South Yorkshire Police said it "recognises the immense pain and suffering" of its previous failings following yesterday's official apology.
Senior officers said police failures were the main cause of the Hillsborough disaster and apologised for "profoundly failing" the families in the decades since. Leaders from the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council made the statements as part of a national police response to the Right Reverend Bishop James Jones' 2017 report.
Ninety-seven Liverpool supporters were unlawfully killed as a result of a crush on the terraces at the Hillsborough stadium at the Sheffield Wednesday ground in April 1989. The police are the first major public body to respond to the report, which called for a "duty of candour" for officers who fail to cooperate with misconduct probes.
