SOUTH Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Alan Billings, is moving out of his Regent Street offices in Barnsley to take up accommodation at the force headquarters in Sheffield.
The move marks a significant change because the former South Yorkshire Police Authority was based at the Joint Secretariat offices since South Yorkshire County Council was closed down under Margaret Thatcher's regime in the 1980s.
The police authority was scrapped and replaced with the PCC system under the coalition government.
The joint secretariat provided an administrative base for countywide services which previously fell under the county council, including South Yorkshire Fire Authority, which remains based in Barnsley.
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