Force appoints a new Deputy Chief Constable

IT'S 'A PRIVILEGE TO BE IN THIS POSITION'

- By HANNAH CORKEN

FORMER Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside Police, Sarah Baker has been appointed as the force's Deputy Chief Constable (DCC).

DCC Baker joined the force in December last year from the National Police Air Service, where she was on secondment from her home force of West Yorkshire, where she started her 23-year policing career.

She is an accredited Strategic Firearms Commander, as well as a gold Gold Multi-Agency Incident Commander and has held various roles in her career from roads to neighbourhood policing and CID to becoming a District Commander.

Speaking of her new role, DCC Baker said: "I am absolutely honoured and feel incredibly privileged to have been appointed as Humberside's Deputy Chief Constable.