Response Strategy Refresh

How You Can Get Involved

If you’d like to share any evidence with us, or have any questions, please email us at: humbervpp@humberside.police.uk

Keep reading for more information, including our definition of serious violence and the timeline for consultation and reviews.

About the Response Strategy

In 2023, we published our original Response Strategy. It was developed following discussions with partners, communities and young people. The document outlines our region’s shared objectives and multi-year actions for 2023 – 2027, along with details of how we report on progress, and review and evaluate the strategy.

It set out: 

• What we knew so far about serious violence in the Humber area
• What we had decided to focus on and why
• How we would work through a public health approach
• The strategic aims, outcomes and objectives that have shaped our response to date

With the new strategy, we’re aiming to continue and strengthen joint action to prevent and reduce serious violence across the Humber region. We want to make sure we identify the right priorities, and to hear ideas about how we can work with organisations and communities to deliver them.

What Do We Mean by Serious Violence?

We adopted the World Health Organisation’s definition of violence as: 

“The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.” 

In 2022/23 we carried out our first Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA), which drew on a range of data sources to analyse the extent and nature of violence in the Humber area.

Based on the SNA and discussions across our partnership, we defined serious violence in the Humber area as violence which consists of the following headline crime types:

• Homicide
• Violence against the person (public space)
• Robbery
• Possession of a weapon
• Domestic abuse
• Sexual offences
• Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
• Child exploitation and county lines
• Modern slavery
• Organised crime groups

 Along with the crime types listed above, we’re also interested in evidence covering unmet needs and identified risk factors, such as ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), for the new Response Strategy.

Timeline

The below table shows the timeline for consultation and reviews:

More Information

Explore the links below for more information on serious violence in the Humber region – and how we’re addressing it.