The Police and Crime Plan, issued by Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Evison, covers the period from November 2024 and March 2029 and states the following three aims:
- Engaged, resilient and inclusive communities
- Our aim is to provide pathways for everyone to contribute to the safety of our communities
- Safer communities
- Our aim is to focus activities on interventions that significantly impact on local crime levels
- Effective organisations
- Our aim is to make the system work better for local communities
Each aim has a series of outcomes and objectives to demonstrate what we will do to achieve them, with the Plan existing to provide strategic direction to Humberside Police and all partners operating in the area of public safety.
The OPCC has identified a series of achievements through to 2028 that will contribute to the aims of the Police and Crime Plan, as detailed below.
ENGAGED, RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES
AIM
Provide pathways for everyone to contribute to the safety of our communities
OUTCOMES
This plan aims to deliver:
- Greater trust and confidence in the police across urban, rural and coastal areas and in all communities
- People are confident to report crime, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and incidents to the most appropriate agency
- Improved outcomes for people affected by crime and ASB
- Residents and businesses are supported to respond to crime and community safety issues
- Communities are cohesive and people feel safe where they live
NEW ACTIVITY FOR 2026/28
| Where we are now | Product |
|---|---|
| The OPCC will increase scrutiny over standards of professional behaviour in policing, including misconduct | Provide learning and relevant challenge to drive up standards of professional behaviour within Humberside Police |
| There is a need to develop a more proactive communications and campaigns plan for the final two years of the PCC and OPCC to ensure full understanding of the work of the office and how this will transition into new governance arrangements | Public and partnership organisations understand our role and the proposed transition to the new Policing Board approach |
| The business community has expressed a lack of confidence to report crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB). There are limited engagement points to share concerns and receive advice and support from community safety partners | Engage with the business community to understand their issues, create solutions using technology to assist in routine communication and tools to improve community safety |
| Businesses need access to support to take practical steps to deter crime and secure their property | Launch a business crime grant scheme to support target hardening of premises |
| There is a Business Crime Prevention Partnership in place that was created to improve the response to business crime | Use this and other business networks to provide awareness of key issues such as domestic abuse, hate crime and wider staff protection programmes. Explore a business charter with standards which help encourage reporting and inclusive culture |
| Designing out crime officers at Humberside Police have the potential to broaden their service offer to business and in turn becoming more commercial with their service offer and generating income | Develop a clear commercial offer that can be approved to take to market and assist the force to provide a service to the business community |
| Cohesion remains an area of risk in relation to the changing shape of communities and their perceptions of the risk of crime | People feel safe where they live and are tolerant of difference. Bring together partners to create a programme of ideas to support more activity in this space |
| Burglary has been identified as one of the primary areas of community concern | Target hardening materials to be delivered to identified properties and the opportunity taken to engage with residents around wider crime and community safety issues |
| Agencies conduct separate impact assessments when they first meet victims of crime, resulting in rework and re-traumatisation | Assess the feasibility of a single needs assessment for victims to be held by Victim Support and shared with partners |
| The OPCC has a scrutiny panel overseeing cases where hate crimes are reported. They have identified that many instances occur in the workplace and want to generate a workplace campaign to raises awareness of reporting and support for victims | Work collaboratively to create a series of campaign materials that can be used to encourage reporting of hate crime offences and support those impacted by hate crime |
BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE OPCC
- Routine engagement at community events to raise awareness of the latest crime threats
- Campaigns to raise awareness on reducing the risk and threat of crime. E.g. fraud
- Regular community surveys to understand the priorities of residents and their experiences
- Providing grant monies to Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) for them to improve community safety
- Ongoing engagement with CSPs to collaborate on local issues and opportunities
- A range of victim services to support those impacted by crime
- Establishing a victims and witnesses group in order to take a collaborative approach
SAFER COMMUNITIES
AIM
Focus activities on interventions that significantly impact local crime levels
OUTCOMES
This plan aims to deliver:
- The reduction in harm to young people affected by crime and community safety issues
- The reduction in high harm grimes through a multi-agency, public health approach
- The reduction in reoffending
- Ensuring vulnerable people are protected from harm
- Safer roads for all users
- Safer public spaces for resident and visitors
NEW ACTIVITY FOR 2026/28
| Where we are now | Product |
|---|---|
| The Hotspot Action Fund ended in March 2026 and hotspot policing is expected to continue as business as usual. Funding has been confirmed for the Knife Crime Concentration Fund to support problem-solving in small geographical areas | A programme of funded activity delivered through the Knife Crime Concentration Fund to reduce knife and weapon-enabled violence |
| Emerging themes of risk linked to illegal cigarettes and vapes | Understand the extent of the issue and potential for harm. If evidence suggests issues, create a harm-reduction strategy with clear actions |
| E-scooters are bought easily on the high street with little understanding from the public on their legal use and safety concerns with storage and disposal | Greater understanding of those buying and using e-scooters of their legal use and keeping safe |
| It has been identified that use of drugs and alcohol can increase the level of harm to victims of domestic violence (DA) | Previous national pilots of sobriety tags indicated positive use with DA offenders. Work with partners to consider re-introduction and evaluate the impact |
| Work has been undertaken to pilot a partnership with St John's Ambulance to provide first aid training to young people and those that may be exposed to violence | Commission a programme of training to provide people who may find themselves in a situation awaiting ambulance care with life-saving skills |
| There is a government commitment to reduce violence against women and girls by 50 per cent and a Police and Crime Plan objective to champion partnership working in this area | Learning from work in tackling DA using a public health approach to begin a strategic approach to prevention and reduction of violence against women and girls (VAWG) across partnerships and the Humber area, creating a clear plan for multiagency learning |
| Some victims of crime benefit from restorative justice conferencing and mediation. Wider use and innovation can be explored when recommissioning the service | A difference restorative justice service commissioned in collaboration with anti-social behaviour (ASB) teams, Police DIVERT and probation, focussed on innovative use and best impact on community safety |
| Proactively seeking a bid and grant opportunity to support Humberside Police to tackle drug driving more proactively | More detection and improved pathways for drug drivers to reduce offending |
| Evidence suggests ketamine use in Humberside is prevalent and has long lasting health harms | Increase awareness of the harms and reduce usage through a partnership campaign with video and resources that highlight harm and educates people into prevention and support |
| The public have a limited number of ways to report via phone, police stations and online. The Ethics and Scrutiny Board provided feedback on a range of wider reporting options for inclusivity at third party organisations which need re-establishing and promoting | A network or authorised, trained and accredited third party reporting centres able to support crime reporting inclusively in communities |
| Limited communication channel with parents and carers for purposes of providing them access to resources to prevent the young people they look after becoming impacted by crime | Fully develop parental and carers communications channel to include social media, web resources and direct communication via school newsletters |
| There are limited options for police officers to divert those outside of the court system to rehabilitate via unpaid work | Explore solutions that would allow referrals to unpaid work or training for adults and young people that may be better rehabilitated outside of the court process and provide an offer across the force that can be evaluated to assess impact at reducing reoffending |
| There are numerous volunteers operating for schemes to improve road safety that have expressed interest in receiving access to body-worn video to help improve feelings of safety | Where all volunteers have access to equipment that helps them feel safe while in their role |
BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE OPCC
- Not In Our Community resources created and widely available online
- Partnership working via the Violence Prevention Partnership (VPP)
- Substance misuse investment in co-commissioning with local public health partners to reduce the risk of drug-related acquisitive crime
- Managing grant schemes and contracts
- Maximising funds available through Safer Streets programmes and ensuring their impact is felt by the community
- Support for Circles Of Support, preventing re-offending of high-harm sex offenders
- Provide input to Safer Roads Humber to ensure the view of the public are articulated at board level
- Ongoing analysis to understand the local crime profile
EFFECTIVE ORGANISATIONS
AIM
To make the system work better for local communities
OUTCOMES
This plan aims to deliver:
- Effective partnerships and collaboration
- More funding and resources for the Humber area
- More social value from your money
- Innovative approaches to community safety
- Contribute to achieving net zero carbon emissions for your area
- A police force equipped to meet community needs
NEW ACTIVITY FOR 2026/28
| Where we are now | Product |
|---|---|
| Years of funding the Community Safety Fund (CSF) has seen investment made in a range of different areas including target hardening and youth diversion | We want the key impacts and outcomes of the CSF clearly identified, and lessons learned highlighted and used to inform future funding |
| The White Paper makes clear that there will be a different model of police governance at the end of this PCC term in May 2028 | In a position to transition seamlessly into the new policing governance model in May 2028 |
| There is a need for improvement of information sharing and pathways into victim support for those impacted by road collisions | Road traffic collision contact data to be included within the auto data transfer into Victim Support ensuring people impacted by road traffic collisions can then be signposted to the Road Collision Safety Network |
| There is a perception that decisions are made without understanding the impact on victims. There are many case studies that display significant impact on victims from poor decision making within the criminal justice system | The OPCC will be a stronger voice for victims, collating their experience and sharing this back through the system. We will then communicate how the feedback shapes service |
BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE OPCC
- The OPCC has a culture of responding to bid opportunities and has brought in significant additional resources to the area
- Collaborations in place for a variety of delivery functions and commissioned services
- The Police and Crime Commissioner chairs the Criminal Justice Board, provides significant funding to the Community Safety Partnership and attends various partnership boards across the Humber area, including involvement in the Local Resilience Forum Assurance Board
- Annual employee engagement survey to monitor engagement levels in the OPCC
To view the full document of the 2026/28 Delivery Plan of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, click HERE.
