South Yorkshire Police

Infobox UK Police
name= South Yorkshire Police
area= Sheffield & South Yorkshire
start= 1974
population= 1.28 million
size= 1,554 km²
officers= 3,413
title= Chief Constable
head= Meredydd Hughes
divname= BCUs
divno= 4
stations= 25
HQ= Snig Hill, Sheffield. S3 8LY
budget= £246.6m (2008-9). [ [http://www.southyorks.gov.uk/index.asp?id=326 Budget - South Yorkshire Joint Secretariat (SYJS) ] ]

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web= [http://www.southyorks.police.uk South Yorkshire Police]

South Yorkshire Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England.

The force covers an area of approximately 1,554 square kilometres (approx. 600 square miles) which is made up of the county's three boroughs (Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham), along with the City of Sheffield. The resident population is 1.2 million. The force is the thirteenth largest of the 44 forces in England, Wales & Northern Ireland.

Force headquarters is in Sheffield with the force being divided into four basic command units (BCUs): Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham & Sheffield.

The Chief Constable is Meredydd Hughes, who was appointed in September 2004.

South Yorkshire Police Authority has nine councillors (drawn from the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield), three justices of the peace, and five independent members.

The force was formed in 1974, as a merger of the previous Sheffield and Rotherham Constabulary along with part of the West Yorkshire Constabulary area (to which Barnsley Borough Police and Doncaster Borough Police had been merged into on October 1, 1968).

The force helicopter Sierra Yankee 99 has been a feature in two television series, Traffic Cops and more recently Sky Cops along with the roads policing unit.

ee also

*List of police forces in the United Kingdom
*Policing in the United Kingdom
*Hillsborough disaster

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.southyorks.police.uk/ South Yorkshire Police]
* [http://www.southyorks.gov.uk/index.asp?id=50 South Yorkshire Police Authority]