Divisional Commander : Chief Superintendent Ian Kennedy
Welcome to Airedale and North Bradford Division.
Below you will find contact information and opening times for our main local stations. Above is a Divisional index with links to our Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPTs). Once you find your local NPT page, you will be able to subscribe to receive free, regular updates via email.
You can contact the police at any time by telephone:
Telephone 999 in an emergency where there is a danger to life, or a crime is in progress.
Telephone 0845 6060606 for non-emergencies where police attendance is required, to report a crime or to report any other incidents.
You can also contact your local team direct by phone or by email, use the links above to find your local team and their respective contact details.
The division covers both urban and rural areas and its headquarters is based at Airedale House, Royd Ings Avenue, Keighley.
Policing centres around the wards of: Keighley Central, West and East , Craven, Worth Valley, Ilkley, Wharfedale, Bingley, Bingley Rural, Shipley, Baildon, Windhill and Wrose , Eccleshill, Thackley and Idle, Bolton and Undercliffe, Heaton and Frizinghall, Thornton and Allerton, Clayton and Fairweather Green.
As well as the divisional headquarters in Keighley there are sub-stations in Shipley, Bingley, Eccleshill and Ilkley.
The division attracts tourists to Ilkley and Haworth – home of the famous Bronte sisters and the Keighley and Worth Valley Light Railway – as well as the tourist attraction of Saltaire, Salts Mill, and Shipley Glen. The large Inland Revenue Centre and the Headquarters of the Bradford Health Authority are also based in the division.
By Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Ian Kennedy
Welcome to the home page of Airedale and North Bradford division.
I am very pleased to have taken over as Divisional Commander at Airedale and North Bradford Division. I plan for my staff to keep improving Police standards in the division, to keep crime falling and to help officers deliver standards of Policing residents can be proud of.
I have only been in post a short time but already I have begun to get out and about in communities to see them for myself, and I am keen to drive the Force forwards in the District.
The important thing for me is to find out more about the area and the communities that we police. I look forward to meeting partners to ensure we work together and that my staff are delivering a quality of service and standard of investigation that we can all be proud of. Crime has been falling in Airedale and North Bradford and that good work is something we now need to build on.
Very positive initiatives I am keen to build on from the last 12 months include work to tackle serious violent crime in Keighley and the expansion of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system last winter. The £300,000 scheme saw the scheme expand across Bradford District and was launched with a major operation to tackle road related crime and saw Police seize over 100 uninsured cars and arrest 26 people.
I have been very pleased to hear of the success which have taken place over the last 12 months such as this roll out of the expanded ANPR camera network to cover Bradford District. Systems such as this can have a significant impact in improving safety whilst making life difficult for offenders. They are excellent tools for Police officers.
I intend to carry on work to further embed Neighbourhood Police Teams into communities to ensure we are delivering a truly local police service for our residents and implementing the Policing Pledge. A lot of good work has been carried out to deliver improvements on our streets and this is something I intend to build on with my officers over the coming months to make sure all our communities are receiving the local service they expect and deserve.
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