Devon and Cornwall Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly) in England. The force serves approximately 1.8 million people over an area of . History The force was formed on 1 April 1967, by the amalgamation of the Devon and Exeter Police, Cornwall County Constabulary and Plymouth City Police. These three constabularies were in turn amalgamations of 23 city and borough police forces that were absorbed between 1856 and 1947. Between 1856 and 1947, police in Devon and Cornwall used a number of different names. They were gradually absorbed into two of the existing forces called Devon and Exeter Constabulary and Cornwall County Constabulary, except Plymouth City Police which remained separate. In 1967 the three remaining forces were amalgamated into one called Devon and Cornwall Constabulary or Devon and Cornwall Police. Chief constables 19671973 Colonel Ronald Berry Greenwood 19731982 John Cottingham Alderson 19821984? David Albert East 1984?1989 Donald Elliott 19892002 Sir John Stanley Evans (knighted in 2000 New Year Honours) 20022006 Maria Wallis 20072012 Stephen Otter 20132022 Shaun Sawyer 2022present Will Kerr Officers killed in the line of duty The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. Since 1814, the following officers of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary and its predecessors were killed while attempting to prevent or stop a crime in progress: Town Sergeant Joseph Burnett, 1814 (shot attempting to disarm two drunken soldiers) PC William Bennett, 1875 (injured arresting a man for assault) PC Walter Creech, 1883 (stabbed by a man he warned) PC John Tremlett Potter, 1938 (fatally injured by two burglars he disturbed) PC Dennis Arthur Smith, 1973 (shot by a suspect he was pursuing) PC Christopher Francis Wilson, 1977 (contracted a fatal illness after being spat on during a disturbance at a football match) PC Joseph James Childs and PC Martin Ross Reid, 1978 (drowned after their car was swept into the sea during a storm) Oversight Since 5 May 2016, the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner is Alison Hernandez, who represents the Conservative Party. The police and crime commissioner is scrutinised by the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors