Hugh Annesley (police officer)

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 and educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School and the Avoca School where he played for the field hockey team. [1] He joined the London Metropolitan Police as a constable in 1958. Rising through the ranks to chief superintendent in 1974, he attended the Special Course (1963), Intermediate Command Course (1971) and Senior Command Course (1975) at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, before transferring to Sussex Police as Assistant Chief Constable (Personnel & Operations) in 1976. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies 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)[2] 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,[3] and held the post until his retirement in 1996.

Annesley was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 1986 New Year Honours[4] and was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours.[5]

Honours

Ribbon	Description	Notes
	Knight Bachelor (Kt)	1992
	Queen's Police Medal (QPM)	1986
	Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal
	Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

Footnotes

1. "RUC to make historic journey for Junior Cup tie". www.irishtimes.com. 12 January 1996. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
2. "Latest Appointments", The Times, 6 April 1985
3. "Yard man appointed new RUC chief constable", The Times, 24 February 1989
4. "No. 50361". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1985. p. 25.
5. "No. 52767". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1991. p. 1.

References

• Biography, Who's Who

External links

• CAIN Web Service - Biographies of Prominent People - Annesley, Hugh Norman

Police appointments
Preceded by Unknown	Assistant Chief Constable (Personnel & Operations), Sussex Police 1976–1981	Succeeded by Unknown
Preceded by Unknown	Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Central & NW London), Metropolitan Police 1981–1983	Succeeded by Unknown
Preceded by Unknown	Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Personnel), Metropolitan Police 1983–1984	Succeeded by Unknown
Preceded by First incumbent	Assistant Commissioner Personnel & Training, Metropolitan Police 1985–1987	Succeeded by Colin Sutton
Preceded by John Dellow	Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations, Metropolitan Police 1987–1989	Succeeded by John Smith
Preceded by Sir John Hermon	Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1989–1996	Succeeded by Ronnie Flanagan