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Chief constable

The County Police Act 1839 gave the counties of England and Wales the opportunity to establish full-time police forces, headed by a chief constable who was appointed by the justices of the peace of the county.


Craig Mackey

In September 2007, Mackey joined Cumbria Constabulary as its Chief Constable, a post he remained in until his appointment as the Met's Deputy Commissioner in 2012.

House of Lords Commissioner for Standards

Mr Kernaghan previously had a police career culminating in a nine-year period as Chief Constable of Hampshire until 2008, followed by service as Head of Mission for the European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories.

Jim Gamble

Gamble was among six candidates shortlisted to succeed Sir Hugh Orde as Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable.

John Inch

Sir John Ritchie Inch CVO CBE QPM (14 May 1911 – 22 November 1993) was a police officer who was successively Chief Constable of three Scottish police forces.

Mike Culverhouse

Mike Culverhouse was Chief Constable of the Isle of Man Constabulary from 1999 until his retirement on 31 December 2007.

William Nimmo Smith, Lord Nimmo Smith

Concerns had been raised by Linlithgow MP Tam Dalyell with Lothian and Borders Chief Constable Sir William Sutherland.


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1842 Pottery Riots

By the end of 1842 the County Police Force had been established and the first Chief Constable appointed.

Alan Hardwick

This view was challenged by Paul West, a former Chief Constable now advising the government on policing issues in his role as director of Policing For All.

Baggott

Matt Baggott (born 1959), Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland

Bermuda Police Service

Three of the constables were based in Hamilton, with Clarke, three in St. George's, with Chief Constable H. Dunkley, and two in Somerset, and there were still twenty-one part-time Parish constables.

Colin Cramphorn

In 1998 he moved to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and he was briefly Acting Chief Constable of the RUC's successor, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, prior to the appointment of Sir Hugh Orde in May 2002.

Craig Mackey

Mackey previously held senior roles as Chief Constable, Cumbria Constabulary, in addition to chief officer posts in Wiltshire Constabulary, Gloucestershire Constabulary and a specialist staff officer role in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).

Douglas George Ross

He then transferred to Edinburgh City Police, of which his father was then Chief Constable, in 1922 and rose through the ranks to Superintendent.

God's Cop

James Anderton, a former Chief Constable of Greater Manchester sometimes referred to as God's Cop

Headquarters Mobile Support Unit

The unit had its prototype in the Bessbrook Support Unit (BSU) set up in 1977 as part of the scaling-up of the RUC's numbers and capabilities under Chief Constable Kenneth Newman to "Ulsterise" as far as possible the maintenance of security.

Henry Chapman

H. E. Chapman (Harry Ernest Chapman, c. 1871–1944), Chief Constable of Kent, 1921–1940

Liverpool Daily Post

Whitty, a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed.

Manchester Slingback

The novel contrasts the underground status of the village during the 1980s, when the city's Chief Constable was James Anderton, with its flourishing as a tourist attraction in the 1990s.

Michael James Whitty

Whitty was a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, who had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed.

Michael Todd

Michael J. Todd (1957–2008), senior British police officer, formerly Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police

Neil Kinrade

In 1999, Mike Culverhouse was appointed Chief Constable following the retirement of Robin Oake QPM.

Nicholas Albery

In 1974, in the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the Windsor Free Festival, Albery, playwright Heathcote Williams and his partner Diana Senior successfully sued David Holdsworth, the Thames Valley Chief Constable, for creating a riotous situation in which the police attacked the plaintiffs.

North Wales Police

Many have attributed this phenomenon to its former Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom, who accepts he is obsessed with speeding motorists.

Phil Scraton

It also included a new section revealing for the first time the events surrounding the appointment of Norman Bettison as Chief Constable of Merseyside and the significant role that he had played yet described as "peripheral" in the aftermath of the disaster.

Stanhope Forbes

The piece is a portrait of the then Chief Constable of Penzance Borough Police, Robert Cyril Morton Jenkins

Thomas Elwyn

After serving for five months as the Chief Constable of Yale, Governor James Douglas made him Assistant Gold Commissioner of Lillooet.

Wearside Jack

Postmarked from Sunderland, two were addressed to George Oldfield, the Assistant Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police who was heading the Ripper inquiry, and one to the Daily Mirror.

White v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police

White v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police was a 1998 case in English tort law in which police officers who were present in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster sued for post traumatic stress disorder.