Wakefield City Police

[2] In 1876 the police station moved to half of a renovated building known as the 'Tammy Hall', which had been constructed in 1778 and when the southern half had been demolished to make way for the Town Hall, the northernmost part of the building was refurbished to form a new police and fire station.

[5] The largest and latest addition to the force area came in April 1951 when the parish of Crigglestone and what would become the Kettlethorpe estate was added to the Milnthorpe beat.

Below is a list of the locations of the police boxes in the 1950s:[10] The Traffic Department was set up in 1945 and in 1952 two patrol cars were the first to be installed with VHF radio.

West Riding Constabulary was linked by telephone to the Home Office Regional Wireless Station at Kippax which broadcast medium wave radio transmissions, before being replaced by VHF.

[12] Originally there was going to be two radio channels, 'A' covering West Riding Constabulary patrol vehicles and the 'B' channel covering ancillary vehicles of West Riding, the fire brigade and the other police forces however this took too long to come to fruition, so Wakefield City withdrew from the agreement.

The force area became the Wakefield Division of the new force with all officers working from the former West Riding premises in Wood Street (Wood Street Police Station was closed and replaced in 2014 by a PFI new-build divisional headquarters on Havertop Lane, Normanton) The former police station in the city centre closed its doors at 0900hrs on Tuesday 1 October 1968.