South Yorkshire Police
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| Area | Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster (South Yorkshire) |
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| Size | 1,554 km² |
| Population | 1.28 million |
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| Formed | 1974 |
| HQ | Snig Hill, Sheffield. S3 8LY |
| Budget | £260.3m (2010-11).[1] |
| Officers | 3,413 |
| BCUs | 4 |
| Stations | 25 |
| Chief Constable | Robert Dyson |
| Website | www.southyorkshire.police.uk |
South Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England.
The police 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 and Northern Ireland.
Force headquarters is in Sheffield with the force being divided into four basic command units (BCUs): Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
The last Chief Constable was Meredydd Hughes, who was appointed in September 2004. Meredydd Hughes retired in September 2011, leaving Robert Dyson, the Deputy Chief Constable, acting as Chief Constable until a successor is appointed.
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's roads policing unit and its helicopter, Sierra Yankee 99, have been a feature in three television series, Traffic Cops, Sky Cops and (more recently) Police Interceptors.
