Sir Hugh Norman Annesley
QPM (born 22 June 1939) is a retired Irish/British police officer. He served as
Chief Constable of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary from June 1989 to November 1996.
Annesley was born in
Dublin
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and educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School and the
Avoca School where he played for the field hockey team.
He joined the
London Metropolitan Police
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as a
constable in 1958. Rising through the ranks to
chief superintendent
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in 1974, he attended the Special Course (1963), Intermediate Command Course (1971) and Senior Command Course (1975) at the
Police Staff College, Bramshill
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History
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, before transferring to
Sussex Police as
Assistant Chief Constable (Personnel & Operations) in 1976. He attended the
Royal College of Defence Studies
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in 1980 and the following year returned to the Metropolitan Police as
Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Central & North West London). In 1983 he became Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Personnel) and in 1984 was director of the Force Re-organisation Team.
Under the new organisational structure, in April 1985 he was appointed
Assistant Commissioner Personnel and Training (ACPT) and in 1987 became
Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations (ACSO). In 1986 he had graduated from the
FBI National Executive Institute in the United States. In 1989 he took up command of the RUC, despite the post being widely expected to go to
Geoffrey Dear, and held the post until his retirement in 1996.
Annesley was awarded the
Queen's Police Medal
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(QPM) in the
1986 New Year Honours
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and was
knighted in the
1992 New Year Honours
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.
Honours
Footnotes
References
*Biography, ''
Who's Who''
External links
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1939 births
Living people
People from Blackrock, Dublin
Chief Constables of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis
Knights Bachelor
Metropolitan Police recipients of the Queen's Police Medal
Irish male field hockey players
Field hockey players from County Dublin