The Chief Constable of Humberside Police has celebrated the publication of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) quarterly crime figures, which for the seventh consecutive time show a reduction in crime across the force’s area. Overall crime in the force area has fallen at a greater rate than that of the national figure.
The newly released figures assess the period between September 2024 and September 2025, with comparisons being made to September 2023 to September 2024. Overall crime in the Humber area has fallen by 3.7% compared to the previous reporting period, which is impressively, over twice the rate at which crime has fallen nationally, 1.6%.
In an interview with the LDRS, the force’s Chief Constable, Chris Todd, expressed his delight with the figures, saying everyone in the force should be “really proud.”
Responding to a suggestion that as the figures are based off reported crimes, a reduction could in theory mean crime is ongoing, but incidents are not being reported to the police, he said: “No, I definitely see this as a positive.
“We’ve had a lot of inspection over recent years around crime recording which we’ve been reported on favourably by His Majesty’s Inspectorate so we’re really confident in our crime recording. This is definitely an indication that crime is being driven down across the Humber Region and everyone in Humberside Police should be really proud of that.”
Despite the overall crime numbers having dropped, and figures in specific areas such as burglary, violence, and stalking & harassment having reduced, the force has seen a significant rise in the number of drug offences. The Chief Constable suggested a rise in drug offences is “directly related” to the force’s proactive measures.
He added that drug offences are recorded when drugs found through stop and search and other activities. “I think that is an indication of the proactivity that is apart of our crime reduction strategy,” he said.
Drug related crime figures have risen nationally, but not at the rates seen across Humberside. Whilst nationally such crimes have increased by 21%, drug offences in Humberside increased by 45%.
When quizzed on why the figure is so much higher in the region, the Chief Constable said: “The drugs market is ever fluctuating and at the moment there is a lot of activity against drug trafficking, nationally and internationally. Some of that will be around proactive street level policing, quite a lot of it though, is around organised crime and tackling those organised crime groups.”
By: Andrew Spence, LDRS
