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 [
1]. The Home Secretary eventually obtained a court order suspending Westwood. [
2] 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.[
3] [
4]
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. [
5]
ProViDa is the standard in-car video unit used; the new 1997
Jai/ProViDa is also used too.
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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Humberside Police Authority
