Editing Wakefield (section)

==Public services==
[[File:HM Prison Wakefield 1916.jpg|thumb|Wakefield Prison (1916)]]
[[HM Prison Wakefield|Wakefield Prison]], originally built as a house of correction in 1594, is a maximum security prison.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wakefield Prison information |url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/contacts/prison-finder/wakefield |publisher=Ministry of Justice |access-date=17 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410230412/http://www.justice.gov.uk/contacts/prison-finder/wakefield |archive-date=10 April 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Wakefield is policed by the West Yorkshire Police force and is within the DA, Wakefield division, which covers the whole district.<ref name="WYP">{{cite web |title=West Yorkshire Police |url=http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/npt/Division.asp?id=15 |publisher=West Yorkshire Police |access-date=22 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221222444/http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/npt/Division.asp?id=15 |archive-date=21 December 2008}}</ref> Wakefield is also the location of the West Yorkshire Police Headquarters. The [[Fire services in the United Kingdom|statutory emergency fire and rescue service]] is provided by the [[West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service]], from Wakefield fire station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westyorksfire.gov.uk/stations/wakefield |title=Wakefield Fire Station |publisher=West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service |access-date=23 November 2009 |year=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222070619/http://www.westyorksfire.gov.uk/stations/wakefield |archive-date=22 February 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> 

Hospital services are provided by the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and community health services, including [[General practitioner|GPs]], district and community nurses, dentists and pharmacists, are coordinated by Wakefield District [[NHS primary care trust|Primary Care Trust]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ |title=Home.The Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust |publisher=The Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust |access-date=23 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109170824/http://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ |archive-date=9 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.wakefielddistrict.nhs.uk/ourPCT/ |title=Our PCT – Wakefield District NHS Primary Care Trust |publisher=Wakefield District NHS |access-date=23 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218182453/http://www.wakefielddistrict.nhs.uk/ourPCT/ |archive-date=18 December 2009}}
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[[Waste management]] is co-ordinated by the [[Local government|local authority]]. Wakefield's [[distribution network operator]] for electricity is [[Northern Powergrid|CE Electric]]. [[Yorkshire Water]] manages Wakefield's [[drinking water|drinking]] and [[wastewater]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/Environment/sewers.htm |title=Drainage – sewers |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=23 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114183035/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/Environment/sewers.htm |archive-date=14 January 2010}}
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