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County police are the police of a county in the United States, Sweden and England (formerly throughout Great Britain).

1 Sweden
2 United Kingdom
3 United States
- 3.1 US Departments
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Sweden

All of the 21 Counties of Sweden contains a County Police Department of the Swedish Police Service.

United Kingdom

In England, the police are divided into regional forces based on counties (sometimes amalgamations of two or three counties), which all provide full services throughout their districts. Police forces in Scotland and Wales also used to be organised on a county basis, but are now amalgamated into a number of larger regional forces: eight in Scotland and four in Wales. Northern Ireland is historically policed on a national basis, first by the Royal Irish Constabulary, then the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which was reformed in 2001 as the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has never been policed on a county basis.

United States

Depending on the jurisdiction, in the United States, county police tend to exist only in metropolitan counties and have countywide jurisdiction. In some areas, there is a sheriff's department which only handles minor issues such as service of papers such as a constable in other areas, along with security for the local courthouse. In other areas, there are no county police and the local sheriff is the exclusive law enforcement agency and acts as both sheriff and county police, which is much more common than there being a separate county police force. County police tend to fall into three broad categories:

Full-service police departments, which provide the full spectrum of police services to the entire county, irrespective of local communities, and may provide contractual security police services to special districts within the county.
- Hawaii - Hawaii has only county police, there are no local police.
Limited service police departments, which provide services to unincorporated areas of the county (and may provide services to some incorporated areas by contract), and usually provide contractual security police services to special districts within the county.
Restricted service police departments, which provide security police duties to county owned and operated facilities and parks. Some may also perform some road patrol duties on county built and maintained roads, and provide support to municipal police departments in the county.

Note:County detectives, which are maintained in the northeastern states by county attorneys' offices, also fall within this category.

US Departments

There are eighty county police departments in the United States, including:

A

Albemarle County Police Department, Albemarle County, Virginia - full service
Allegheny County Police Department, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - restricted service
Anne Arundel County Police Department, Anne Arundel County, Maryland - limited service
Arlington County Police Department, Arlington County, Virginia - full service
Athens-Clarke County Police Department, Clarke County, Georgia - full service

B

Baltimore County Police, Baltimore County, Maryland - full service
Bergen County Police Department, [1] Bergen County, New Jersey - limited service
Broome County Sheriff's Department, Broome County, New York - full service
Broomfield Police Department, City and County of Broomfield, Colorado - full service

C

Camden County Park Police Department, Camden County, New Jersey - restricted service
Chesterfield County Police Department, Chesterfield County, Virginia - full service
Clark County Park Police Department, Clark County, Nevada - restricted service
Clayton County Police Department, Clayton County, Georgia - limited service
Cobb County Police Department, Cobb County, Georgia - limited service
Cook County Sheriff's Police Department, Cook County, Illinois - limited service

D

DeKalb County Police Department, DeKalb County, Georgia - limited service
Delaware County Courthouse and Park Police Department, Delaware County, Pennsylvania - restricted service
Denver Police Department, City and County of Denver, Colorado - full service
Dougherty County Police Department, Dougherty County, Georgia - limited service

E

Essex County Police, Essex County, New Jersey - restricted service

F

Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax County, Virginia - Full service
Floyd County Police Department, Floyd County, Georgia - limited service
Fulton County Police Department, Fulton County, Georgia - limited service

G

Gaston County Police Department, Gaston County, North Carolina - limited service
Glynn County Police Department, Glynn County, Georgia - limited service
Gwinnett County Police Department, Gwinnett County, Georgia - limited service (serves unincorporated Gwinnett County, and the cities of Berkeley Lake, Buford, Dacula, Grayson, Rest Haven, and Sugar Hill)

H

Hawaii County Police Department, Hawaii County, Hawaii - full service
Henrico County Division of Police, Henrico County, Virginia - full service
Henry County Police Department, Henry County, Georgia - limited service
Honolulu Police Department, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii - full service
Horry County Police Department, Horry County, South Carolina - limited service (full time service of all unincorporated areas of Horry County, South Carolina and part time service of certain municipalities within the county by contract)
Howard County Police Department, Howard County, Maryland - full service