David Young is married and has lived in Wakefield for over 45 years. He has two adult children and both children attended Silcoates School before going to university.
David spent over 30years in West Yorkshire Police, serving in many roles, before retiring in 2005; his last posting being in charge of operations for the Wakefield Basic Command Unit. He had additional force-wide responsibilities including public order duties, hostage negotiator, force facilitator, recruitment and promotion assessor. During his police career he obtained a BA(Hons) degree from Bradford University. On retiring David undertook a role for Bradford Local Strategic Partnership as the Team Leader of the ‘Neighbourhood Management Team’.
After this David wrote a Foundation Degree Course in Criminal Justice for Kaplan University. Between 2008 and 2011 David was the Regional Community Cohesion Co-Ordinator for Local Government Yorkshire and Humber. Since retiring from full time employment in 2011, David has worked as a senior schools examinations invigilator.