Police car set on fire in Knottingley

    A police car was set on fire in Knottingley in the early hours of yesterday morning, 11 May.

    Pontefract and Knottingley Police are now appealing for witnesses.

    Police were called at around 1.30am to a report of a parked police vehicle on fire outside Knottingley Fire Station on Stumpcross Lane. The vehicle was unattended and no-one was injured in the incident.  

    A police spokesperson has said the fire is being treated as arson and investigations are on-going. They called the incident an “utterly stupid act” and added that "the loss of this police vehicle will have an immediate and direct impact on the local community.”

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