This legislation merged the eight separate police forces and fire and rescue services in Scotland, plus several central agencies, into single agencies covering the whole of Scotland.

Over fierce opposition, he merged the police forces of his village and the town of Ramapo and sold the village's water supply system to a private water company.

A1 A plan to link dispatching systems of the New York City police and transit police is more than a year behind schedule and may never be completed because of a dispute over merging the two police forces.

The South Wales Constabulary is created by merging the police forces of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil.

Until now, the Giuliani administration appeared to be making steady progress to merge the two police forces, a goal that was shared by Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins but which eluded them for financial and political reasons.

A Campaign Cornerstone The plan to merge the three police forces was a cornerstone of Mr. Giuliani's mayoral campaign last year.

In a first step toward merging the police forces, Mr. Giuliani has planned to consolidate the various forces' administrative offices, emergency services and detective bureaus.

This merged the eight regional police forces in Scotland, together with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, into a single service covering the whole of Scotland.

In response to these events, Prime Minister Macdonald, in 1868, merged the two police forces to form the Dominion Police (DP) which was headquartered in Ottawa.

The Police Department insists that under the 1995 agreement that merged the police forces, the authority agreed to cover all the costs involved in building the radio system.