Wood Street Police Station

For a century, Wakefield had two different police stations and two distinct courts, all in the Wood Street area.

The City Police, whose police station was first in King Street, and then after 1880 in the former Tammy Hall building, had jurisdiction over crime in the Wakefield Borough (after 1880, Wakefield City) limits, and petty crime was heard by the City Magistrates in the Court Room in the Town Hall.

The Lower Agbrigg Division of the County Police had jurisdiction over the area around Wakefield outside the City limits, and their police station was at first in the Court House, and later in Wood Street.

Much later, the large building on the corner of Rishworth Street and Wood Street, which had originally been built as offices and laboratories for the County Medical Officer of Health, was taken over by the County Police, which had by that stage absorbed the smaller City Police force.