Regional Roads
The Regional Roads Crime Team was the first operational team created to work across the four police forces of Yorkshire and the Humber.
The team is made up of officers and staff seconded from the four police forces in the region.
Operating as a roads crime unit the success of the team is largely due to a combination of highly trained officers deploying specialist skills, sophisticated in-car automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology, and intelligence led information supplied by the Regional Intelligence Unit and Force Intelligence Bureaux.
There are three teams operating from three bases across the region (Tadcaster, Leeds and Sheffield) with a support and operations planning centre based in Wakefield.
The regional roads crime team is committed to supplying additional capability to the four police forces of the region wherever needed across the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber.
In its first 18-months of operation the highly effective roads crime unit seized £8 million of assets from criminals using the regions road network (including stolen vehicles, drugs, firearms and stolen property) and have made over 900 arrests.
The Regional Roads Crime Team was set up with a clear remit to stop offenders who cross boundaries to commit crimes and to deny criminals the use of the roads across Yorkshire and the Humber. The team can be deployed to offer support to any of the four forces, and other law enforcement agencies, whenever and wherever it is needed.
Yorkshire and the Humber is at the forefront of collaborative working, combining the strength and resources of the four forces and collectively providing better specialists capacity and capability to tackle crime for the benefit of people within the region.
For more information visit www.policingyorkshireandthehumber.co.uk.
