Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, has maintained that Sheffield is a safe city despite a firearm murder on Wednesday. An unnamed 21-year-old was shot outside the Diamond Hand Car Wash on Burngreave Road at approximately 6:45pm on...
A teenager pretended to spray paint on a Sheffield tram before running across live tram tracks in an attempt to copy a dangerous TikTok subway surfers trend. The short clip shows the girl 'spraying' a tram before running off across the tracks and eventually being...
Neighbours have spoken of their shock and devastation after a woman was found dead yesterday and a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The 33-year-old local woman has been named as 'Danielle Louise', a hairdresser, who lived at Edenthorpe Dell, Owlthorpe....
The fraud co-ordination team at South Yorkshire Police have warned residents about scam calls regarding national insurance. Police began to receive reports of these calls a few weeks ago and have since confirmed that they are in fact fraudulent. Victims of the scam...
Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Sheffield for the city's fourth ‘Kill the Bill’ protest on International Workers' Day campaigning against the newly announced Policing Bill. Around 800 people gathered at Devonshire Green and Barkers Pool last weekend as...
South Yorkshire Police have been welcoming new dogs to their fleet in the SYP Dog Support Unit and one new Cocker Spaniel had a slightly controversial name on arrival. Yes, Vladimir Putin the Cocker Spaniel arrived at the Dog Training School for assessment last week....
Operation Sceptre is an anti-knife crime campaign carried out by UK police forces, focused upon taking knives off the streets and reducing the devastating impact caused by weaponised attacks. South Yorkshire Police have taken an active role in the operation by...
South Yorkshire Police have released a warning to residents after receiving reports of a mobile scam, in which a scammer claims to be a police sergeant. On Tuesday, the SYP Twitter account revealed the fake sergeants had been contacting members of the public,...
Officers will begin patrolling dog walking areas such as parks after it was announced 63 dog thefts were recorded since last July. The most recent report came only yesterday when a woman was approached in Kilnhurst and two men attempted to steal her dog. Melanie...
A martial artist is offering free self-defence seminars for scared dog walkers in Sheffield, following a rise in dog thefts in the past year. South Yorkshire Police (SYP) have said the thefts are linked to organised crime groups, with pedigree breeds most at risk due...
South Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was attacked in Gleadless, Sheffield. The incident took place at around 12:20pm on Monday 15 February near a bus stop on Gleadless Road, close to the Newfield Green Shops. The 25-year-old woman was left...
Three men have been charged in connection with a firearms incident in Westfield, Sheffield on Monday night. Isiah Ellis, 21, of Shortbrook Way, Benjamin Wilks, 20, of Spinkhill View and Chris Collins, 31, of Grange Road have each been charged with attempted murder and...
South Yorkshire police are taking the next step in finding a man they think is responsible for a racially-charged hate incident in Doncaster last month. A family of three were approached in Sandal Park in Wheatley by a man on a bicycle, who removed his mask and...
Simmonite Butchers have said to have suffered from their second attack of vandalism since their opening on Division Street seven years ago. Vandals smashed the left side of the shop window last night, Wednesday 4 March. Carl Simmonite, 47, owner of the independent...
The 74-year-old who died in a crash in Brampton-en-le-Morthern last week has been named as John Webb. The police were called to a collision at 8.30pm last Tuesday by the driver of a vehicle believing she’d hit something. Initial searches were carried out to try and...
