Colin Ralph Cramphorn CBE, QPM, DL,

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(1 April 1956 – 30 November 2006) was the Chief Constable of

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from September 2002 to November 2006. Colin Cramphorn was educated at Strode's Grammar School,

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, before joining the

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in 1975. In September 1981 he went as a Bramshill scholar to the Faculty of Law (as it then was),

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, to study for the LL.B., and successfully graduated in June 1984. In 1995 he was appointed an Assistant Chief Constable with

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. In 1998 he moved to the

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and he was briefly Acting Chief Constable of the RUC's successor, the

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, prior to the appointment of Sir Hugh Orde in May 2002. Cramphorn continued as Orde's deputy until September 2002, when he was appointed Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. Colin Cramphorn died of prostate cancer in November 2006 at the age of 50.BBC 26 May 2004
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Affiliations

He was a Fellow of the RSA and of the

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, a member of the Institute of Business Ethics and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (formerly the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency), and an Associate of St George's House, Windsor. He was also a patron of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Research Equipment Fund, a member of the Council of the Order of St John South and West Yorkshire, and a Vice-President of the

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Honours

In the

2004 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2004 were appointments by some of the Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations ...

, Cramphorn was awarded the Queen's Police Medal. In January 2006 he was appointed to serve as a Deputy Lieutenant for

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. In the

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Cramphorn was awarded the CBE posthumously; he had accepted the nomination before his death from prostate cancer, and the award was retroactively dated 28 November 2006.

Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon

UK Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal ribbon

Police Long Service and Good Conduct ribbon

* He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for

(DL) in January 2006. * He was a

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of the

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(FRSA).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cramphorn, Colin 1956 births 2006 deaths Alumni of King's College London Associates of King's College Chief Constables of West Yorkshire Police Royal Ulster Constabulary officers Police Service of Northern Ireland officers English recipients of the Queen's Police Medal People from Surrey Deputy Lieutenants of West Yorkshire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deaths from prostate cancer Deaths from cancer in England Place of birth missing Place of death missing