The centre of Bradford will come to a standstill tomorrow as people line the streets to pay their final respects to policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky.

The 38-year-old officer's funeral procession will make a poignant hour-long journey to Bradford Cathedral for a service attended by senior police officers and politicians.

The cortege will pass the spot in Morley Street where the married mother-of-five was shot dead on November 18 last year.

And it will halt outside the Bradford Central police station in The Tyrls, where PC Beshenivsky was based.

West Yorkshire Police today released full details of the route of the cortege to the funeral service.

Vantage points along the route will be set aside for the public to watch the procession, including a horse-drawn hearse, which begins at 11am from Easby Road.

It will travel from there into Morley Street, passing the scene of the shooting, then turn right into Chester Street, into Little Horton Lane and left into Princes Way.

It will cross to the opposite carriageway so it can pause close to The Tyrls police headquarters, where a guard of honour will join the

procession.

The cortege then crosses Centenary Square in front of the Town Hall into Market Street and turns right at the new roundabout into Lower Kirkgate.

It turns right into Canal Road and left up the steep Church Bank, left into Stott Hill and left again into Cathedral Close and into the Cathedral grounds.

The cathedral service, which starts at noon and will last about an hour, will be attended by family, police officers and politicians but it will also be shown on a large TV screen to people gathered at St George's Hall.

The service will be followed by a private burial.

Police are warning motorists to expect significant delays in the city centre as the cortege makes it way to the cathedral and some roads will be closed.

Superintendent John Robins, of Bradford South Police, advised drivers to avoid the city centre from 11am if they could.

He added: "We expect a large turnout of our own officers and staff, and the public, which is a continuing reflection of the huge public response Sharon's death got from the people of Bradford."

The Government will be represented at the service by Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Police Minister Hazel Blears. Local MPs, including Gerry Sutcliffe, Terry Rooney and Marsha Singh also hope to attend.

Chief Constables from forces throughout the UK will rub shoulders with 400 of PC Beshenivsky's colleagues in the West Yorkshire force who will be in the cathedral and along the route.

Leaders of Police Federations, which represent rank and file police officers, from across the country will also attend. They included West Yorkshire chairman Tom McGhie and a number of his colleagues.

Senior West Yorkshire Police Authority members, including chairman Councillor Mark Burns-Williamson and deputy chairman and Bradford member Clive Richardson, will be at the service.

PC Beshenivsky lived with her husband Paul, 42, two of their children, Paul, seven, and Lydia, four, and her two stepchildren, Emma, 13, and ten-year-old Joshua, at Hainworth, near Keighley. Her son Sam, from a previous marriage, lives with his father.

She was shot dead - on the day of Lydia's fourth birthday - outside the Universal Express travel agents in Morley Street as she answered a personal panic alarm at the premises with colleague PC Teresa Milburn, 37, who was shot in the shoulder.

An inquest, opened last week in Bradford, heard that PC Beshenivsky died from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Two men, Yusuf Jama, 19, and 24-year-old Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, have been charged with her murder and remanded in custody to await trial later this year. A third suspect, Mustaf Jama, 25, is still on the run.