Early Police Career
Leaving the Merchant Navy, he joined Sussex Police in 1981, and had been promoted to Superintendent by 1992. As a Superintendent and Chief Superintendent he was Head of Personnel and later Divisional Commander of a large Operational Command Unit, which included Crawley. In 1996, he was appointed Force Crime Manager for Sussex, which made him responsible for force-level intelligence, crime and drugs operations, scientific support and major crime investigations. He took the Strategic Command Course at the Police Staff College, Bramshill in 1999. He also received a BA (Hons) degree in Public Sector Police Studies from the University of Portsmouth and a Diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied at Fitzwilliam College.
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