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What We Do

Welcome to the official website of the West Yorkshire Police Authority. The site contains information about the Authority and what we do. We also offer online access to the public documents we publish throughout the year.

West Yorkshire’s geographical area covers about 2032 square kilometres (785 square miles).

The resident population of 2.1 million people is divided between the five metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.

The policing needs of the county are diverse. West Yorkshire contains pockets of affluence and poverty. Its population includes people from a wide variety of cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Wakefield City Centre showing location of Police Authority, Police Headquarters and Wakefield Railway Station.