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Proposed policing inspection programme and framework 2025–29: For consultation

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South Yorkshire Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Michelle Skeer is HMI for South Yorkshire.

This force is in the Northern HMICFRS policing region.

HMICFRS’s assessment of South Yorkshire Police

Our PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy), and other force assessments give you information about how your local police force has performed in several important areas.

In our latest assessments of South Yorkshire Police, we made the following judgments:

 
Outstanding Good Adequate Requires improvement Inadequate
Preventing crime and anti-social behaviour Recording data about crime Responding to the public
Protecting vulnerable people Engaging with and treating the public with fairness and respect Tackling workforce corruption
Strategic planning, organisational management and value for money Investigating crime
Managing offenders and suspects
Building, supporting and protecting the workforce

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

599 square miles

Population

1.42m people
6% local 10 yr change

Workforce

92% frontline police officers
92% national level
3.57 per 1000 population
3.69 national level
7% 10yr change in local workforce
5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.07 per person
0.06 national level
12% Local 5 year trend
9% National 5 year trend

Cost

53p per person per day local
59p per person per day national

These are the latest key facts about South Yorkshire Police.

About the force

South Yorkshire Police provides policing services to the county of South Yorkshire. The police force area covers 599 square miles in the north of England.

Although there are a small number of affluent areas, South Yorkshire has a high level of poverty.

Around 1.4 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley. The resident population is increased by university students and the large numbers who visit, socialise, commute into, or travel through the county each year.

The transport infrastructure includes major rail stations and an airport.

More about this area – What South Yorkshire Police says

Connect with South Yorkshire Police

South Yorkshire Police website

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s website

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