About Us

Responsibility for policing is shared between the Home Secretary, the Chief Constable and the Police Authority. This ensures that the police service delivered to the people in the Humberside Force area relates local priorities to local and national targets.

The Police Authority is an independent body with clear statutory duties. Its key duty is to secure the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force for the Humberside Police area.

The Authority sets the budget and local objectives for the Force and monitors its performance against targets set in consultation with the Chief Constable and the National Policing Objectives as set by the Home Secretary.

The Authority has responsibility for approving and monitoring the annual budget, setting the level of Council Tax that is used to fund policing in the Force area, and ensuring that the service delivered by the Force reflects the concerns and views of the communities it serves. The Authority consults the people in the Humberside Police area about how they are policed and uses the results to determine the objectives and priorities for the police force. These priorities are set out in the Authority's annual Policing Plan.

The Authority also monitors the performance of the Force in delivering these priorities and produces Local Policing Summaries which include annual performance reports. The views and comments received from the public play an integral role in assessing the success of the policing service delivered in the Humberside Force area.

The Authority appoints Chief Officers to Humberside Police and deals with any complaints against them. Another vital function is to run the Independent Custody Visitors Scheme that monitors the welfare of persons detained in police stations.

As an accountable and diverse body the Authority plays a vital role in ensuring that the public receives the kind of locally focused policing that it needs, deserves and has asked for.

The Association of Police Authorities (APA) has produced a short ten point guide to what Police Authorities do.  Please click here to download the APA's two page guide.