ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 SUMMARY OF KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Improved Force North Bank Governance and Appropriate Adult Holding to Account scheme working effectively in partnership with Hull University Purchase of Pentana Attracted further software for the OPCC £338k to the area to improve tracking of through Early progress and efficiency Intervention Youth of operations Fund Developed and agreed Recruitment of new OPCC values and new apprentices cultural pillars Successful pilot of Completed office the Community Speed refurbishment to Watch Scheme reflect our vision and culture New Domestic Abuse TUPE of finance Scrutiny Panel in place staff back to with key partners Humberside Police Staff development HR Toolkit introduced more accessible to the OPCC including higher level learning courses Creation of new Joint Collaborative activity Ethics Committee with with blue light partners Humberside Police locally as well as with North Eastern Police Forces New OPCC Humberside Police website improving receive best HMICFRS communications and inspection results in transparency with the their history public 2 Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 CONTENTS Foreword from Keith Hunter 4 Commissioner in the Media 6 Introducing the 2018/19 Annual Report - Rachel Cook 8 Strategic Management of the OPCC 10 Force Assurance 13 Humberside Independent Custody Visitor Scheme 16 Appropriate Adults 17 External Inspection 18 Communities and Partnerships 19 The Diversity Panel 22 Tackling Modern Slavery and Trafficking 24 Pride Parade and Event 25 Humberside Criminal Justice Board 26 Finance and Commissioning 27 Governance and Administration 30 2018/19 Finance Review 31 Joint Independent Audit Committee (JIAC) 33 What We Fund 34 The Engagement Team: North Lincolnshire 47 North East Lincolnshire 50 East Riding 56 Hull 62 Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 www.humberside-pcc.gov.uk 3 FOREWORD FROM KEITH HUNTER I am delighted to be able to bring you this Annual Report covering 2018/19 from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for the Humberside Police area. This is the third in my tenure as Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and I believe it illustrates the considerable progress made in creating an organisation that adds real value to the public and our communities. Although the work of the OPCC is far wider than Credit for the hard work producing these remarkable oversight of the police, I want to mention Humberside results, within a short period of time, rests with the Police, as one of the reasons you elected me was to new leadership team and the staff and officers of hold the police to account on behalf of the public. In Humberside Police. This improvement, however, 2016 Humberside Police was perceived by many as a would not have been possible without the support, failing force and my first priority was to improve the challenge and legitimate holding to account of the governance and accountability of the force. Despite Chief Constable provided by myself, ably supported the hard work and commitment of officers and staff by the staff of the OPCC. Our assurance processes across the force, there was very little confidence in scrutinise the work of Humberside Police, ensuring it the leadership team at that time who, in my view, remains committed to continuous improvement. The were failing the people who worked for them. I also clear direction to reconnect policing to communities, believe they were failing you, the public they serve. provided in the Police and Crime Plan, and the Our communities felt abandoned and voiceless in insistence on the force having planning arrangements shaping their environment, traditional neighbourhood that could deliver the aims of the Plan, underpinned policing had been completely undermined, there the challenge I set the force and the ambition I voiced were unacceptable and excessive delays when for you to have a police force to be proud of. I believe using the non-emergency 101 number and morale we are well on the way to having an outstanding within the force was the lowest in the country. police force for this area, but the police never have and never will deliver community safety alone. Fast forward to today. Humberside Police is now generally recognised as the most improved in the As I mentioned at the start, the work of the OPCC country: staff morale has grown considerably with is far wider than oversight of the police. The many associated indicators relating to sickness office has evolved into an organisation that is now and complaints against officers vastly improved instrumental in shaping the whole community safety and continuing to move in the right direction; call landscape: our Engagement Officers, based in every handling is one of the best, if not the best in the local authority area, listen to you and ensure your country; communicating with and listening to the community voice is factored into service delivery public is seen as a priority, with Neighbourhood through local partnerships; we have re-shaped our Policing being rejuvenated and recognised as the commissioning framework to ensure victims services cornerstone of policing our communities. The force and those services intended to prevent vulnerable has advanced in so many ways it is not possible people becoming victims are much more aligned to list them all in this brief introduction, but as an and contribute appropriately; we have assisted indicator it should be celebrated that for the first with the direction and support of Community Safety time in its history Humberside Police was graded Partnerships in each local authority area, so they ‘good’ in every category by Her Majesty’s Inspector once again become a key local delivery agent of of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services. improved community outcomes; we have driven key messages and activities to promote safety and diversion from crime through, for example, the fantastic ‘No More Knives’ campaign and the Boxclever Bus, seen nationally as ground-breaking ventures. 4 Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 All of these things and many more are driven through The OPCC team are a huge asset in bringing about the OPCC, which itself now hosts visits from other areas change and improvements to our communities, so they can see the potential of the role an OPCC can whether that be through the creation of new schemes adopt. Their role is way beyond merely supporting the to support volunteer opportunities, by bidding for PCC or bureaucratic oversight of police force process. new monies to increase the resources available to those communities or by identifying, adapting and This last year has seen the vision for the OPCC become adopting good practice in any area of their work. The more of a reality under the enthusiastic direction of the breadth of that work is vast and varied and I want to Chief Executive Rachel Cook, who speaks later in this express my gratitude for their critical contribution report about the work of her team. This Annual Report to the journey we have been on thus far, and for 2018/19 outlines the real, varied and detailed work what is yet to come. They should be proud of their undertaken by the OPCC in working towards the Aims of part in advancing the cause of creating safe and the Police and Crime Plan and how we have advanced sustainable communities. I, for my part, will never to where we are now. Whilst my Police and Crime Plan be satisfied we are as good as we can be and look provides the direction I’m always keen to stress that forward to further advances in the coming year. this must be a joint endeavour, between me and the whole of the OPCC, as we continue on this journey. “Matt’s work in Hull is essential. He is a facilitator, connector and catalyst to bring people and agencies together to work with the community. His level of knowledge of what services, activities and facilities exist is vast. His skills at networking enable him to bring together many people creating a forum to encourage partnerships and joint working. It is good that the OPCC has someone who can provide a wide ranging view of what is happening in the city and where gaps require attention Matt will seek to address such.” Gill Hughes - #thehullwewant Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 www.humberside-pcc.gov.uk 5 COMMISSIONER IN THE MEDIA COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH TO BE LAUNCHED OPCC PARTNERS WITH SEWELL RETAIL TO RAISE AWARENESS OF MODERN SLAVERY 6 Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 COMMISSIONER IN THE MEDIA OVER £300K SECURED FOR YOUTH INTERVENTION PROJECTS FORCE RATED ‘GOOD’ IN HMIC INSPECTION For a full archive of news stories visit www.humberside-pcc.gov.uk Police And Crime Commissioner For Humberside ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 www.humberside-pcc.gov.uk 7 INTRODUCING THE 2018/19 ANNUAL REPORT Rachel Cook – Chief Executive The OPCC continues to build on the outcome-based approach to managing resource and activity in ensuring that as an office we contribute towards delivery of the Police and Crime Plan. This approach engages all members of the team in considering which areas of their work they can improve or new areas to develop in working towards the outputs and aims of the plan. These are collated by the Senior Management Team (SMT) and merged to form the OPCC Delivery Plan. Each SMT lead then owns a part of the Delivery Plan and a set of activities to achieve over the course of the year. During 2018/19 opportunity arose to further refine A great proportion of the actions are rated as green, the organisational structure and hierarchy resulting which demonstrates full achievement.