[1][2] Wells was one of the original 178 boroughs named in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 which required boroughs to appoint a watch committee with a duty to appoint sufficient numbers of constables.
[2] A government report in 1851 outlined that the force still only had four constables to police the city at an annual cost of £119, 8 shillings and 8 pence.
[3] The county in which Wells is situated, Somerset, had no modern police force until 1 September 1856 when Somerset Constabulary was formed.
Wells City Police was consolidated into the new Somerset Constabulary within a matter of weeks on 14 October 1856.
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