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52-614: West Yorkshire Police , formerly the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police , is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire , England . It is the fourth largest territorial police force in England and Wales by number of officers. West Yorkshire Police was formed in 1974, when part of the West Yorkshire Constabulary (itself created in 1968, and covering

104-492: A Nisa food store and a number of smaller shops. Housing in this part of Beeston is made up of almost equal proportions of late Victorian and early-20th-century terraced housing to the east of Old Lane, and newer semi-detached family and housing association properties to the west. To the south side of Dewsbury Road, there are significant areas of industrial premises. Indicators for health, economic activity and community safety in this area are broadly consistent with averages for

156-510: A bowling green. Beeston is home to two stadiums: Cross Flatts Park covers an area of 44 acres (17.8 hectares ) in the centre of Beeston. While the park formerly suffered from neglect and had a high crime rate, through the work of the Council and community groups such as Friends of Cross Flatts Park and Beeston in Bloom the park has been cleaned up and made safer and more welcoming. The park has

208-492: A criminal act: Territorial police force The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP/GRC) is the federal-level police service. It also acts as the provincial police service in every province except for Ontario , and Quebec , which operate provincial police services, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador , which is served by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary . The RCMP is also contracted to act as

260-475: A grade II* listed scheduled ancient monument originally built for the storage of crops, have been dated to between 1448 and 1490. By the early 17th century the area had a reputation for manufacturing bone lace , and by the middle of the century, coal-mining was underway in the area. According to David Thornton, in December 1688 rumours abounded in the town [of Leeds] that an army of Roman Catholics were ravaging

312-430: A hillside facing north to the centre of Leeds, came in the nineteenth century to be called Beeston Hill. This area was formerly called Cat Beeston (and variant spellings), a name first attested in 1398 as Catbeston and Cattbeston . The Cat element is also found in a local field-name, Cadtheweit (whose second element comes from Old Norse þveit , meaning 'clearing'), attested in 1202. The Cat element could come from

364-507: A large multi-use games area which includes five-a-side football pitches, basketball courts and tennis courts, while the park boasts an artificial cricket pitch, a children's play area and outdoor gym equipment. The park is the venue for the Beeston Festival which takes place annually in June, and in summer and school holidays is host to numerous activities for young people. The park hosts

416-710: A large number of awards, including, in 2011, the Regeneration and Renewal Magazine Regeneration Award for Sustainability, with judges praising the holistic way it addressed sustainability and provides real regeneration benefits to a deprived area. Robb Street and Avenue are likely named after its architect George C Robb, who was chief housing architect for RAH Livett, Leeds Housing Director and later City Architect. Beeston has at least ten churches of several denominations including Church of England , Roman Catholic , Methodist and Baptist . The Anglican churches of St Mary on Town Street and St Luke on Malvern Road were constructed in

468-632: A much larger area) was amalgamated with the Leeds City Police and Bradford City Police , under the Local Government Act 1972 . The force was originally known as the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police . Some older signs around the Force area, such as the one in the reception of Millgarth Police Station in Leeds city centre, read 'West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police'. The 'Metropolitan' from the police title

520-471: A weekly 5 km Parkrun every Saturday morning at 9am, over 1,000 runners have taken part in the event since it began on 30 March 2013. Holbeck Cemetery in Beeston opened in 1857 and closed to general burials in the 1940s. During the period it was operational, thousands of people were buried there with many in 'guinea graves' with several unrelated people buried in the same plot. The graves were so called for

572-658: A working men's hostel designed for the council by George C. Robb in 1936, was converted by Citu to the Greenhouse, an eco-friendly housing project. The building had been empty for a number of years and had previously been earmarked for demolition. The development, which includes 172 homes, office space and other facilities, is one of the UK's first low-carbon housing developments and incorporates wind turbines, solar panels and ground source heating as well as energy efficient materials and rainwater and greywater recycling. The development has won

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624-524: Is Cottingley , which is just under a mile away from the Town Street end of Beeston. Services between Leeds and Huddersfield are operated by TransPennine Express , stopping at Morley, Batley, Dewsbury, Ravensthorpe, Mirfield and Deighton. Beeston is served by a number of bus services along Dewsbury Road, Elland Road and Town Street, operated primarily by First Leeds and Arriva Yorkshire ; these include: Beeston Hill and Beeston are severed from Leeds by

676-476: Is 12,500 m (135,000 square feet) and provides office accommodation as well as a 40-cell custody suite. It replaced Millgarth, and Holbeck police stations in Leeds. The existing operational support facilities at Carr Gate, Wakefield were expanded and new buildings constructed which provide centralised specialist training for the force in one location. The new facility, which totals 20,000 m (220,000 square feet) includes: From November 2012 until May 2021,

728-584: Is a specialist arts college. Matthew Murray High School situated between Beeston and Holbeck closed down in 2004 and was merged with Merlyn Rees High School in Belle Isle , to form South Leeds High School in Belle Isle. In September 2009 South Leeds High School was reopened as the South Leeds Academy . In September 2017, South Leeds Academy was renamed and rebranded as Cockburn John Charles Academy, as

780-404: Is divided into five geographic divisions known within the force as ‘policing districts’. The change in nomenclature reflects that of April 2014 the alignment with council boundaries for policing districts and the reduction of divisions in Leeds (which had three) and Bradford (which had two) so that each policing district was conterminous with its respective local authority boundaries. Each district

832-683: Is made up of Partnership Working Areas (PWA) which consist of an Inspector and three teams of sergeants, police constables, special constables and PCSOs. The first single police commander of the Bradford district, Chief Superintendent Simon Atkin, was appointed in October 2013 as part of ongoing moves to merge the district’s two policing divisions, while Chief Superintendent Angela Williams was appointed in Calderdale. The five existing divisions with their divisional identifiers are as follows: The force headquarters

884-464: Is now located on Havertop Lane, Normanton . The total area is 11,500 m (124,000 square feet) and provides office accommodation as well as a 35-cell custody suite. As a result of its construction, police stations in Wood Street, Wakefield, Normanton, and Castleford were closed. The new headquarters for the newly formed Leeds district is operational on Elland Road, Beeston , Leeds . The total area

936-452: Is recorded as having a population of 2,547 with 537 houses, a railway station and a post office , and 'by the end of the 19th century Beeston was predominantly a working class community living in back-to-backs'. Beeston was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Leeds, in 1866 Beeston became a separate civil parish , on 26 March 1904 the parish was abolished and merged with Holbeck and became part of Leeds in 1925. In 1901

988-767: Is situated on Laburnum Road to the north of Wakefield city centre along with the Learning and Development Centre and specialist operations facility at Carr Gate, Wakefield at Junction 41 of the M1 motorway . The Sir Alec Jeffreys Building in the Calder Park Business Estate (at Junction 39 of the M1 motorway) houses the Yorkshire and The Humber Scientific Support Service and was opened in May 2012 by Sir Alec Jeffreys himself. West Yorkshire Police

1040-638: Is surrounded by areas which have become popular with businesses, such as Leeds city centre , Tingley and many of the business districts along the south side of the River Aire . The neighbouring White Rose Shopping Centre employs thousands of full- and part-time staff. Beeston is home to the Beeston Centre of the Leeds City College (formerly Joseph Priestley College ) and Elliott Hudson College . Beeston has one secondary school, Cockburn School which

1092-467: Is the 'lead force' for scientific support and provides such services for North Yorkshire Police , South Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police . The current estate of police stations and other buildings is changing with certain buildings closing and new buildings opening. As of 2014, there are three PFI projects completed and as a result of these new buildings a number of police stations have closed and been sold. Wakefield district police headquarters

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1144-594: Is the Cross Flatts area. This name is first attested in 1636, as Crossflatts and other spellings. The Middle English word flat meant 'piece of level ground, field', but the precise significance of 'cross' is unclear. It is thought to refer to some cross-shaped pattern of field divisions. The origin of the settlement is likely to be Anglo-Saxon. Beeston is first mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book , when it had recently been granted to Ilbert de Lacy (1045–93); in 1066 it had been worth 40 shillings (£2), but in 1086 it

1196-539: The West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner was Mark Burns-Williamson . In 2021, his role was abolished when Tracy Brabin was elected Mayor of West Yorkshire and assumed responsibility for the force. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) conducts a periodic police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) inspection of each police service's performance. In its latest PEEL inspection, West Yorkshire Police

1248-592: The Beeston and Holbeck ward of Leeds City Council , which has since its creation in 2004 consistently been represented by Labour councillors. Parts of Beeston Hill to the north of Cross Flatts Park are located within the Hunslet and Riverside ward. This was created in 2018, and largely corresponds to its predecessor City and Hunslet, created in 2004. This was too has invariably returned Labour councillors since 2004. Hilary Benn (Labour) has been MP since 1999 when he won

1300-484: The Labour Party from 1955 to his death in 1963, after whom a primary school in the area is named. The playwright Willis Hall attended Cockburn High School in Beeston as did the academic and author of The Uses of Literacy , Richard Hoggart . The poet Tony Harrison was brought up on Tempest Road and went to what was then Cross Flatts county primary school. More recently, the actress Holly Kenny who starred in

1352-545: The M621 and therefore benefit from very good links with the M621 motorway, as well as the M62 which runs close to Beeston to the south of Morley. Much of Beeston's traditional heavy industry and fabrication works have closed throughout the last forty years. However, there are substantial areas of industrial and commercial development around Elland Road and to the south of Dewsbury Road and Beeston

1404-493: The United Kingdom (UK) the phrase is gaining increased official (but not yet statutory ) use to describe the collection of forces responsible for general policing in areas defined with respect to local government areas. The phrase " Home Office Police" is commonly used but this is often inaccurate or inadequate as the words naturally exclude forces outside England and Wales , but include some special police forces over which

1456-496: The medieval period. It remained a small settlement until the latter part of the Victorian era when it became a primarily residential area for people working in Leeds and surrounding industrial areas like Holbeck and Hunslet . At the time of the 2011 Census , Beeston had a population of 22,187 (which included Holbeck). Some parts of the area, around Cross Flatts Park, suffer from relatively high levels of deprivation, while areas to

1508-497: The 1870s these roads remain as Elland Road and Dewsbury Road respectively. By 1822, Beeston had a population of 1,670. Until the 19th century, Beeston had been a small mining village situated on a hill overlooking Leeds. However, during the Industrial Revolution , land that had been occupied by open pits, as well as land formerly utilised for farming, was snapped up for high density residential development. By 1872, Beeston

1560-459: The 1870s, though the former is on the site of a much older church. The more modern church of St David Waincliffe on Dewsbury Road, constructed in the 1960s was designed by Geoffrey Davy and won a Hoffman Wood (Leeds) Gold Medal for Architecture. There are three mosques in Beeston, all located within the Beeston Hill area. There is also a Sikh Gurdwara . Most parts of Beeston are located within

1612-462: The City of Leeds as a whole. Beeston Hill is largely made up of areas of older Victoria terraces and newer social housing, which comprises around a third of the housing stock in the area. In April 2008, a £93 million PFI scheme to build 700 private and housing association dwellings and regenerate some existing stock was announced. As a particularly deprived area, Beeston Hill along with Holbeck

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1664-763: The City of Leeds as a whole. The west of Beeston around Elland Road has significant amounts of industrial estates, with a substantial amount of mainly semi-detached and terraced housing to the western edge of the Parkside and Cross Flatts area. This also forms much of the Old Village side of Beeston, as can be seen in many of the houses along Town Street/Milshaw. Beeston has a main-line railway line running along its western edge along which all services between Leeds and London King's Cross and London St Pancras run; however, there are no stations along it, as Beeston station closed to passengers in 1953. The nearest railway station

1716-604: The Cockburn MAT opened a new school. There are seven primary schools in the area. Beeston has a range of facilities. It has two large health centres, Elland Road stadium and the John Charles Centre for Sport . Leeds city centre is a short distance away and the M1 and M62 motorways are easily accessed. Cross Flatts Park has many facilities, which include 5-a-side football pitches, tennis courts, two separate play areas one for older children and one for younger children and

1768-572: The Home Secretary has some power. The police forces referred to as "territorial" are those whose police areas are defined by: Members of territorial police forces have jurisdiction in one of the three distinct legal systems of the United Kingdom – either England and Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland . A police officer of one of the three legal systems has all the powers of a constable throughout their own legal system but limited powers in

1820-525: The Old English word catt ('cat, wild-cat') or from a personal name Cada . Recent scholarship prefers the latter interpretation, in which case Cat Beeston once meant 'Cada's estate characterised by bent-gress', while Cadtheweit meant 'Cada's clearing'. To the west of Beeston lies Beeston Royds, whose name is first attested (as Beyston Royds ) in 1633. The royds element comes from the Old English word rod ('clearing'). Another district of Beeston

1872-517: The UN from time to time. These were usually formed from police personnel on loan from member countries. A recent example is the use of such a force in East Timor in substitution for Indonesian National Police . Beeston, Leeds Beeston is a suburb of Leeds , West Yorkshire , England located on a hill about 2 miles (3 km) south of the city centre. The origins of Beeston can be traced back to

1924-574: The centre and south are generally considered more affluent. Beeston is home to the Leeds United football club stadium on Elland Road and Hunslet rugby league club. The name Beeston is first attested in the Domesday Book , in the form Bestone . The name seems to come from Old English * bēos 'bent-grass' (L. Agrostis ) and tūn 'estate, village'. Thus it once meant 'estate characterised by bent-grass'. The northern area of Beeston, situated on

1976-422: The east, and Parkside and Cross Flatts to the west. The distinction between these two areas has probably existed since medieval times when they were two separate manors. Beeston - Elland Road and Millshaw is primarily industrial and centred on Elland Road to the west of the area. The Parkside and Cross Flatts area of Beeston, sometimes locally known as Beeston Village, is centred on a shopping centre comprising

2028-663: The factory was vacated in the 1990s, and is now home to Nampak Cartons. In 2006, the district was the setting for much of the film Mischief Night . Beeston is an inner-city area located close to Leeds city centre. It is severed from the areas to the north by the M621 motorway , separated from Middleton by Middleton Park and from Cottingley by the Leeds Outer Ring Road . Beeston can be described as three distinct areas. Beeston - Parkside and Cross Flatts area and Beeston Hill are separated by Cross Flatts Park which runs between Dewsbury Road and Town Street: Beeston Hill to

2080-531: The other bombs landing on Cross Flatts Park. In his 2005 poem "Shrapnel", Tony Harrison , who was in Beeston on the night of the raid, speculates whether this was an act of heroism by the German pilot, a theory that has been explored ever since the raid. Holbeck Cemetery, in Beeston, also features prominently in Harrison's 1985 poem " V ". Beeston was formerly home to card and board game manufacturer Waddingtons , though

2132-675: The other two legal systems. Certain exceptions where full police powers cross the border with the officer are when officers are providing planned support to another force such as the G8 Conference in Scotland in 2005 or COP26 officers of the Metropolitan Police who are on protection duties anywhere in the United Kingdom and when taking a person to or from a prison . The United Nations (UN) has operated territorial police forces in those parts of countries which have been under control of

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2184-472: The parish had a population of 3323. On the night of 14 March and early hours of 15 March 1941 , during the Second World War , Leeds received its worst night of German aerial bombing. Beeston had more bombs dropped on it than any other district of the city and although Flaxton Terrace was damaged during the night time air raid , escaped with the less damage than most other areas of Leeds with nearly all

2236-624: The seat following the death of Derek Fatchett who had been MP for Leeds Central since 1983 . Before the 1997 general election , Beeston was part of the Morley and Leeds South constituency , represented from its creation in 1983 to 1992 by Merlyn Rees and from 1992 to 1997 by John Gunnell . Before the creation of the Morley and South Leeds constituency the area was part of the Leeds South constituency represented until 1963 by Hugh Gaitskell , leader of

2288-513: The shared headstones on which a single-line inscription cost one guinea (21 shillings ). Henry Rowland Marsden , the Victorian industrialist and former mayor of Leeds, is buried in Holbeck Cemetery where his family grave is marked by a Grade II-listed memorial. The poem " V " by Tony Harrison, published in 1985, describes a visit to Holbeck Cemetery and his reaction to finding his parents' tombstones vandalised. In 2008 Shaftesbury House,

2340-524: The surrounding area. Ralph Thoresby recorded, 'Beeston is actually burnt, and only some escaped to bring the doleful tidings! The drums beat, the bells rang backward, the women shrieked, and some doleful consternation seized upon all persons ... (B)lessed be God! The terror disappeared, it being a false alarm, taken from some drunken people.' Between 1740 and 1820, the Leeds-Elland and Dewsbury-Leeds turnpike roads were built through Beeston; nationalised in

2392-715: The territorial police force in Nunavut , Yukon and the Northwest Territories in addition to being the federal police force in those Canadian territories. A separate Sahrawi indigenous unit serving the Spanish colonial government was the Policia Territorial . This gendarmerie corresponded to the Civil Guard in metropolitan Spain . It was commanded by Spanish officers and included Spanish personnel of all ranks. In

2444-509: The township around 1233, and a chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin may also have been founded in the 13th century. The oldest buildings in Beeston today date to the 15th century. Cad Beeston (also Cad-Beeston, Cat Beeston, Cat-Beeston) manor house has been dated by dendrochronology to about 1420, and is a grade II* listed building ; recently used as private offices, it is now a private dwelling, with no public access. Parts of Stank Hall Barn,

2496-586: Was considered waste, presumably because of the Harrying of the North . It was one of the ten 'out-townships' of the Parish of Leeds until the parish was broken up in the 1840s-50s. In the medieval period, Beeston was associated with sheep-farming : the monks of Kirkstall Abbey grazed 240 sheep there. Founding Drax Priory in the 1130s, William Paynel granted it land in Beeston. A small hospital seems to have been founded in

2548-591: Was dropped in 1986 when the metropolitan county councils were abolished. Proposals made by the Home Secretary on 21 March 2006 would see the force merge with North Yorkshire Police , South Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police to form a strategic police force for the entire region. This did not take place. On 12 December 2006, Sir Norman Bettison was announced as the new chief constable, replacing Colin Cramphorn and resigned from his post on 24 October 2012. He

2600-572: Was rated as follows: The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. Since 1900, the following officers of West Yorkshire Police are listed by the Trust as having died during the course of their duties in attempting to prevent, stop or solve

2652-583: Was replaced by Temporary Chief Constable John Parkinson until the appointment of Mark Gilmore as chief constable on 1 February 2013. In 2018, it was reckoned West Yorkshire Police would lose 400 officers from its 4,800 officers due to austerity . In August 2023, the West Yorkshire Police attracted controversy when they arrested an autistic 16-year-old girl in Leeds for telling a female police officer that she looked like her 'lesbian nana' while in her own home. For operational purposes West Yorkshire Police

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2704-445: Was the beneficiary of Objective 2 European funding. Beeston Hill has a relatively high level of empty housing as well as a number of significant unoccupied commercial premises. Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population, with around 40% of the population from BME Communities. The area suffers from a high level of deprivation, with indicators for health, economic activity and community safety substantially worse than for

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