Herefordshire Superintendent Biography

Superintendent Charles Hill

Charles began his police career in 1988, joining the Metropolitan Police after attending the Police Training School at Hendon.  His first posting was at Stoke Newington and over the next four years Charles served in a variety of roles in response policing and on crime squads.

In 1992 Charles joined the Traffic Unit at Bow in East London, predominantly patrolling on a police motorcycle, and a year later was posted to Kilburn in North London on uniform patrol and also tutoring new student officers.

He transferred to West Mercia Police in 1995, initially on response policing at Malinsgate in Telford and then at Market Drayton.  He again tutored a number of new officers during this period.

In 1998 Charles was promoted to sergeant at Shrewsbury and over the next three years performed roles on response, local policing and in custody. Promoted to inspector in 2001, he ran a response shift covering the whole of Shropshire.  A variety of other roles followed, including time as the geographic inspector for North Shropshire and a spell in CID.  During this period Charles qualified as a public order and firearms commander.

A move to North Worcestershire followed his promotion to chief inspector in 2005, where he became district commander at Bromsgrove and was chair of the Bromsgrove Community Safety Partnership.

In 2007, Charles was promoted to temporary superintendent as staff officer to the lead of the Association of Chief Police Officers Working Group on Armed Policing.  Over the next three years he was responsible for facilitating work around armed policing throughout the UK in liaison with key stakeholders such as the Home Office and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.

Charles was promoted permanently to superintendent in 2008 and in 2009 was posted to the Force Operations Department at headquarters, where he implemented the Force Operations Support Team, a new dedicated force-wide unit responsible for armed and roads policing.  More recently, he has been working on the peer review of Cumbria Constabulary's response to the murder of 12 people by Derek Bird in June 2010.

He joined the Herefordshire Territorial Policing Unit in September 2010 as area commander, where he is looking forward to using his operational policing background to meet the county's future challenges.

Charles is married with two daughters and in his spare time enjoys keeping fit, gardening and fly fishing.