Essex Police Chief Constable, Ben-Julian Harrington, or BJ, grew up in North London and attended St. Ignatius College in Enfield. He began his policing career with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 1990. He served communities in and around Chingford and Walthamstow. BJ brought with him experience not only from his work with HM Customs and Excise, but his skills as a reserve soldier in the Parachute Regiment too.<\/p>\n\n
Over the next 27 years, BJ worked in a variety of policing roles across London. He gained real-life policing experience needed to understand and lead a police service.<\/p>\n\n
After learning the ropes as a response police officer, BJ joined the Metropolitan Police Services\u2019 specialist public order team, the Territorial Support Group (TSG). He became a Sergeant in 1996 and continued his promotion through the ranks. By October 2014, BJ had become Area Commander for Northwest London. He had gained operational policing experience in a variety of roles<\/p>\n\n
From the start, BJ always had an interest in operational policing. In particular, public order policing. His passion for keeping people safe showed throughout his time with the MPS. This was demonstrated through the operational roles he undertook as he moved up through the policing ranks.<\/p>\n\n
Roles included overseeing the policing of football crowds and the Notting Hill Carnival. Large scale protests, and the London 2012 Olympics. Not to mention the implementations of Safer Neighbourhood Teams. All this experience led him to become Commander for Public Order in London.<\/p>\n\n
BJ also worked as one of the National Counter Terrorism Commanders.<\/p>\n\n
In 2017, BJ was seconded to the role of Deputy Chief Constable for Essex Police. He took over as the Chief Constable in October 2018.<\/p>\n\n
Utilising his wealth of policing experience, BJ has worked on building community confidence in Essex. Along with his Chief Officer team, he continues to shape a workforce representative of our diverse communities. A workforce that has the ability to meet what our communities need.<\/p>\n\n
This has included making sure his officers, staff and volunteers have the equipment they need for 21st Century Policing,. This involved the modernisation of the force's IT capabilities.<\/p>\n\n
BJ also continues to champion diversity, equality, and inclusion throughout the force. He is a firm ally for LGBTQ+ communities. He continues to lead on, and enhance, the force\u2019s Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy. The widely acclaimed \u2018We Value Difference\u2019 recruitment campaign gained plaudits from the College of Policing.<\/p>\n\n
During his time as Essex Police Chief Constable, BJ has built a strong and capable command team. This has ensured the force has effectively dealt with significant and challenging events. This has included the unprecedented impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. The fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess by a terrorist. And the tragic death of 39 migrants found in a container lorry once it had reached Essex. This case resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of seven people for a total of more than 92 years.<\/p>\n\n
Alongside his Chief Constable responsibilities, BJ is also the chair of the NPCC Operations Coordination Committee (NOCC). This committee has 13 wide-ranging national portfolios. It includes armed policing, public order and specialist areas such as aviation, maritime and roads policing. As part of this national responsibility, BJ also leads on the Joint Emergency Interoperability Programme (JESIP). This involves setting out how all emergency services work together to save lives and reduce harm.<\/p>\n\n
He is also the president of the Essex Police Choir, Band and Sports Association.<\/p>\n\n
BJ has a postgraduate diploma in Police Leadership from Leicester University. He is also a graduate of the Cabinet Office Leaders UK senior public service leadership programme.<\/p>\n\n
The Essex Police Chief was awarded the Queen's Policing Medal (QPM) for Distinguished Service, as part of Queen Elizabeth's New Year's Honours in 2022. <\/p>\n\n
BJ is married to a former police officer, has two teenage daughters and an annoying Spaniel.<\/p>","contact_details":{}}] [{"name":"Rod Hansen","rank":"Chief Constable","bio":"
Rod Hansen joined Gloucestershire Constabulary as Deputy Chief Constable in May 2013 and in May 2017 took over as Chief Constable.<\/p>\n\n
Rod started his career at Avon and Somerset Constabulary in September 1988 in the market town of Chipping Sodbury. During his time with the force he covered a variety of roles from patrol inspector in central Bristol to District Commander for Bath and North East Somerset. Other postings also led to Rod working on the force surveillance team and reviewing the child protection team portfolio.<\/p>\n\n
Rod has been a hostage negotiator since 1998 and for a number of years was the South West Regional Co-ordinator for negotiating. He was course director for the regional negotiators course and in October 2003 trained negotiators within the Greek police service in preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.<\/p>\n\n
Rod is also the Chief Police Advisor to the military Joint Task Force Headquarters (JTFHQ) and part of a multi-agency team of non-military advisors working closely alongside colleagues from the Stabilisation Unit, Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a variety of volunteer and charitable groups such as the International Red Cross.<\/p>\n\n
His deployments to date include; Somalia to help devise the next phase of the United Nations (AMISOM) plan to bring security to the wider Horn of Africa, the Masai Mara, Kenya, working with Kenyan and Ugandan Rapid Deployment Forces on flood relief, food assistance programmes, malaria and refugee reduction. Rod also assisted in the fast time provision of a UK police capability to assist the British military in extracting British nationals from Libya during the recent fall of the regime.<\/p>\n\n
Rod is also the current police service lead for mounted policing and has been heavily involved for many years in three charities.<\/p>","contact_details":{}},{"name":"Jon Stratford","rank":"Deputy Chief Constable","bio":"
Jon joined Gloucestershire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable for Tri-force Specialist Operations and Major Crime investigation and on 1 May 2017 he was appointed to the role of temporary Deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary for twelve months.<\/p>\n\n
Prior to this he served for two years as an ACC with South Wales Police leading their Specialist Operations, Specialist Crime, Professional Standards, Criminal Justice and Communications departments.<\/p>\n\n
A former Army Officer and graduate of Leicester Polytechnic, Jon began his policing career in South Bristol with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1992. He went on to serve in a variety of operational roles in Bath, Bristol and rural Somerset before becoming the Policing Commander for Bristol.<\/p>\n\n
Jon is a qualified firearms and public order commander with extensive operational experience that includes commanding the police response to many Glastonbury Festivals, St Paul\u2019s Carnival\u2019s and numerous other major events as well as critical incidents such as the murder of Joanna Yates in 2010, the two separate Bristol disorders in 2011 and other large scale protest.<\/p>\n\n
Nationally, Jon is the NPCC chief officer lead for Integrated Offender Management.<\/p>\n\n
Jon is a family man with interests that include surfing, cycling and anything else that gets him outdoors with his three sons. He is also the chair of governors of his local primary school.<\/p>","contact_details":{}},{"name":"Julian Moss","rank":"Assistant Chief Constable (Operations)","bio":"
Julian Moss joined Gloucestershire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable Operations in May 2017.<\/p>\n\n
Julian joined Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1992 after graduating from Bristol University having studied Physics. He has considerable experience in neighbourhood policing, having been a beat manager in Bristol as a constable, neighbourhood inspector for Bath, superintendent with responsibility for neighbourhood policing and partnerships in Bristol before going on to become local policing commander for North Somerset. He later had responsibility for local policing as temporary Assistant Chief Constable for Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n\n
Other notable roles include temporary Assistant Chief Constable for public protection and force development at Wiltshire Police and head of CID at Avon and Somerset. In this role he oversaw homicide and serious and organised crime investigations as well as public protection, intelligence, forensics and crime standards. In 2015 Julian was the Gold Commander for the response to the murder of Becky Watts in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n
He has lived in the Stroud district for 14 years and is married with three children. He enjoys running in the local Cotswold countryside.<\/p>","contact_details":{}}] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [{"name":"Rob Nixon","rank":"Chief Constable","bio":"
Rob has served with Leicestershire Police for 25 years, beginning his policing career here in 1993.<\/p>\n\n
In 2008 he was appointed as the head of the force\u2019s Community Safety Bureau, which was responsible for the implementation of neighbourhood policing, tackling anti-social behaviour and offender management.<\/p>\n\n
His next role, from 2009 to 2014, was as Chief Superintendent for the Leicester City Basic Command Unit. He led local policing for the area and worked with communities during two large scale English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism demonstrations. He was instrumental in the force\u2019s response to disorder during August 2012.<\/p>\n\n
Throughout 2014 and 2015 he was head of business change and developed Blueprint2020 \u2013 a programme designed to decide how to make significant savings and take the force into a new era of policing.<\/p>\n\n
His next step was to become Temporary Assistant Chief Constable, working across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire on collaborative projects such as the regional East midlands Operational Support Service and East Midlands Criminal Justice Service.<\/p>\n\n
He stayed in this role until April 2017, when he was appointed as the force\u2019s Assistant Chief Constable. He has responsibility for local policing, crime and intelligence and public protection.<\/p>\n\n
Outside of policing, Rob lives in Leicestershire with his family. He is a keen pilot, skier and has developed his construction skills while renovating a derelict property.<\/p>","contact_details":{}},{"name":"Julia Debenham","rank":"Assistant Chief Constable","bio":"
Julia Debenham joined Leicestershire Police in 1993 and has remained with the force ever since. Throughout her service, Julia has held a variety of roles throughout both ranks \u2013 both uniformed and non uniformed. More recently, Julia worked in collaborative roles within the East Midlands region where she held Chief officer responsibility for East Midlands Criminal Justice Service and East Midlands Specialist Operations Service.<\/p>\n\n
Julia said \"I feel immensely proud to be an Assistant Chief Constable in Leicestershire Police. I work with brilliant and dedicated people who achieve so much for the public. Often their efforts are not widely visible but their impact on people, often at a time of crisis, is hugely positive. It is a real privilege to live and work in our diverse communities in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. When I joined the police, I was seeking an interesting and challenging role that I could maintain as a career and that made a positive impact in our communities. 26 years on .. every day is different, every day is challenging and I continue to enjoy (almost) every minute\u2026 and I hope to make a positive difference\"<\/p>\n\n
Julia is married and is the mother of two young children.<\/p>","contact_details":{}},{"name":"David Sandall","rank":"Assistant Chief Constable","bio":"
David Sandall has served with Leicestershire Police since 1999, commencing his policing career from the old Asfordby Street and Charles Street Police stations in Leicester, following on from his dad and grandad in serving in Leicestershire Police as part of over 80 years family service.<\/p>\n\n
David continued to work across Leicester and surrounding area as a Sergeant. He led teams as a Shift, Neighbourhood and Custody Sergeant, before moving into the investigative departments, as a Detective Sergeant and being promoted as a Leicester City Detective Inspector.<\/p>\n\n
As a Detective Inspector David also led the Force Special Operations Unit, leading on covert policing and Serious and Organised Crime before being seconded to the United Kingdom Borders Agency, managing an East Midlands Regional Team tackling foreign national offending. On promotion to Chief Inspector in 2009 David worked as the crime lead across the County of Leicestershire and Rutland as part of the County North and South areas, before supporting the amalgamation into the Counties Basic Command Unit.<\/p>\n\n
From 2012 to 2015 David took the lead for Safeguarding Investigations, significantly developing the response to vulnerable people and the investigation of Serious Crime. He was instrumental in the introduction of the co-located multi-agency Safeguarding, Child Abuse and Child Sexual Exploitation teams and the development of the investigative digital hub.<\/p>\n\n
In 2015 David was promoted to Chief Superintendent as the Head of Crime and Intelligence. David has been engaged in broad variety of high profile serious and critical incidents and crimes that have sadly occurred in Leicestershire. David recently successfully completed a Master\u2019s degree at Cambridge University, he is an accredited PIP4 and PIP3 Senior Investigating Officer, a Senior Identification Manager and is also an active Strategic and experienced Tactical Firearms Commander.<\/p>\n\n
From January 2019 David is undertaking the Temporary position as the Protective Services, Assistant Chief Constable for Leicestershire Police. This portfolio has the lead for the East Midlands Regional Criminal Justice Service, East Midlands Operations Department and he leads in Leicestershire for Serious and Organised Crime, Offender Management, Safeguarding Investigations and as the senior LGBT lead.<\/p>\n\n
Outside of work David lives in Leicestershire with his family. He enjoys sport and being outside with his active children. David manages a local children\u2019s football team and is also a parent representative for a local scout group.<\/p>","contact_details":{}}] [{"name":"Chris Haward","rank":"Chief Constable","bio":"
Chris joined the force as Chief Constable in December 2020.<\/p>\n
His previous role was head of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and has led on major crime investigations, tackling serious and organised crime, covert policing and counter terrorism.<\/p>\n
In his time at EMSOU, the largest police collaboration in the UK, the unit saw an increase in operations completed, arrests made and convictions secured.<\/p>\n
Chris was raised in Zambia and Botswana before returning to Yorkshire for secondary school. He has a degree and a Masters from Leicester University.<\/p>\n
He joined Leicestershire Police in 1991 where he worked his way up from beat bobby to Detective Inspector through to Chief Superintendent.<\/p>\n
He was the Gold Commander for Leicester City Football Club for several years, including the Premiership winning season, and spent three years with Interpol tackling drug trafficking across the globe.<\/p>\n
In 2016 Mr Haward moved to Derbyshire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable and took over EMSOU in early 2018 in the rank of Deputy Chief Constable.<\/p>\n
He is married with two children.<\/p>","contact_details":{}},{"name":"Jason Harwin","rank":"Deputy Chief Constable","bio":"
Jason is the Deputy Chief Constable.<\/p>\n
He was appointed from Cleveland Police in June 2019 where he was\u00a0Assistant Chief Constable for two years.<\/p>\n
Prior to this he worked at South Yorkshire Police for 25 years in a variety of roles with a focus on local policing and partnership working. Jason was the force\u2019s Head of Business change and a Chief Superintendent for Rotherham during the child sexual exploitation investigations, where he worked to help rebuild confidence in the local authorities.<\/p>\n
Jason is currently a strategic commander for firearms incidents and the National Police Chief\u2019s Council lead for Drugs.<\/p>\n