the 1872 act did was unify all of the previous seperate park acts under one act, it did not create a park keeping force 2A00:23C5:F001:6201:CDCE:6F1A:26BC:E2B1 (talk) 09:37, 27 May 2023 (UTC)