Philip Wilkinson (British Army officer)

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Colonel Philip Roy Wilkinson OBE (born October 1948) [1] is a retired British Army officer who has served as the Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner since August 2021. He was re-elected in May 2024.

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Wilkinson was educated at Sandhurst, from where on 25 July 1969 he was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [2] He was a Major in that regiment by 1982 [3] and later served in the Commando and Parachute Brigades and the Special Forces. He retired from the British Army in 1998 [4] and was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) the same year. [5]

Wilkinson continued to work in security roles, and by 2020 was working in Somalia for the Minister for Internal Security. This was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and he returned to Wiltshire and began to write a book of memoirs, Sharpening the Weapons of Peace, [6] while becoming a senior research fellow at King's College London. [7]

Wilkinson stood successfully for the Conservative Party as Wiltshire's police and crime commissioner at the by-election on 19 August 2021, [8] after the May 2021 election had failed to elect a qualified candidate. [9] He was re-elected for a further term of four years in May 2024. [10]

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  1. ↑ "Philip Roy Wilkinson", company-information.service.gov.uk, accessed 8 May 2025
  2. ↑ "No. 44923". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 22 August 1969. p. 8768.
  3. 1 2 "No. 49196". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 13 December 1982. p. 16352.
  4. ↑ "Philip Wilkinson holds Wiltshire PCC position", BBC News, 4 May 2024
  5. 1 2 "No. 55155". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 15 June 1998. p. 6.
  6. ↑ "Philip Wilkinson: My unexpected journey to becoming the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon", Conservative Home , 9 September 2021
  7. ↑ Matthew McLaughlin, "Conservative PCC candidate on the election ahead in Wiltshire", Gazette and Herald (Wiltshire), 7 July 2021, accessed 8 May 2024
  8. ↑ Terence Herbert, Certificate of result - second count, Police and Crime Commissioner election, 19 August 2021, Wiltshire Council, 20 August 2021, accessed 8 May 2024
  9. ↑ Benjamin Paessler, "Wiltshire PCC election re-run: Updates as votes are counted" Salisbury Journal , 20 August 2021, accessed 8 May 2024
  10. ↑ Statement of Persons Nominated, April 2024; Wiltshire PCC election result, May 2024, accessed 9 May 2024

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