D Division

Meet the D Division commander

Chief Superintendent Keith Hunter

Welcome to D Division, which covers the area of Kingston upon Hull.

I am very proud to be the Police Commander for the City of Hull having spent most of my career working within the City. The ambitions that the people of Hull have for their city are my ambitions also. My task is to create the policing environment that allows those ambitions to be realised.

In the recent past Hull has been a high crime area. This had to change if the city was to be given the opportunity to thrive.

Over the past few years years crime in the city has been cut by huge amounts. We have made substantial progress in catching up with the rest of the country in relation to crime figures. That pattern of real reductions in crime and strong detection figures continues.

We do not intend to allow Hull ever to become a high crime area again but our aims must go beyond that. I want Hull to become a city where law abiding members of the public are safe and feel safe and where criminals and anti-social elements understand they cannot act with impunity.

To achieve this we must look beyond just reducing the number of crimes committed and work towards creating a culture where everyone feels some ownership of, and responsibility for creating, a safe and prosperous city.

To do this I believe we must forge robust, honest partnerships across the city and ensure that by working in partnership we deliver greater benefits to those who live, work or visit in the city.

The aims for the City of Hull Police division are:

. To contribute fully to the developing aims and objectives of the Force recognising that as the division delivering the greatest proportion of Force performance, there is an absolute requirement to meet our corporate responsibilities;
. To contribute fully to local statutory and voluntary partnerships;
. To deliver policing services that meet the requirements of the public of Hull in such a way that confidence in local policing and the criminal justice system increases;
. To be one of the best performing divisions in the country

and through achieving the above:

to contribute towards the economic and social regeneration of the City of Hull and the recognition of Humberside Police as an ‘Outstanding British Police Force’.
To successfully deliver those aims our strongest and most productive partnership must be with the public of Hull. To forge that relationship I believe we must operate in a manner that gives the clear and unambiguous message that we are working with the law abiding public and that we want to deliver what they want from their police force.

I have set out some guiding principles that my staff will work to:

We will always side with the law abiding and not make excuses for criminal behaviour;
We will not hand over the streets to a criminal or anti-social minority;
If you are a criminal we will come after you;
We will endeavour to inconvenience, at every opportunity, those who inconvenience law abiding members of the public;
We will promote a culture where we respect each other.

The issues that the people of Hull identify as being their priorities will be our priorities. We will work with the public to deliver the city they want.

Whilst we are doing that we will be maintaining pressure to continue to reduce and detect crime and to target any criminal who believes they can continue to operate in the City.

Our Neighbourhood Teams, now embedded in each Area of the city with constables and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) for each ward, will be the front line in delivering that responsive policing within communities. They are supported by our 24 hour response policing units and our very capable CID.

In summary, the City of Hull police have delivered significantly improved performance over recent years. We are not satisfied however, and have plans and a policing style that we believe will deliver continuing improvement. That improvement will be seen and felt by those who live in or come to Hull. This will set the policing context in which the City can advance.