Cleveland Police is a territorial police force in England responsible for the policing the boroughs of Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire and Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham within North East England. The force is overseen by the Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner. Since 2022,the chief constable has been Mark Webster.
Devon and Cornwall Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall in South West England. The force serves approximately 1.8 million people over an area of 3,967 square miles (10,270 km2).
Surrey Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Surrey in South East England.
Humberside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the East Riding of Yorkshire,including Kingston upon Hull,and northern parts of Lincolnshire,including Grimsby and Scunthorpe.
South Yorkshire Police (SYP) is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England. The force is led by Chief Constable Lauren Poultney. Oversight is conducted by Mayor Oliver Coppard.
Northamptonshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England,in the United Kingdom.
Sir Stephen House is a Scottish police officer who served as Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 2022. After beginning his career at Sussex Police in 1981,House held positions in Northamptonshire Police and West Yorkshire Police,then became Assistant Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police in 1998. In 2001,he joined the Metropolitan Police as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner,remaining there until 2007,when he was appointed Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police.
"Plebgate" was a British political scandal which started in September 2012. The trigger was an altercation between Conservative MP and Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and police officers on duty outside Downing Street. Leaked police logs,later apparently backed up by eyewitness evidence,suggested that Mitchell had sworn at police officers and called them "plebs" when they refused to open the main gate for him as he attempted to leave with his bicycle,telling him to walk through the adjacent pedestrian gate instead. Mitchell apologised,stating that he had used bad language but denied using the words claimed and in particular calling police officers "plebs". However,finding his position untenable amid intense media scrutiny,he resigned from the post of Chief Whip a month later.
Susan Robertson,is a British independent politician. From November 2012 to May 2021,she served as the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner. She is the first person to hold the post and was first elected on 15 November 2012,having stood as an independent candidate.
Simon Byrne,is an English former senior police officer. He served as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from July 2019 until he resigned in September 2023. He was the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police from 2009 to 2011 and the Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing in the Metropolitan Police Service from 2011 to 2014. He then served as Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary from 2014 to 2017.
Nicholas "Nick" Gargan is a former Chief Constable in England,who now runs his own consultancy company,Nick Gargan Consulting.
Bianca Williams is a British athlete. She won the silver medal in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Jordan Lee Begley,also known as Jordon Begley,a 23-year-old English man,died of cardiac arrest on 10 July 2013. An inquest in 2015 found that Begley's death had been partly due to the actions of Greater Manchester Police officers who shot him with a Taser while they restrained and handcuffed him around two hours prior to his death.
Ian Hopkins is a former senior British police officer. From October 2015 to December 2020,he was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police.
Michael Veale was the Chief Constable of Cleveland Police in northeast England until his resignation in January 2019. From 2015 until 2018 he was Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police,the force responsible for policing Wiltshire and Swindon in the southwest of England. He came to national prominence in 2017 when Wiltshire Police presented the findings of its investigation into alleged sexual abuse by former prime minister Edward Heath.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is a non-departmental public body in England and Wales which,since 8 January 2018,is responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales. Most allegations of police misconduct are investigated by police forces' own professional standards departments. However the IOPC does conduct independent investigations of serious allegations of misconduct or criminal offences by police officers and other law enforcement officers. 'Mandatory' referrals are usually made to the IOPC should a person die or sustain serious injuries following police contact. Additionally,a force's professional standards department may also make a 'voluntary' referral –in which a force will ask the IOPC to consider if they wish to investigate independently,supervise a force professional standards investigation,or decline and refer the investigation back to the force to investigate without any IOPC input. The office received over 4300 referrals from police forces and completed about 700 investigations in the 2019/20 year.
Suzette Louise Davenport is a retired British police officer who is the former chief constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary. She was appointed in 2013,becoming the first woman to serve in the role;prior to this,she had held various other policing roles. She retired in 2017,having served thirty years as a police officer.
Vítor Ricardo dos Santos Soares,known as Ricardo dos Santos,is a Portuguese sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 Ibero-American Championships. He reached the 400m final at the 2018 European Championships,setting a Portuguese national record of 45.14 in the semifinals.
Jermaine Baker was shot dead by a Metropolitan Police officer in Wood Green,London on 11 December 2015. Baker,who was unarmed,was shot during a police operation to prevent a suspected plot to free two prisoners being transported to Wood Green Crown Court. Baker's death led to an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission,which was continued by its successor body the Independent Office for Police Conduct,and a criminal investigation which did not result in criminal charges being brought against the officer who shot Baker. A public inquiry into Baker's death launched in June 2021 and reported in July 2022,finding that the police operation in which Baker was killed had involved a series of failings,but that Baker's killing was nonetheless lawful.
To Catch a Copper is a 2024 British documentary series about investigations into officer misconduct within the Avon and Somerset Police. The series has three episodes,which are themed around mental health,race,and sex crimes. Concerns include use of force and racial profiling. In one case,a constable is fired after publishing revenge porn;in another,an officer is acquitted after having sex on duty with an intoxicated woman.
