Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley region,covering the counties of Berkshire,Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in South East England. It is the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales,covering 2,218 square miles (5,740 km2) and a population of 2.42 million people.
Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde,is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),representing the 44 police forces of England,Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009,he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Ian Warwick Blair,Baron Blair of Boughton,is a British retired policeman who held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service.
The Association of Chief Police Officers of England,Wales and Northern Ireland (ACPO) was a not-for-profit private limited company that for many years led the development of policing practices in England,Wales,and Northern Ireland. Established in 1948,ACPO provided a forum for chief police officers to share ideas and coordinate their strategic operational responses,and advised government in matters such as terrorist attacks and civil emergencies. ACPO coordinated national police operations,major investigations,cross-border policing,and joint law enforcement. ACPO designated Senior Investigative Officers for major investigations and appointed officers to head ACPO units specialising in various areas of policing and crime reduction.
Dame Cressida Rose Dick is a former British police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2017 to 2022. She is both the first female and first openly lesbian officer to lead London's Metropolitan Police Service.
Peter Michael Imbert,Baron Imbert,was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1987 to 1993,and prior to that appointment Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 1979 to 1985.
Maria Wallis QPM was the Chief Constable of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary in the United Kingdom from 2002 until 26 July 2006. A native of County Fermanagh,she commanded the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary which included responsibility for 3,500 police officers,more than 2,000 civilian staff and 362 police community support officers. Chief Constable Wallis commanded the largest geographical police area in England,extending 180 miles from the Dorset and Somerset borders in the east to the Isles of Scilly in the west.
Julie Spence,is a retired British police officer and activist. She served as the Chief Constable for Cambridgeshire Constabulary from 10 December 2005 to 5 September 2010,and made headline news over demanding fairer funding due to the rise in migration and immigration in Cambridgeshire.
Meredydd John Hughes is a retired British police officer. He served as Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police from 1 September 2004 to 2011.
Sir Peter Martin Fahy is a retired senior British police officer. He was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP),the United Kingdom's third largest police force. He retired from the police force on 23 October 2015 after serving for 34 years.
Sir Kenneth Lloyd Jones is a British former police officer. He was a Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia,former President of Association of Chief Police Officers for England,Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom and Senior Investigator of Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. Sir Ken Jones is a former President of Association of Chief Police Officers and presently defence &security advisor at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2000 and was knighted for services to policing in 2009.
James Gamble,is a British former police officer and head of Belfast region for the now disbanded RUC Special Branch.
Patricia Ferguson Gallan QPM is a British former police officer who served as Assistant Commissioner Specialist Crime and Operations of the Metropolitan Police in London. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Commissioner from 2012 to 2015,Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police from February 2006 to 2012,and also served as temporary Deputy Chief Constable of the force from October 2009 to February 2010. She was the most senior female ethnic minority police officer in British history. She retired from the police service in August 2018.
Stephen Otter is a former chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police,a post he held from joining the force in January 2007 until his departure in March 2012. He was succeeded by Shaun Sawyer.
Dame Lynne Gillian Owens,is a senior law enforcement officer in the United Kingdom. She was made interim Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service in September 2022 before being confirmed as that role's permanent holder in February 2023,the first-ever such female holder.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) is a national coordination body for law enforcement in the United Kingdom and the representative body for senior police officers in the United Kingdom. Established on 1 April 2015,it replaced the former Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),following the Parker Review of the operations of ACPO.
Sir David Thompson is the former chief constable of West Midlands Police,England's second-largest and the United Kingdom's third-largest police force. He retired from the post on 5 December 2022,succeeded by Craig Guildford.
Helen Mary King is a British academic administrator and retired police officer. Since April 2017,she has been Principal of St Anne's College,Oxford. Her previous career was as a police officer,serving with the Cheshire Constabulary,the Merseyside Police,and the Metropolitan Police Service. She retired from the police in 2017,having reached the rank of Assistant Commissioner.
Martin James Hewitt is a senior British police officer,who has served as Chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council from May 2019 to March 2023.
Shaun Sawyer QPM was the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police until 2022,having been appointed in February 2013 to succeed Stephen Otter.
