The PCC for the Humberside Police area is Jonathan Evison, re-elected in 2024 for a four-year term. The PCC is supported by a non-political
team of permanent staff, known as the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC), which implement the PCC’s priorities and support
him to carry out his duties. He has also appointed a Deputy PCC to support him with his role.
How does the PCC hold the police to account? The PCC holds the policing budget, consisting of funding from central Government and local council tax payers. He appoints the Chief Constable to run the area's police force. He issues the budget to the Chief Constable and holds him to account for how the force perform, on your behalf, through a series of assurance and performance measures. The PCC issues a Police and Crime Plan which runs for his term of office. The plan sets the strategic police and crime objectives for the area.
What else does the PCC do? In addition to commissioning the police service for the area, the PCC commissions a range of other services to help cut crime, improve community safety and provide support for victims of crime. The PCC also works to bring together partner organisations in community safety and criminal justice to make sure local priorities are joined up.
The main statutory responsibilities of the PCC are to:
- Secure an efficient and effective police force for their area.
- Appoint the Chief Constable, hold them to account for running the force, and if necessary dismiss them.
- Set the police and crime objectives for their area through a Police and Crime Plan.
- Set the force budget and determine the council tax precept.
- Obtain the views of local people and victims of crime before the Police and Crime Plan is issued and before the precept is set.
- Bring together community safety and criminal justice partners, to make sure local priorities are joined up.
- Commission services to help cut crime, improve community safety and provide support for victims of crime.
- Assist specified authorities with preventing serious violence and collaborate with them on commissioning services.
- Deal with complaints against the Chief Constable as the Appropriate Authority.
- Act as an impartial Review Body in relation to formally recorded complaints about Humberside Police, following handling by the Appropriate Authority.
- Contribute to the national and international policing capabilities set out by the Home Secretary.
Publish, in a prominent place, additional information under a Specified Information Order, including force performance against any future national policing measures, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services’ performance reports, and complaints handling.
Find out more at the Humberside PCC's website.
