{"id":348475,"date":"2026-01-02T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348475\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:36:08","slug":"kirklees-based-police-officer-charged-with-off-duty-sex-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348475\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirklees-based police officer charged with off-duty sex offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with sexual offences and is due to appear in court next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PC Russell Grifford, 42, who was based in the Kirklees district, was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted sexual assault, a force spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charges related to off-duty offences and PC Grifford was currently suspended, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The officer was expected to appear before Bradford Magistrates&#8217; Court on 6 January, according to West Yorkshire Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with sexual offences and is due to appear in court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}