Nick Adderley (b 1965) is a senior British police officer, currently serving as Chief Constable of

Northamptonshire Police Northamptonshire Police (colloquially known as Northants Police) is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England, in the United Kingdom. The Northampton Police area includ ...

Career

Adderley grew up in New Moston, Manchester and joined the

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in 1981. He then joined

Cheshire Constabulary Cheshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the English unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Borough of Halton and Borough of Warrington. The force is responsible for policing an are ...

as a

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and worked his way up to the rank of

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and left the Constabulary in 2010. He then took a break from the

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but continued public sector work in the Home Office for two years, then joined

Greater Manchester Police Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England. , Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...

(GMP) at his previous police rank of

. Within the GMP, he was promoted to

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in August 2011, just over a year after he returned to policing. In September 2013, he became the territorial commander of the North Manchester Division; although keeping the same rank it was a more senior role managing over 1400 officers covering the City of Manchester, Cheetham Hill, Blackley, Newton Heath, Moston and surrounding areas. In 2015 he was promoted to Assistant Chief Constable at

Staffordshire Police Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England. It is made up of eleven Local Policing Teams, whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authori ...

after completing his Strategic Command Course. As of 6 August 2018, Adderley became Chief Constable of

. He is also the

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(NPCC) National Lead for Disclosure and Safeguarding as well as Motorcycling and Criminal Use of Motorcycles. Adderley is soon to be the NPCC role regarding e-scooters. In 2019 Adderley was involved in the investigation of the

death of Harry Dunn Harry Dunn was a 19-year-old British man who died following a road traffic collision on 27 August 2019. He was riding his motorcycle near Croughton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, near the exit to RAF Croughton, when a car travelling in th ...

in a motor-cycle crash, where a suspect, the wife of a U.S. intelligence officer, claimed

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and left the United Kingdom. Adderley tweeted adversely on the parents decision to sue the suspect in the U.S. civil courts, prompting the parents to call on Adderley to resign. The parents referred Northamptonshire Police to the

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. The

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Stephen Mold spoke to Adderley about the tweet and said that the force's communications should "remain professional and sensitive". In April 2020, Adderley was rebuked by Home Secretary Priti Patel after controversial comments regarding his department's response to coronavirus received wide media attention. He had stated at a press conference that while his police would not, "at this stage, start to marshal supermarkets and heckthe items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it's a legitimate necessary item", that if people did not heed his warnings, "we will start to do that". Patel declared that his comments had been "inappropriate". Adderley subsequently backed away from the threatened policing shift.

References

External links

Official Northants Chief Twitter Account
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