Cumbria Constabulary

Cumbria Constabulary (1967)

• 1968–1980 : William Cavey[9]
• 1980–1987 : Barry David Keith Price[10]
• 1988–1991 : Sir Leslie Sharp
• 1991–1997 : Alan Elliott[11]
• 1997–2001 : Colin Phillips[12]
• 2001–2007 : Michael Baxter[13]
• 2007–2012 : Craig Thomas Mackey
• 2012–2013 : Stuart Hyde[14]
• 2014–2018 : Jerry Graham[15]
• 2018–2023 : Michelle Skeer[16][17]
• 2023–Present : Rob Carden[18]

The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers.[19]

• Thomas Jardine was unlawfully killed during election riots near the Market Cross in Carlisle. On the night of 29 June 1841, he was struck with a sailor's 'Life Preserver', a lead weighted whalebone, and died the next morning, 30 June. Two men stood trial for murder, one was convicted of manslaughter and the other acquitted. His assailant was transported to Van Diemen's Land for life. Jardine was buried in Christ Church on Botchergate in the city and lies in an unmarked grave.
• Constable James Armstrong died on 30 September 1847 making his way back at night from Pooley Bridge to his town of Keswick. He fell over a crag having got disorientated in the dark after losing his way.
• October 29 1885, Pc Byrnes, an officer with the then Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary, was hunting three men wanted for burglary at nearby Netherby Hall. Despite knowing they were armed, he challenged Anthony Rudge, John Martin and James Baker, who had already shot and injured Police Sergeant William Roche. Pc Byrnes was blasted in the head, thrown over a wall and left to die. He was located a short time later and carried to a local inn, where he died on the morning of October 30, 1885. The three suspects were caught, convicted of murder at the Court of Assize in Carlisle, and hanged in Carlisle jail on February 8 1886
• On 3 July 1915, Reserve Police Constable Andrew Johnstone was on duty near Carlisle railway station when he reported to his sergeant that he was feeling ill. He was told to make his way home, but he never arrived and was found drowned in a dammed river in Denton Holme.
• The force's first, and to date only, murder of an officer occurred on 10 February 1965. Constable George William Russell, aged 36, was fatally shot when, unarmed and knowing that colleagues had already been fired on, he confronted an armed suspect and called upon him to surrender at the railway station in Kendal. Russell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal for gallantry and a memorial plaque has been unveiled on a wall at Carlisle Cathedral.[19]
• PC Keith Easterbrook (died 3 June 1993, aged 36) was fatally injured in a road traffic accident, while assisting in a vehicle pursuit, when a van he was overtaking pulled out and collided with his police motorcycle, on the A595 near Workington.
• PC William "Bill" Barker was killed whilst on duty on 20 November 2009. At night during severe weather and flooding across the county, the officer was directing motorists to safety off Northside Bridge, Workington, which was in a dangerous condition, when the bridge was destroyed by the flood and he was swept away and killed, his body was found on a beach at Allonby that afternoon. Barker had completed 25 years police service and was a traffic officer attached to the Roads Policing Unit based at Workington; he had won a number of awards during his service.
• PC Nick Dumphreys was killed on duty on 26 January 2020, when his vehicle crashed whilst responding to an emergency call in the Carlisle area. PC Dumphreys was part of Cumbria Constabulary's roads policing unit. An investigation into his death is ongoing.[20][21]

This command is further divided into three geographic Territorial Policing Areas (TPAs) to cover the county, an operational support section and a command and control section. Each TPA is led by a Superintendent and is further divided into districts and then teams for the purposes of neighbourhood policing. The major elements of the Territorial Policing Command are as follows:

Responsible for neighbourhood and response policing across the following geographic areas:

• Carlisle District
• Eden District

Responsible for neighbourhood and response policing across the following geographic areas:

• Barrow Borough District
• South Lakeland District

Responsible for neighbourhood and response policing across the following geographic areas

• Allerdale District
• Copeland District

Within this section are force wide units which support the TPAs or units from the Crime Command, or provide a specialist service:

• Roads Policing
• Firearms
• Dog section
• Proactive Support Group
• Civil Contingencies
• Collision Investigation
• Firearms Licensing
• Safety Camera/Central Ticket Office

Within this section is the Command and Control Room (dispatch), including the Force Incident Manager (FIM) and the call taking centre.

This command is responsible for significant investigations and is predominantly staffed by detectives. The command is divided as follows:

• Intelligence
  • Force Intelligence Bureau
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Area Intelligence Units
• Operations
  • Public Protection Units
  • CID Volume Crimes
  • Force Major Investigations
  • Safeguarding Hub
• Forensics