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Every neighbourhood has a team of officers dedicated to keeping you safe and supporting your community. These teams include Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) Police Constables, Sergeants and Inspectors, who all work together to help resolve local concerns and build relationships with residents, key statutory partners and local organisations to ensure local issues are targeted by the appropriate agency.

What do Neighbourhood Policing Teams do?

These teams specialise in solving community problems at a local level by working in collaboration with other agencies, and understanding the root cause of those problems, they are not the officers you would typically see responding to a 999 emergency, they run their own investigations, conduct warrants to target offenders causing harm and engage with the community, gathering invaluable intelligence to further investigations, offering advice and reducing crime and anti social behaviour through pro-active prevention and targeted activity .

Neighbourhood officers are assigned to specific areas so they can really get to know the community they serve, they build their local knowledge and gain an understanding of what matters most to residents through proactive foot patrol, surgeries, public meetings, events and many other engagement activities. Officers often issue updates directly to the local community through My Community Alert, this programme allows local residents to sign up with an email address or phone number to keep up to date with the ongoing activities of their local police teams, and receive valuable crime prevention updates.

Teams also utilise a system called Vision On where known wanted individuals’ images are circulated internally to ensure that should they see wanted people on their beat, they are identified correctly and apprehended. Their knowledge of the local area often proves vital to identifying suspects in investigations, helping bring offenders to justice across many different departments within the force.

How is Humberside split up?

Each Neighbourhood station is assigned a section of their force area which is subsequently divided again into ‘wards’. Wards are assigned to specific teams of officers, these teams complete too many tasks to list however a lot of their duties involve engaging with residents through multiple means, understanding their concerns and then solving those problems through partnership work with other organisations, and police led targeted activity to bring offenders to justice.

To help illustrate how these areas are divided up here are some examples, Neighbourhood officers from:

• Ferry Road in Scunthorpe cover five wards: Scunthorpe Town, Crosby & Park, Brumby. Frodingham, Kingsway & Lincoln Gardens.
• Bridlington cover three wards with the town split into North, South and Central.
• Pickering Road in Hull cover five wards: Newington and Gipsyville, Derringham, Bricknell, Boothferry, Avenues and Pickering

All the information regarding which area you live in and who your local neighbourhood officers are can be found online here, on the site you can search using your postcode, email your local station or find information on the latest crime statistics in your community.

Keep an eye on the website, and social media accounts for more on what they’re getting up to, and of course sign up to My Community Alert to find out what’s happening on your street

To find out who covers your area alongside the ward that you live in click here!