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Force Performance

Last year (April 2006 - March 2007) waschallenging, but Humberside Police madesustained improvements in many areas.

IMPROVEMENTS

Total Recorded Crime

Nationally there was a 2% reduction in crimelevels. Humberside Police achieved areduction of 2.7% (almost 3,200 less victimsof crime).

Vehicle Crime(Including theft of and from vehicles)

Vehicle crime fell by 11.8% locally (over1,800 less victims). This was one of thelargest reductions seen nationally in 2006/07.Fear of vehicle crime also continued to fall.

Burglary (from people’s homes)

Burglary fell by 8.0% locally (almost 600 lessvictims). This reduction was around twice thatseen nationally in 2006/07.

Sanction Detections**Sanction detections are cases resulting in acharge, summons, caution or other formalsanction.

Detections continued to increase, from20.4% in 2005/06 to 24.5% in 2006/07(exceeding our 23% target).

The target this year is to achieve a rate of atleast 27%.

Police Recruitment

As part of our initiative to create a workforcethat is supportive of the community, we nowhave (at the end of 2006/07):

108 volunteers active on NeighbourhoodPolicing (up from 0 in 2005/06)23.7% female officer representation(up from 21.9% in 2005/06)344 Special Constables(up from 327 in 2005/06)Police Community Support Officers

However, the proportion of police officers werecruited from ethnic communities was only0.9%, despite events held within thesecommunities to promote policing as a career.

ISSUES

Although there were some significant andsustained improvements, there were also anumber of areas where performance was notso good.

Violent Crime

Violent crime increased by 4.9% (around1,200 more offences). Some of this rise wasdue to the increased use of fixed penaltynotices for disorder. Robbery (which isclassified as a violent crime) rose by 20offences in 2006/07.

However, more serious violence against theperson fell by over 320 offences (46.3%reduction)

The aim for 2007/08 is to reduce violentcrime significantly.

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Local Policing Summary Foreword

Alene Branton, MBE, Chair ofHumberside Police Authority

“ It gives me great pleasure to be able topresent you with this summary of localpolicing activity for your area. I havebeen an independent Member ofHumberside Police Authority for sixyears now and was unanimouslyelected as Chair of the Authority inJune this year, a position that I amproud to hold.

This summary of local policing isintended to provide you with keyinformation regarding how your localpolice service is performing, plans forthe future and how you can becomemore involved.

At the start of the year HumbersidePolice Authority set challenging prioritiesand targets for Humberside Police.We wanted to see a reduction in crime,and increase in detections, dedicatedneighbourhood policing teams in all

communities and an improved responseto calls for service. I am pleased toreport that at the end of the yearimprovements have been maderesulting in disengagement from thePolice Standards Unit and we can lookforward to the future with confidence.

At the end of 2006/07 overall crimehas fallen by 2.7%, detections haveincreased by 4.1% and calls for serviceare now being dealt with in an efficientand professional manner.

As Chair of your local Police Authoritymy commitment and promise to you isthat we will continue to challenge andscrutinise Humberside Police to ensurethat these improvements in service aremaintained and built upon to guaranteeyou a service that meets your needs.

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Local Policing Summary Foreword

Become a Special ConstableBe part of the team that makes yourcommunity feel safe.

The Special Constabulary is a major partof local Neighbourhood Policing Teams.Members of the Special Constabulary arejust the same as regular police officers,with similar powers and duties. The onlydifference is that they’re volunteers.

‘Specials’ assist regular officers andPCSOs in Neighbourhood Policing Teamsby providing support for communityengagement and problem solvingactivities.They also provide operationalsupport in order to prevent or detectoffences, preserve life, keep the peaceand enhance the quality of life of thecommunity.

If you’re 18 or over, and would liketo join, you can request an applicationform from Humberside Police on0845 6060 222. Alternatively, find outmore about what it’s like beinga Special Constable by visitingwww.humbersidepolicejobs.co.uk

Local Policing Summary forewordby Chief Constable Tim Hollis.

I am naturally delighted that thesignificant improvements in policingacross Humberside have now beenformally acknowledged by the HomeOffice and Her Majesty’s Inspectorateof Constabulary. The pride andconfidence is back in the force as isa real determination to continue buildingon those improvements. My priority for2007-08 is further to develop ourNeighbourhood Policing Teams acrossall our communities. The publicfeedback to the increasing numbers ofPolice Community Support Officers tobe seen on our streets is veryencouraging and they arecomplementing the work of regularofficers, Specials and police staff inso many ways. I am confident thatgood times are ahead forHumberside Police.

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The Humberside Police Youth & Community Centre formerly The Boys Club

For those wanting further information please contact:

RACHEL ABRAM (Youth Support Officer)Office: 01482 708104 Mobile: 07810 688 788Email: [email protected]

Address: Miss Rachel Abram, Youth Support Officer,Humberside Police Youth & Community Centre,The Club House, Elm Avenue, Garden Village, Hull,East Yorkshire. HU8 8PZ

The Humberside Police Youth & CommunityCentre was set up in 1943 by the ChiefConstable at the time to divert young peoplefrom crime and Anti Social behavior.

In 1963 the Club became a registered charityallowing it to apply for different fundingstreams.

The Club offers activities to any child,young person or adult who lives in theHumber Police area. Its members currentlycome from a variety of backgroundsincluding disadvantaged and excludedgroups in society.

The aim of the centre remains. Preventingcrime by providing a variety of diversionaryactivities. Over the years it has alsodeveloped to include getting young peoplephysically fit and healthy through sportingactivities. Reducing the fear of crime byproviding information and resources to clarifyand reassure people and providing activities

to reduce isolation for older members of thecommunity.

The Club provides an extensive programmeof activities predominantly run by volunteers.

This includes Boxing, Martial Arts, Football,Play Clubs, Local History, Pensioners DanceClasses and Pilates Classes. The Club isopen seven days a week 8 am to 10 pm.

The Club has approx 50 young peopleregularly attending the boxing section.Both boys and Girls over the age of nine.A recent success of the Club has been oneof the females boxers has been invited totrain with the British Boxing Squad.

The Judo Club have also had a similarsuccess with one of there female membersgoing to train with the Female British JudoSquad with a view to taking part in the 2012Olympics if successful. They haveapproximately 25 members.


Humberside Force Independent Advisory Group – Get Involved.

Humberside Police Authority support andadminister the Force Independent AdvisoryGroup.

This group is made up of members fromdiverse communities across Humbersiderepresenting the six strands of diversity.Their role is to ensure that the policies,strategies and practices of HumbersidePolice do not have an adverse effect on anyof the communities in Humberside. They canalso be called upon to act as critical friendsand advisors to Humberside Police indifficult situations when dealing withcommunity tensions.

If you have strong links to your diversecommunity and are interested in becominga group member please download anapplication form from our websitewww.humberside-pa.org.uk or callVictoria Wise for a chat on 01482 307234.

The six strands of diversity are:

• Gender• Age• Disability• Sexual Orientation• Ethnicity• Religion


Policing Kingston Upon Hull - ‘D’ Division

0845 60 60 222 - Our single non-emergency telephone number999 - Emergencies only0800 555 111 - CrimestoppersTo find out when you can visit someone at your local Police Station please logon to www.humberside.police.uk or call the single non-emergency number.

Contact Details for Humberside Police


For Non-Emergencies Contact 0845 60 60 222

Numbers of Staff in D Division figures full-time equivalent at 1st April 2007

Police Constables 543Police Sgts 105Inspectors 24

Police Civilian Support Staff 126Police Community Support Officers 98Special Constables 111


About Policing in Hull

As the Police Commander for the city of Hull,I am both pleased and proud to tell you aboutthe future direction of policing in the cityduring the course of the next 12 months.We have clear ambitions around making Hulla safe and strong city, within which peoplecan safely live, work, visit and study.

Based upon consultation with communities,I have set a number of priority areas for mycolleagues and partners to focus upon:

• We will be reducing crime further, below thelevels recorded in previous years and byMarch 2008, we will have achieved a 30%reduction in recorded crime on the levelsexperienced during 2003/4.

• We will bring more offenders to justice,especially those that are prolific andpersistent and provide an excellent qualityof service to victims and witnesses tocrime. We will detect 27% of recordedcrime in Hull during 2007/2008.

• We will provide a policing service across thecity that is visible and accessible, one thatprovides a reassuring presence to localneighbourhoods.

In this, the third year of my policing commandin Hull, we have established a firm foundationof policing based upon Neighbourhood

Policing Teams (NPTs) that mirror the sevenneighbourhood areas of the city. Each ofthese teams is led by an Inspector andcontains multi-skilled members of staff whoare Police Officers, Police CommunitySupport Officers (PCSOs) and SpecialConstables. The teams are supported byvolunteers, who assist in opening Policestations at key times and I have set prioritiesfor NPTs to tackle criminal damage,anti-social behaviour and to solve localproblems, in partnership, at the requestof local people and communities.

Working in support of NeighbourhoodPolicing will be the Incident ResolutionTeams, based at Beverley Road andBransholme Police Stations. These teamsprovide 24 hour cover in responding swiftlyand effectively to critical incidents that occur,particularly around crime, public disorder andother more serious events. It is their job todeal with these incidents quickly, taking everyopportunity to arrest offenders wherepossible and provide an excellent service tovictims and witnesses.

During 2007/2008, I was enormously proud ofthe fact that the Division reduced all recordedcrime by 8%, achieving big reductions inareas of burglary of the home, vehicle crimeand criminal damage. Much of this isattributable to the work of NeighbourhoodPolicing Teams and Incident ResolutionTeams. I was also proud that the Divisiondetected over 24% of all crime within the cityand this was a significant achievement on thepart of the Crime Investigation Teams,who are structured in Hull to deal withserious, series and volume crime. The Crime

DivisionalCommanderChief SuperintendentSean WHITE


Neighbourhood Policing Team

Neighbourhood Policing in Hull

Chief Inspector Scott Young

Neighbourhood policing in Hull is delivered byseven Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPTs),each covering the same area as the Hull CityCouncil Area Teams. There are four NPTinspectors with one commanding RiversideNPT whilst the other three each commandtwo NPTs, West and Wyke, Park and East,and Northern and North Carr.All NPTs have a sergeant responsible formanaging day to day policing, exceptRiverside where there are two sergeants.Volunteers assist the Police in keeping thelocal police stations open for at least 8 hoursa week. Each neighbourhood (local authorityward) has a dedicated Neighbourhood PoliceOfficer supported by at least three PoliceCommunity Support Officers and a numberof Special Constables.

All neighbourhoods have a Community SafetyAction Partnership, these Partnerships meetevery three months and decide on thecommunity safety priorities for thatneighbourhood. Any member of thecommunity is welcome to attend and it is thecommunity themselves that decide thepriorities and receive an update from policeand partners on what has been done aboutthe previously identified priorities.

An essential part of the work of NPTs is todeal with these community priorities,alongside their other priorities of reducingcrime and disorder.

Neighbourhood Policing Teams aim toprovide dedicated, identifiable, accessible,

Investigation Teams provide very professionaland thorough support to making Hull saferand their efforts in both detecting crime andbringing prolific and dangerous offenders tojustice in the last year is noteworthy.

In summary, it is my ambition, on behalf ofthe citizens of Hull, to make the city a saferand stronger place. We have achievedsignificant performance gains against thetargets set for us within the last 12 monthsand in the coming year I know that the stablepolicing environment and strengtheningpartnership arrangements in the city will allowus to move forward towards our overallambition. I know that the men and womenwho work with me in the city of Hull will givesterling service during 2007/2008 and I willbe pleased to report upon our achievementsduring the year.



West Area

Since June 2006 the Neighbourhood PolicingTeam has been meeting at ward level with thecommunity to determine policing priorities.These are then resolved involving our partneragencies, the police and the community. Everthree months the priorities are reviewed andprogress reported back to the community.

The WEST Neighbourhood Policing Team isbased at the Police Station on PickeringRoad Hull. Inspector Duncan Collins hasoverall responsibility for the area. SergeantRuss Whittle has responsibility Boothferry,Derringham and Pickering Wards. Each wardhas a dedicated beat manager and threePolice Community Support Officers.

The west area comprises of the Boothferry,Derringham and Pickering Wards of the city.It has a diverse mixture of housing types,with council housing intermingled with privateowned housing and a number of industrialand retail premises.

The current priorities for West Area are

Boothferry Ward

Priority 1Reports of anti-social behaviour involvingyoung people in various locations around the

knowledgeable and responsive officers whowill improve neighbourhood conditions andfeelings of security.

Police Community SupportOfficers

There has been a huge increase in thenumber of Police Community SupportOfficers working in Hull over the past year,from only having a presence in Riverside toall neighbourhoods currently having at leastthree. This will increase further during 2007/8.The fundamental role of the PCSO is tocontribute to the policing of neighbourhoodsprimarily through highly visible patrol. Thepurpose of reassuring the public, increasingorderliness in public places and beingaccessible to communities. PCSOs provide areassuring presence in all areas of the citydealing with anti social behaviour, low levelcriminality, and working with communities toassist solving the problems that affect theirquality of life.

Many residents have taken the time to writein and praise PCSOs. The following is aquote from a resident who wrote to the ChiefConstable after PCSOs were called to help.

the officers who attended wereincredibly courteous and helpful andeven took the time to give me somesecurity advice I would just like to saythat both officers are a credit to yourorganisation.

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“Inspector DuncanCollinsWest and WykeNeighbourhoodPolicing Teams



WYKE AREA

Since June 2006 the Neighbourhood PolicingTeam has been meeting at ward level with thecommunity to determine policing priorities.These are then resolved involving the partneragencies the police and the community.Evey three months the priorities are reviewedand progress reported back to thecommunity. The current priorities for eachward are:

The WYKE Neighbourhood Policing Team isbased at the Police Station at 19 PearsonPark Hull. Inspector Duncan Collins hasoverall responsibility for the area.Sergeant Adrian Marsden has responsibilityAvenue, Bricknell and Newland Wards.Each ward has a dedicated beat managerand three Police Community SupportOfficers.

The Wyke area comprises of Avenue,Bricknell and Newland Wards of the city.It has a diverse mixture of housing types,with local authority housing intermingled withprivately owned and private rented houses.Wyke is unique in terms of the rich diversityof the people living in the area which ensuresa cosmopolitan environment.

Avenue Ward

Priority 1Pearson Park -many local residents arefearful of crime during the evening/night.Lighting is poor, there have been reportedincidents of assault, arson and vandalism.There have been reports of young mencongregate in the Park which can triggerconflict. We have made this our first priority.

ward, including alcohol-related disorder andsome damage to property.

Priority 2Illegal use of motorcycles on public highwayand waste land.

Priority 3Reported burglaries - dwellings andnon-dwellings.

Derringham Ward

Priority 1Reports of anti-social behaviour involvingyoung people in various locations around theward, including alcohol-related disorder andsome damage to property.

Priority 2Reported burglaries - dwellings andnon-dwellings.

Pickering Ward

Priority 1

Ongoing issues surrounding a local HighSchool, pupil’s anti-social behaviour before,during and after school hours, truancy,environmental issues and poor publicperception of the school.

Priority 2

Illegal use of motorcycles on public highwaysand waste land.



North Carr

The wards in North Carr NeighbourhoodPolicing Team are Kings Park Ward,Bransholme East Ward and BransholmeWest Ward.

Officers from North Carr NPT has spent asuccessful year working with partners toaddress the issues affecting residents in theArea. During a concentrated 3 month periodlast summer the NPT targeted the illegalriding of mopeds, go-peds and mini-moto's.Over 30 vehicles were seized by NPT officersalone, significantly reducing the number ofcalls from residents regarding this issue. Asimilar effort (Operation Vaughan) towardsthe end of the year targeted criminaldamage. This resulted in a reduction by over30% in recorded criminal damage offenceswhen compared to the same period 12months earlier.

Northern

The wards in Northern NeighbourhoodPolicing Team are Beverley Ward, UniversityWard, Orchard Park and Greenwood Ward.

Operation Espionage 2 developed the goodwork of the previous year in tackling theillegal riding of mopeds, go-peds and mini-moto's. Working with the Council's Anti

Priority 2Alcohol related disorder on Princes Avenue.

Priority 3Anti social behaviour by young people.

NEWLAND WARD

Priority 1The Increase in licensed premises onNewland Avenue has given rise to increasein the number of alcohol related incidentsand anti social behaviour. We have madethis our first priority.

Priority 2A Burglary hotspot in the predominantlyterraced student rented areas of Newland.

Priority 3Various Road Safety issues including cyclingand road layout matters.

Bricknell Ward

Priority 1Young people congregating in groups onstreets. Drinking on streets and causinganti social behaviour.

Priority 2Shed and garage burglary in theBricknell Area.

Priority 3Nuisance motorbikes using open land andcausing disturbance and endangeringresidents.

Inspector IainDixonNorth Carr and NorthernNeighbourhoodPolicing Teams



East NeighbourhoodPolicing Team

The wards in East Neighbourhood PolicingTeam are Ings Ward, Sutton Ward and LonghillWard.

We wanted to determine the 3 priorities for thewards and we held community consultationmeetings. We adopted a café style approachwhere members of the public sat at tableswith a facilitator from one of the partneragencies and discussed the problems on theirward. Having identified the priorities they werethen encouraged to come up with solutions tothe problems. The feedback was thateveryone was giving the opportunity to havetheir say and to be heard. The meetings werewell attended showing that communities in theeast of Hull are committed to improving theirneighbourhoods.

With funding from the community safety fundofficers have purchased 3 mountain bikes.The bikes have been an instant successenabling a highly visible and accessiblepresence by officers. They have been used inthe seizing of 3 mini motorcycles and a quadbike, the dispersal of a group of 50 youths,and the subsequent seizure of alcohol fromthe youths. We also arrested a man who ranout of Jackson’s having stolen a crate of beer.He was detained by 2 PCSOs who chasedhim on the mountain bikes.

Social Behavior Team and the Area Team aco-ordinated approach was taken to deal notonly with the specific offence but the widerissues affecting residents. Offenders weretargeted by prosecution, the confiscation ofvehicles, Anti Social Behavior Order and thethreat of eviction from their homes if they areCouncil tenants. Our Operation Duplex hasfocused on reducing criminal damage, bothby targeting offenders and identifying repeatvictims. This focus will continue into 2007/08.

Riverside

The wards in Riverside NeighbourhoodPolicing Team are Drypool Ward, MytonWard, St Andrews Ward, Newington Ward.

Operation Borneo, working with Partners inthe City centre has lead to150 arrests andsixty-six £80 fines for disorderly behaviour.In addition there have been numerous alcoholseizures and several prolific nuisances havebeen given prison sentences for breach oftheir anti social behaviour orders. Eight otheroperations have been in action across theRiverside Area. Police constables and theirPCSO colleagues have arrested offenders forburglary, robbery and murder. The team havelistened to public priorities and are currentlyworking to improve residents’ lives in the fourward areas.

InspectorAndrew FosterRiversideNeighbourhoodPolicing Team

Inspector BillGrieveEast and ParkNeighbourhoodPolicing Teams


Local Policing Summary

Hull Citysafe

Hull Citysafe is a partnership organisationcharged with delivering community safetyservices.

2006-2007 has been a successful year for theHull. Crime reduction figures are nowexceeding 30% on average across the city.

There are particularly high levels of crimereduction around vehicle crime, withreductions being in the region of 58%on Theft of a Vehicle.

Away from headline crime figures, work hasbeen undertaken to make the Partnershipeven more effective. These changes include:

CCTV and Civic One was transferred toCitysafe in July of last year. This area isresponsible for one of the country’s largestCCTV schemes and the provision of all out ofhours calls for the local authority. This hasnow been realigned with the wider prioritiesof the CDRP. In June of this year TradingStandards and the Environmental Crime Unitwere transferred to the management ofCitysafe. This has brought about anopportunity to further align the work ofenforcement services and brings with it thepotential to develop a community intelligencefunction. This will enable us to deliver basedon accurate and relevant intelligence andevidence.

Park NeighbourhoodPolicing Team

The wards in Park Neighbourhood PolicingTeam are Holderness Ward, SouthcoatesEast Ward, Southcoates West Ward andMarfleet Ward.

Again we adopted a café style approach.The public valued the meeting stating‘How nice it was to be able to voice theirconcerns’. The style of the meeting avoidedit being dominated by individuals with theloudest voice.

Our Mountain bikes have also been usedon the area. These have been multi agencypatrols specifically directed at anti socialbehaviour. A police officer, a policecommunity support officer and an anti socialbehaviour officer patrol on bikes armed witha head camera. The footage is used to showparents what their children get up to.

The neighbourhood team have 4 officerstrained in the use of trials bikes. To addressnuisance motorcycles we ran a one weekoperation over February half term and seized14 motor bikes used illegally on the ParkArea.


Local Policing Summary

Included within these sections arecounterfeit, credit and fraud, fair trading,quality standards, animal health, licensing,fireworks, explosives, vehicles and aconsumer advice centre which contains awealth of knowledge, information andbackground.

Local Involvement

The Hull City Council has created sevendistinct areas created each with their ownarea committee structure and devolved localauthority services. This has allowed for theapplication of an area based tasking systemfor crime and disorder reduction drawing onpartner agency resources. The police operatewithin boundaries so that they arecoterminous with local authority boundaries.

It is widely acknowledged that police servicesalone cannot solve all issues and concernsrelating to community safety and it is byworking as a partnership team that realbenefits can be seen. In Hull last year partneragencies agreed to undertake a new methodof delivery based around a ‘Common TaskingFramework’ and to include consultation andengagement with residents on their prioritiesconcerning community safety.

Without detracting from normal day to daydelivery of services, meetings take place at award level and residents are invited todiscuss their issues and priorities. Partneragencies facilitate the meetings at the end of

which 3 priorities are identified for that ward.The multi agency responses to these are thenformulated, the information and actions arecaptured, with reports back to residents on aquarterly basis where they will decide if theproblem has been solved or if new issueshave arisen. Issues currently being identifiedrange from environmental, streetscene,speeding, crime issues to contact withservices.

The new system will allow all partnersinvolved in the problem solving process toaccess a system from their own base, withgraded levels of access, to incorporate theiractivity using an intelligence computersoftware package, updating information andallowing an overall picture of all partneractivity across the city to be generated.The system will be administered by Citysafe.

For more information and adviceabout Hull City Safe please call:

(01482) 615022


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