The first chief police officer was Alexander McManus (1836–1866) and the last (1962 until amalgamation) Robert Walton.[3] There is a memorial within Clough Road Police Station to the officers from the force who died during the First World War.[4]
The force's Central Police Station has moved between a number of locations. The first station was located on Whitefriargate, purchased in 1852 from the Hull Incorporation of the Poor, and was used until a purpose-built station was opened on Alfred Gelder Street in 1902. Hull's final Central Police Station opened adjacent to Queen's Gardens in 1957,[1] later becoming the base of Hull's Humberside Police operations until its closure for redevelopment in 2013.[5][6]