Matt Baggott
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Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2014
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Sir Matthew David Baggott [1]) is a retired senior British police officer. He was Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2014.
Career
Matt Baggott began his policing career in the Metropolitan Police in 1977[2], serving in the inner city areas of Tooting, Brixton and Peckham, as well as leading reviews on partnership, regeneration and inner city crime.[3]
He was Deputy Divisional Commander in Peckham before spending 18 months as a staff officer to Commissioner Paul Condon in the period 1992-94. In 1995 he returns to Peckham as Divisional Commander of Peckham with rank of Chief Superintendent.[2]
In 1998 he is brought back to the private office of Paul Condon when he is appointed to lead the Lawrence Review Team[2] which is charged with shaping the response of the Metropolitan Police to the Stephen Lawrence Public Inquiry.[4]. Serving under him were Superintendents Sara Thornton, Bob Quick and Mark Simmmons.[5] However, he leaves before the work of the Team is completed in September 1998.
Baggott was appointed Assistant Chief Constable in West Midlands Police in June 1998. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable in November 2001.[6] He was appointed Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary in 2002.[7]
Northern Ireland
In September 2009, he succeeded Sir Hugh Orde as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. In January 2014, it was announced that he would retire from the PSNI in September 2014, having decided that he would not apply to extend his contract.[8] On 5 June 2014, he announced that he would retire earlier than planned; stepping down on 29 June.[9]
He is President of the Christian Police Association.[10]
References
- ↑ Profile: Matt Baggott – The Times
- ↑ a b c Witness Statement to the Leveson Inquiry of Matthew Baggott, Chief Constable, Leveson Inquiry, 20 January 2011.
- ↑ New PSNI Chief Constable announced, Northern Ireland Policing Board, 11 August 2009.
- ↑ Mark Ellison, The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review,, UK Government, 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.85-86.
- ↑ John Grieve, 'Practical cop things to do': Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and changing the police mind-set, in Policing the Legacy of Lawrence, Nathan Hall, John Grieve & Stephen Savage (editors), 2009, p. 101.
- ↑ New PSNI Chief Constable announced, Northern Ireland Policing Board, 11 August 2009.
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8196175.stm
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25845319
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27714183
- ↑ http://www.cpauk.net/national-cpa/}
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