[1] It subsequently merged with four other police forces to become what is known today as Cambridgeshire Constabulary.
At this time, the force employed just thirty police officers.
Outside the town and borough there were no other police forces in Cambridgeshire until April 1851 when the Cambridgeshire County Constabulary was established, initially employing a total of seventy officers.
In 1951 the Borough of Cambridge was granted city status by HM King George VI.
Following alterations to local government boundaries the force name was changed on 31 March 1974 to Cambridgeshire Constabulary.