[1] The Bath City Police, as an organization, was formed as a result of Municipal Corporations Act 1835, though it did not begin commencing duties until 15 February 1836.
[4][2] The British City of Bath, has existed in one form or another since the first century,[5][6] though human occupation in the area has a much longer history.
[7][8] At the start of the nineteenth century, 40,020 people were recorded to be living in Bath making it one of the largest cities in Britain.
4. c. 76), sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales.
This reformation was especially significant for Bath, since four of its districts were under control of four separate police forces (while another portion of the city had no police force) until the Municipal Corporations Act centralized policing authority with the city government, rather than Improvement commissioners, in each district.