Tuesday, 3 June, 2025A West Yorkshire student police officer has been sentenced today after previously being found guilty of three counts of sexual touching.PC Charlie Valente, aged 24, was sentenced to a two year community order with 200 hours unpaid work, 90 day alcohol rehabilitation program and 20 day rehabilitation program. He was also ordered to pay £8,000 court costs.He remains suspended from duty pending accelerated misconduct proceedings.Thursday, 1 May, 2025 Find out more:

Tuesday 3 June, 2026Women and girls at risk can now access more than 300 safe spaces across Kirklees after yet more businesses have offered support.   Find out more:

Tuesday 3 June , 2025Police have pledged much more is to come after helping educate thousands of children about the dangers of county lines and knife crime in Kirklees. The Dewsbury and Mirfield NPT is now looking to spread its Your Life, Your Choice Future, programme across the District after three PCSO’s provided crime prevention inputs to over 2000 children in just five months.   Find out more:

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Monday, 2 June 2025Chief Superintendent Stuart Bainbridge has been announced as the new District Commander for Wakefield.  He was promoted into the position last month following a period acting up in the role having been the Detective Superintendent in Kirklees District.  The Wakefield District Commander role was previously held by Richard Close who has since been promoted to Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for the National Police Air Service.   Find out more:

Friday 30 May 2025Police have charged a man with burglary and theft offences after a wanted appeal was issued in Bradford.  Matthew Holdsworth, aged 41 of no fixed abode has been charged with two counts of theft from shops, a burglary and two fail to appear in court warrants.  He’s been remanded into custody to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court this morning.  Officers would like to thank everyone who shared the wanted appeal.  Find out more:

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Thursday 29 May 2025New data shows members of the public are waiting an average of 13 seconds to reach West Yorkshire Police’s control room to report non-emergency incidents.  The 101 number is for non-emergency calls such as reporting situations which don’t require an urgent 999 response or passing information about an ongoing investigation.  From today, all police forces will publish their 101 call wait times, improving transparency and helping communities to understand how their local force is performing.   Find out more:

Thursday 29 May, 2025A hundred and eighty arrests have been made in a week long blitz of activity across West Yorkshire to reduce knife crime.Scores of weapons sweeps were also conducted and schools visited as part of the force’s participation in last week’s national Sceptre initiative and related Knife Crime Week of Action.   Find out more: