Anthony Hamer Rennie Stansfeld () (born 14 October 1945) is a British

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politician who was the first

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(2012–21).

Career

Stansfeld has had a career in both the military and in industry. He enlisted in the

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at 17 and joined the

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where he saw active service in

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and

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. He learnt to fly helicopters at

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and commanded various Army Air Corps Squadrons, including the Army helicopters in the

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in the latter half of 1982. He spent two years as Chief of Staff Intelligence in the Far East. While in the Army he spent 4 months carrying out the reconnaissance for the crossing of the

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and

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, and led the first stage of

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, taking young people through the jungles of

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and

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. On leaving the Army he was Marketing Director, and then, for 6 years, Managing Director of the aircraft company Pilatus Britten Norman. At the same time he commanded the Army reserve helicopters as a Territorial Army officer. He has an MSc and studied international terrorism and global security at university.

Political career

Stansfeld was elected to

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as a

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in 2003 representing Kintbury Ward, having previously served on Kintbury Parish Council. He was a

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of the

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for 8 years. From 2008 to 2012 he was appointed to

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(becoming Chairman of the Performance Committee in 2011). He was the first person to serve as the

, being elected on 15 November 2012. In 2019, he was reported to have intervened in a case with which Thames Valley Police were not involved, on behalf of a fellow member of the International Tribunal for Natural Justice (ITNJ). This was the subject of a misconduct hearing and he was found, by the police force's complaints panel, to have acted outside his remit and he did not seek re-election. At a 2019 event organised by

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(founder of the ITNJ), Stansfeld was a guest speaker. He said "The implications of microwave radiation has increased exponentially and will continue to do so, and it does seriously need some very open scientific study to prove that it is safe and I don’t think we’ve got that at the moment."

References

Police and crime commissioners in England Living people Conservative Party police and crime commissioners 1945 births Conservative Party (UK) councillors Councillors in Berkshire 20th-century British Army personnel Royal Green Jackets officers British Army Air Corps officers Stansfeld family {{UK-law-enforcement-bio-stub