Peter Neyroud, Esq, CBE, QPM

Career: Police Constable rising to Detective Supt then dir of intelligence Hampshire Constabulary 1980-97; West Mercia Constabulary: Asst Chief Constable (Support) 1998-2000, Asst Chief Constable (Territorial Policing) 2000, Dep Chief Constable 2000-02; Chief Constable Thames Valley Police 2002-05, chief exec Nat Policing Improvement Agency 2006-; visiting fell Nuffield Coll Oxford 2007-, Sir Leon Radzinowicz visiting fell in criminology Univ of Cambridge 2008; ACPO: memb 1998, portfolio holder Police Use of Firearms 2000-02, lead on Criminal Justice 2000-04, vice-pres 2004-06, former vice-chm Human Rights Ctee; memb: Cncl Justice 1997-2006, Sentencing Guideline Cncl 2004-10; ind reviewer Parole Bd 2006-; Home Office Police Research Award for Multi-Agency Approaches to Racial Harassment 1990, Gary P Hayes Award US Police Executive Research Forum 2004; FRSA 2000

Books and Publications: Policing, Ethics and Human Rights (2001), Public Participation in Policing (2001), Police Ethics for the 21st Century (in The Handbook of Policing, 2003), Dictionary of Policing (2008)