Hampshire Chief Constable Alex Marshall has been awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
 
Mr Marshall is on holiday, but Deputy Chief Constable Simon Cole said:
 
“I am sure everyone in the constabulary will join me in congratulating Chief Constable Alex Marshall on this award of the Queen’s Police Medal in recognition of his 29 years’ service to policing.”
 
Mr Marshall, 47, joined Hampshire Constabulary in October, 2008, from Thames Valley Police, where he was deputy chief constable.
 
He spent the first 20 years of his career with the Metropolitan Police Service, working throughout south London, before transferring to Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 2000.

He also was seconded to the Home Office as national bureaucracy advisor, visiting police forces in England and Wales to improve the efficiency of frontline policing.
 
In August, 2004, he was appointed assistant chief constable at Thames Valley Police, where he was in charge of the Operational Support portfolio.  During this time, he was gold commander for Royal Ascot and managed policing for the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles at Windsor.
 
He was named acting deputy chief constable in January, 2006, and was appointed as deputy chief constable in May, 2007.  He oversaw the policing of animal rights extremism and, in particular, the campaign against a controversial animal research centre being built by Oxford University.
 
Mr Marshall studied at Wolfson College and the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge.  He became a Cropwood Fellow in 1999 and obtained a Masters Degree in criminology at the University of Cambridge in 2006.