Humberside Police
Encyclopedia : H : HU : HUM : Humberside Police
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| Area | East Riding, North Lincolnshire |
| Size | 3,517 km² |
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| Formed | 1974 |
| HQ | Kingston-Upon-Hull |
| Officers | 2,252 |
| Divisions | 4 |
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| Chief Constable | Paul Scott-Lee QPM |
| Website | [Humberside Police] |
Humberside Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing an area covering parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. The Chief Constable is Tim Hollis.
It was created in 1974 as a merger of other forces under the Local Government Act 1972, along with the non-metropolitan county of Humberside. It was a successor to the Hull City Police, and part of the areas of the York and North East Yorkshire Police, the old Lincolnshire Constabulary and the West Yorkshire Constabulary.
Since the abolition of Humberside in 1996, the local authority members of the Police Authority are now appointed by a joint committee of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire.
The Police Authority shot to the national headlines in mid 2004 when it refused to sack Chief Constable David Westwood despite instructions from the Home Secretary, David Blunkett [link]. The Home Secretary eventually obtained a court order suspending Westwood. [link] The Authority had come under pressure to sack Westwood due to the Soham Inquiry blaming in part failings in Humberside Police.
It returned to the headlines in 2005 when Colin Inglis, its chairman at the time of the crisis appeared in court charged with indecent assault. Mr Inglis was cleared of all allegations in July 2006.[link] [link]
Proposals made by the Home Secretary on March 21, 2006 would see the force merge with North Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police to form a strategic police force for the entire region. [link]
Police video
ProViDa is the standard in-car video unit used; the new 1997 Jai/ProViDa is also used too.Police cars
Humberside Police commonly use Proton, Vauxhall and Ford vehicles.The vehicles used by Humberside Police can be split into two main categories - general patrol and duty vehicles (most of which are Protons) and Traffic cars (most of which are Volvos). There are a large number of other vehicles including several Subaru Impreza Traffic cars. The majority of the vans are Ford Transits or Mercedes Benz Sprinters.
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