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Sexual assault advice and help for students. If you have been raped or sexually assaulted please remember it is not your fault. Regardless of what you might have been wearing, how much you’d had to drink or who was involved, we will never treat any type of rape as more or less serious than any other. West Yorkshire Police treat all reports of rape and sexual assault very seriously.
Friday 19 May 2023 A man has been jailed after an investigation into his internet activity revealed he had sexually assaulted young girls. 
Tuesday 30 May 2023 A Calderdale man has been sentenced to over ten years in prison for rape, indecent exposure and sexual assault of a woman deemed vulnerable. 
Monday 27 November 2023 Police in Calderdale investigating an assault are appealing for witnesses.  At 12.41pm on Sunday 13 August, police received a report of an assault in Market Street, Halifax.  
Child sexual exploitation is a type of child sexual abuse. It is the organised and deliberate exploitation of a child purely for the sexual gratification of adults. Any young person could become a victim of child sexual exploitation; the crime affects both girls and boys, from any background and of any ethnicity.
West Yorkshire Police is committed to creating an environment where women and girls can feel safe and be safe within the county, free of fear and harassment. As part of the Force’s commitment to reducing Violence Against Women and Girls, it has launched its Strategy, outlining how it intends to ensure that women and girls are safe and feel safe.
CSE is Child Sexual Exploitation. In very basic terms, it involves a victim being targeted and groomed by adults, with the intention of sexually assaulting and/or raping them.
Friday 13 October 2023 Detectives are appealing for information after an attempt sexual assault on a woman in Bradford City Centre.  Officers are investigating the incident on the grassed area of Drake Street at around 11pm on 29 July 2023.  
VAWG - Violence Against Women and Girls - West Yorkshire Police is committed to creating an environment where women and girls can feel safe and be safe within the county, free of fear and harassment. As part of the Force’s commitment to reducing Violence Against Women and Girls, it has launched its Strategy, outlining how it intends to ensure that women and girls are safe and feel safe.  As part of this the Force is focusing on three key priorities which are: Pursuit of perpetrators, Creating safe spaces (in private, public and online) - and Increasing trust and confidence in policing.
Tuesday, 5 March 2024 Police are appealing for information following a serious assault on a teenage girl in Bradford.  
Tuesday, 27 February, 2024Police are appealing for information to help locate two teenagers who have been reported missing from the Wakefield area. Chloe Cahill and Hollie Hewlett, are both aged 16.  
Tuesday 23 May 2023 A Huddersfield man who sexual assaulted vulnerable women has been jailed. Naveed Khawaja ( 55) of Yew Street, Huddersfield was jailed for three years at Leeds Crown Court on May 9 after being convicted of three sexual assaults. 
Thursday 13 July 2023 Police are appealing for anyone who was a passenger on the number 641 bus on Little Horton Lane on Tuesday 11 July at around 2.20pm to come forward. It’s after an 83 year old man boarded the bus and then fell over as the bus set off, close to the junction of Horton Park Avenue.
Sexual exploitation and child sexual exploitation (as part of modern slavery or human trafficking). A person who is trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation may be controlled by violence, threats, substance abuse, deception or grooming; this can happen to any gender, race and age and can take place in brothels, hotels, residential housing or on our streets forced to prostitute.
Friday 2 February 2024 Police are appealing for witnesses following a shop robbery in Luddendenfoot. Calderdale District CID would like to speak to anyone who can assist enquires as officers continue to investigate a robbery at the Morrisons Daily Store at Kershaw Crescent on Sunday January 28.