Huddersfield Detectives have been operating in Huddersfield and Yorkshire and Humberside for almost 20 years.
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Huddersfield is well known for its important role in the Industrial Revolution, the birthplace of rugby league and for being the birthplace of the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
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Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.
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Huddersfield is 190 miles (310 km) north of London, and 10.3 miles (16.6 km) south of Bradford, the nearest city.
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Huddersfield is near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme.
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Huddersfield is located within the historic county boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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According to the 2001 Census Huddersfield was the 10th largest town in the UK.
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Huddersfield has a total resident population of 146,234.
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Huddersfield is the largest urban area in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees and the administrative centre of the borough.
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Huddersfield is a town of Victorian architecture.
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Huddersfield's railway station is a Grade I listed building and was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid station facade in England.
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Huddersfield has been known as a market town since Saxon times.
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Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during the Industrial Revolution.
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Huddersfield had a strong liberal tradition up to the 1950s and this is still reflected in the large number of liberal social clubs in the town.
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Huddersfield is still a manufacturing town, despite the fact that the university is the largest employer.
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Huddersfield experiences a temperate oceanic climate which is relatively mild for its latitude.
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Huddersfield's railway station enjoys a comprehensive local and regional rail service.
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Huddersfield has an Australian rules football team, formed in 2008, who played their first season in 2009 and won the Aussie Rules UK National League.
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Huddersfield has a number of field hockey teams, many of which train at the Lockwood Park sports complex on the all weather pitch.
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