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Party Portrait Name Police area Year elected Year left Reason Independent: Sue Mountstevens: Avon and Somerset: 2012: 2021: Retired Independent: Ann Barnes
[15] [16] Many chief constables saw the role of women as 'Clerks and Chauffeurs' and thought women could possibly be employed as special constables. [17] The chief constable of Wolverhampton wrote an article in Police Review and Parade Ground Gossip in which he listed a range of duties women could undertake within the Force. [18]
B. Ranulph Bacon; Colin Bailey (police officer) Simon Bailey (police officer) Stanley Bailey; E. C. Stuart Baker; Richard Barratt; Frederick George Beale
In 2021, Poultney was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable and she was appointed Chief Constable in June 2021, [2] suceeding Stephen Watson (who went onto to lead Greater Manchester Police). Poultney is the first woman to hold the position. [3]
She joined Durham Constabulary in 2016, and was appointed as its first female Chief Constable in 2019. During her tenure as Chief Constable of Durham, the force introduced a new approach to dealing with rape suspects, and during the COVID-19 pandemic investigated Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer for a potential breach of COVID-19 regulations.
In 2014, a group of chief officers and PCCs began working together to implement Parker's recommendations and develop a national body. Chief officers voted in support of the group's proposals in July 2014. Chief Constable Sara Thornton was appointed to chair the NPCC on 2 December 2014. ACPO was closed down on 31 March 2015. [3]
She retired at the end of December 2009 as Britain's longest-serving female chief constable [3] and was succeeded by Peter Vaughan. In 2011 she was appointed High Sheriff of Mid Glamorgan . Between 2015 and 2021, Wilding was the Chancellor of Cardiff Metropolitan University , prior to which she served as the Chair of the University's Board of ...
Issues have included conflict between PCCs and chief constables, questions over PCC expenses, the cost of elections and low voter turnout (in some cases, below 15%). [47] The Plain English Campaign described the commissioners in 2015 as "serial offenders" in "mangling of the English language" and the use of "jargon". [ 48 ]