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South Yorkshire Police (SYP) is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England. The force is led by Chief Constable Lauren Poultney . Oversight is conducted by Mayor Oliver Coppard .
On 18 July 2024, a riot took place in the Harehills area of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The incident was triggered by a dispute over four children of a Romani family being taken into care by social services and police. [1] The situation escalated as residents, angry and filming the police, gathered, forcing the police to retreat.
In 1991, the South Yorkshire Police were forced to pay out £425,000 to thirty-nine miners who were arrested in the events at the incident. [1] Other less well known, but also bloody, police attacks took place, for example, in Maltby, South Yorkshire. [2] 2010: Policing of the student protests included the controversial technique of kettling.
The Battle of Orgreave was a violent confrontation on 18 June 1984 between pickets and officers of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) and other police forces, including the Metropolitan Police, at a British Steel Corporation (BSC) coking plant at Orgreave, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. [1]
Emergency services declared a major incident in Yorkshire as several fires broke out in the English county on July 19, during a record-breaking heatwave in the United Kingdom.Temperatures in the ...
Non-police issue firearms were recovered from the address in question. [68] Lawful killing [69] James Wilson [70] 29 March 2016 South Shields, England Northumbria Police: Direct Wilson was shot by a plastic bullet, and a live round from a police firearm after he refused to lower the rifle he was carrying, after being told to do so seven times. [71]
Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire 43-year-old Metcalfe was found dead under a bridge on Station Road in Wath, near Rotherham, on Sunday 14 October 2001. He had been assaulted and may have died up to two days earlier. Police appealed for anyone who was out in Wath that weekend to come forward. [101] c. 20 October 2001 Hugh Cameron
Live scan is commonly used for criminal booking, sexual offender registration, civil applicant and background check. In the UK, many major police custody suites are now equipped with Live Scan machines, which allow for suspects' fingerprints to be instantly compared with a national database, IDENT1 , with results usually reported in less than ...