Chief Officers

John Campbell QPM, LLB, MBA

Chief Constable

John has 30 years police service and has worked in three police forces. He originally joined West Midlands Police in 1988, before transferring to Hampshire Constabulary in 2001 and joined Thames Valley Police in July 2010.

He has held operational and command roles across a number of disciplines, including criminal investigation, specialist operations and local policing and worked as a Hostage and Crisis negotiator.

Whilst in Hampshire he spent 4 years as the Police Commander in Portsmouth and then became the Chief Superintendent in charge of Uniform Operations, before joining Thames Valley. He later went on to command uniform operations across both Forces as Assistant Chief Constable (Operations), moving to ACC Crime in 2013 and Deputy Chief Constable in May 2015.

On the 13 February 2019, John was confirmed as the next Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, taking over from Chief Constable in Francis Habgood on the 1 April.

John is an experienced operational commander and as Chief Officer in Thames Valley was responsible for the policing of the Olympic events, including the South East regional phase of the Torch Relay. He also led the multi-agency response to the Flooding in Oxfordshire and Berkshire in 2014. He has also commanded numerous firearms and public order events.

He leads nationally for the Police in respect of how they respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear incidents and attacks.

In 2015 he received the Queens Police Medal, in the birthday’s honours list for services to policing.

Jason Hogg

Deputy Chief Constable

Jason Hogg joined Thames Valley Police in June 2016 as Assistant Chief Constable Crime and Criminal Justice and then for Counter Terrorism Policing South East & Regional Organised Crime Unit.

On the 1 April 2019, Jason took up the role of Deputy Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.

Jason previously worked for Hampshire Constabulary where he held a number of roles as a Chief Superintendent including Head of Crime and Head of Prevention and Neighbourhoods. He started his police career at Cleveland Police in 1995 before transferring to Hampshire in 2001.

He has spent most of his career working in Criminal Investigation roles, serving as a detective in every rank. He has been a member of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Child Protection and Child Death working groups and was involved in delivering training on the National Senior Investigation Officer (SIO) development programme. During his career Jason has been on extended secondments with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

He leads nationally for the Police in respect of Prisons and Lifetime Offender Management which is focused on developing an approach to disrupting the highest risk individuals engaged in organised crime. He also leads nationally on Detective Recruitment and ensuring the Police Service has sufficient numbers of accredited investigators to investigate crime and bring offenders to justice.

Tim Metcalfe

Temporary Assistant Chief Constable – Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police – Operations

Tim began his policing career with West Midlands Police alternating between uniform and detective posts before transferring to Thames Valley Police in 2014. Tim is currently the Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Operations with portfolio lead for the Joint Operations Unit (JOU) and Contact Management for Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police.

Tim has a responsibility across Hampshire and Thames Valley for Firearms, Strategic Operations, Roads Policing, the Dog, Marine and Mounted sections, Civil Contingencies, front counters and Contact Management. He is the regional lead for firearms, Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) and is also the National Police Air Service (NPAS) liaison for the South East region.

Tim is a Strategic Firearms Commander, Strategic CBRN Commander and POPS Gold Commander. Before this role, Tim was the head of Resources and Resilience in Thames Valley and has been the commander at Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale LPAs.

During his career he has performed a variety of uniform and detective roles as a Professionalising the Investigation Process 3 Senior Investigating Officer (PIP3 SIO) . He has also led on a number of regional and national programmes relating to the development of the National Counter Terrorism Network (2006-2012). In 2015 he became the first Chief of Staff to the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council working closely with Chief Constable Sara Thornton to establish the new organisation.

Tim is a graduate of London University and also holds a MA in History and Politics from London, an MSc in Criminology from Leicester University and an MBA from the University of Birmingham. He is currently completing a doctorate in Criminology at the University of Oxford focusing on police leadership, legitimacy and institutional theory.

Christian Bunt

Temporary Assistant Chief Constable – Local Policing

Christian joined Thames Valley Police in 2002 as a Police Constable, transferring from Hampshire Constabulary. Christian has worked much of his 20-year career in Local Policing roles at all ranks. This included patrol, neighbourhood policing and custody. He was a Local Police Area Commander for six years, heading up Wokingham as a Chief Inspector and then Oxford City on promotion to Superintendent. Christian has also worked on various force change programmes, has worked with the Home Office and as a Chief Inspector was Head of Training Delivery. In 2016 he obtained a Masters from Cambridge University in applied criminology and police management.

In 2017, Christian was promoted to Chief Superintendent as Head of Contact Management for Thames Valley and Hampshire Constabulary, which is one of our collaborated units with responsibility for both forces, control rooms and call centres. In March 2020, Christian moved to a new role as Head of Local Policing for Thames Valley.
Christian has performed operational command roles at all ranks including 15 years as a Public Order Commander, commanding some of the force’s largest events and operations over this period. He is a Strategic Commander for Public Order, Firearms and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) incidents and attacks. Most recently, Christian has been the Force Gold Commander for Op Restore, overseeing and leading our response to COVID-19.

Tim De Meyer

Assistant Chief Constable – Crime and Criminal Justice

Tim joined Thames Valley Police in 2008 on promotion to Superintendent, taking up the position of LPA Commander for the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead.

Tim began his police career with the Metropolitan Police Service in 1997. During his service for the Met he served in detective roles at each rank, in various Boroughs and specialist departments across South and West London.

In 2012 Tim was promoted to Chief Superintendent – Neighbourhood Policing & Partnership before becoming Head of Professional Standards in 2014. Tim has been a Strategic Firearms Commander and Gold Public Order Commander since 2013.

Tim attended the Strategic Command Course in 2017.

Peter O'Doherty

Assistant Chief Constable – South East Regional lead for Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime.

Peter O’Doherty joined Thames Valley Police in July 2019 as Assistant Chief Constable - Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime. The regional command covers the police force areas of Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Peter is part of the Chief Constable's Management Team and also assumes gold commander responsibilities for Thames Valley Police.

Peter joined the region from City of London Police where he started his career. He spent a number of years as a detective working across volume, major and specialist crime. Pete went on to specialise in cyber and economic crime, and was later in his service seconded into the Metropolitan Police Service as the as Head of Uniformed Operations at the London Borough of Newham.

In 2017 Peter returned to the City of London Police as Detective Chief Superintendent, Head of Crime and Counter Terrorism, and then went on to lead the City of London Police’s Economic Crime Directorate that acts as the national lead for fraud on behalf of UK policing. In this role Pete worked with government to further the UK policing response to cyber and economic crime, and helped to build economic crime capabilities across local, regional, national and international policing.

Mike Lattanzio

Temporary Assistant Chief Officer – Chief Information Officer

Mike has over 30 years’ experience working in IT across finance, insurance, retail and tourism sectors before coming to Thames Valley Police, he is undertaking an interim role to continue the transformation and shape the portfolio for the future.

Dr Steven Chase OBE

Assistant Chief Officer – Director of People

Steven Chase joined Thames Valley Police in April 1997 as Head of Human Resources and was appointed Director of People in September 2012.

Previously, he had served for over 20 years in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Group Captain. Steven holds a Doctorate in Business Administration and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He is also President of the CIPD Police Forum. Steven was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year 2017 Honours List.

Steven's role is to provide professional leadership of all aspects of the People Directorate function with a particular focus on leadership, organisational development, people services, learning and professional development, corporate health and support and health and safety.

Linda Waters

Assistant Chief Officer – Director of Finance

Linda is a chartered accountant and has been with Thames Valley Police for 25 years. She was appointed to the role of Director of Finance in 2012.

The Finance department is responsible for providing the full range of financial services to the force including financial management, payroll and procure to pay.

Jason Morley-Smith MStJ

Chief Officer - Special Constabulary

Jason joined Thames Valley Police Special Constabulary in 2000 and was appointed Chief Officer of Thames Valley Police Special Constabulary in November 2016.

In 2002 he was awarded an Area Commander's Commendation for saving the life of a member of the public, who had collapsed and was in cardiac arrest. He has also served as the senior special constable for several high profile public events across the force. In 2007 was awarded the title of Thames Valley Police Special Constable of the Year and in 2015 was recognised by Her Majesty the Queen and invested in the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem for his services to St. John Ambulance for over 35 years.

Jason has served at every rank in the special constabulary whilst in Thames Valley Police and leads over 500 specials. He is a member of the Association of Special Constabulary Chief Officers (ASCCO) and is the Deputy Regional representative for the South East Forces, where he represents the interests of Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex and British Transport Police (Southern Region).

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