South Yorkshire Police

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Coverage
South Yorkshire Police
South Yorkshire Police area
Area	Sheffield & South Yorkshire
Size	1,554 km²
Population	1.28 million
Operations
Formed	1974
HQ	Sheffield
Officers	3,413
BCUs	6
Stations	25
Chief Constable	Meredydd Hughes

Website	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 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.

Force headquarters is in Sheffield with the force being divded into five basic command units (BCUs): Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City Centre and the rest of 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).