Hampshire Constabulary has a new Deputy Chief Constable.
Ben Snuggs started in the role on Friday (3rd September) replacing DCC Sara Glen, who is shortly retiring after 30 years of service.
Speaking on his first day, DCC Snuggs said:
“I know how passionate the officers and staff I work alongside are about preventing crime and supporting victims. My job is to ensure we all have the right focus and harness that commitment to deliver the best possible service to the public. Hampshire’s where my heart is, it’s where my home is and why I’m really excited about being the Deputy Chief Constable and serving all of our communities.”
Chief constable Olivia Pinkney said:
“The first of our 600 new officers are starting to hit the streets, public expectations are high, and the Police and Crime Commissioner is developing her new Police and Crime Plan. With policing becoming more complex, the role of deputy is even more crucial in ensuring we can continue to deliver the best service we can with the resources we have. Having a deputy who lives and breathes Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and is so victim focused, is the perfect match.”
A graduate of law and the FBI National Academy, DCC Snuggs has served the people of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight since September 1996. He is an experienced Chief Officer having served in an Assistant Chief Constable role since January 2017 overseeing Crime, Criminal Justice and Intelligence in Hampshire, and the Joint Operations Unit and Contact Management across Hampshire and Thames Valley.
More widely, DCC Snuggs chairs the national Forensic Information Database Services (FINDS) Strategy Board on behalf of the National Police Chief’s Council. He is a member of the national cadre of chief officers who assume overall tactical command for resolving Counter Terrorism incidents, and in 2009 he undertook service in Afghanistan as a European Union Police Mission civilian police advisor to the Minister of the Interior.
Ben is married and has 2 daughters. He is also a keen runner and sea kayaker.
Little point in merely identifying perpetrators of crime, we could ALL do that.
They need courts to lock them away for long periods as a deterrent to others or those about to re-offend.
Yet as our jails are now bursting with the worlds as well as our ‘own’ finest, there is no hope of crime dropping as judges can now, thanks to the ‘inorganic’ growth in the prison population only jail the very worst offenders, and the REST know this and act accordingly
Maybe doing away with capitol punishment is one reason for things being so bad, there is no real deterrent anymore and the scum know it. Plus of course there are more scum than every before, obvious why.
As a recent victim of crime, costing thousands of pounds worth of damage to my company I’ve come to wonder why we bother paying our taxes?! Hand on heart the police have a mounting to climb for me to gain trust in such a shambolic organisation.
My honest opinion?! Go back to basics.
PSO said today at Wolverton Manor that you guys turn up on every occasion..lol 11days after the event is nothing more than a disgrace.