Martin John Surl (born March 1957) is a retired British police officer and consultant who served as the Independent

Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner The Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Gloucestershire Police in the English County of Gloucestershire. The post was created ...

from 2012 to 2021. The first person to hold the post, he was elected on 15 November 2012. He was reelected in 2016. He was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate in 2021, finishing third behind the Liberal Democrats. Born and raised in

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, Surl joined the

Gloucestershire Constabulary Gloucestershire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire in England. The force formerly covered the area of South Gloucestershire, however this was transformed to the ...

in May 1980. He later became a detective and was promoted to Superintendent in 2000. In 2001 he was seconded to the

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to help modernise that country's police service and develop crime reduction partnerships. In 2005, Surl received the Estonian Order of Merit in recognition of his work to introduce child protection measures. In 2006, Surl became a Director o
Baltic Leisure Enterprises Limited
In 2007, he was seconded to the

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and Allied Matters branch (ACPO, TAM) to help set up the UK's policing

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network. In 2012 Surl beat

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(Conservative) and two other candidates for the Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commission. Atkins won on first preference votes, but Surl won the second preferences that were allocated. He was reelected on 5 May 2016 to another four-year term. In 2013, Surl proposes and eventually receives a 2% increase in the police budget in order to tackle Cyber bullying and online fraud. In 2021, Surl comes third in the local PCC elections and subsequently loses his position as the Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner.

External links

Official Website

References

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