Talk:South Wales Police

Disambiguation

Perhaps there should be a page to disambiguate between the South Wales Police itself and the South Wales Police Rugby team? I ended up at the page looking for information about the rugby team which was relatively prominent in the '80s, not thinking that I'd end up at a page for the force itself! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.51.201 (talk) 23:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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List of police stations

The list of police stations appears to be outdated. The South Wales Police website only lists eight stations.

• Barry
• Bridgend
• Cardiff Bay
• Cardiff Central
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Neath
• Pontypridd
• Swansea

This may only be the stations that have a front desk that is open the the public. Some stations that formerly had front desks may be still used by the police as office space, but should we classify these as police stations? I propose to limit the list to these eight stations. Any comments? Verbcatcher (talk) 15:31, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Update

Hello all, Much of the content was quite out of date, some of it from 2014. I've refreshed it to add more current information.

I'd like to add some sections on current organisation of the force, departments and specialist units etc, but am struggling for sources. The force website is quite sparse, does anyone have any sources we could use?

Finally, i'm trying to upload some more up to date images. But again, struggling for sources. Any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rantalope (talk • contribs) 14:32, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Nice work, keep it up! I would look at both of the local Police & Crime Commissioner and HMICFRS websites. The former will have the annual statements, the latter will have inspections. Both are a good reliable third party sources. As for pictures, the best place is flickr and just hope someone has published under a compatible licence (select "Commercial use & modification allowed"). Search for "south wales police" and my guess is you'll get nothing but Australian pictures, so be more precise like "cardiff police" or "merthyr police".

A few style points b.t.w. Don't forget that <ref> always goes immediately after punctuation with no space. I would avoid reference names like ":0" as these are the ones typically generated by bots. Give it is sensible short name (without quotes) such as officerrole. There's no need to do a redirect to include punctuation as you did with University of South Wales. You removed some citation needed tags in the infobox, updated the figures, but didn't provide a citation - you need to do that or leave the content as is / or delete it. --10mmsocket (talk) 16:31, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

w.r.t. Images, you should also go through all the existing images in Wikimedia Commons and put them into the commons category [[Category:South Wales Police]]. There are quit a lot of images in the various existing Welsh police and police station categories that could be moved across to the correct category. 10mmsocket (talk) 17:12, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks very much, I've added citations to the infobox. I'm going to have a look at your other advice now :) thanks again --Rantalope (talk) 14:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)