Chief Officers - Who We Are - About Us - Surrey Police

Chief Constable Lynne Owens

Lynne has overall accountability for the Force's performance and is responsible for the Force's direction and leadership, stakeholder relations and political engagement.

She was appointed Chief Constable of Surrey Police in February 2012.

She began her police career in the Metropolitan Police Service, posted to Catford in South East London. She transferred to Kent Police on promotion to Sergeant, where she trained and specialised as a detective.

As a Detective Chief Inspector she was posted to the force major crime department as a Senior Investigating officer. On transferring to Surrey in 2002, Lynne became a BCU Commander of a division, covering three boroughs. In January 2005, she was appointed Temporary Assistant Chief Constable (Specialist Operations). During that time she qualified as a Gold firearms Commander and took Gold Command of a number of critical incidents. Following successful completion of the Strategic Command Course, she was appointed Assistant Chief Constable (Territorial Operations), with responsibility for territorial divisions, partnership, criminal justice and neighbourhood policing.

In March 2008, Lynne was appointed as the Temporary Deputy Chief Constable leading a significant organisational change programme, professional standards department and collaboration in the South East Region. In April 2009 she transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service having been substantively appointed as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner responsible for Operations within Territorial Policing.

In December 2010 she took up post as an Assistant Commissioner as part of the MPS Management Board. She led on public order and event policing, including the delivery of the Royal Wedding in 2011, as well as other, predominantly uniformed Police Services. From August 2011 she was also responsible for the Specialist Crime Directorate.

She was awarded the Queens Police Medal for distinguished service in the New Years Honours (2008).

Deputy Chief Constable Craig Denholm

Craig is responsible for risk, reputation, and results, coordinating both delivery and improvement across the Force in line with the Surrey Public First strategy and the direction agreed with the Chief Constable. He is also the Champion for diversity and leadership within the Force.

He was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey Police in June 2009. His policing career began in the Metropolitan Police in 1984. He has spent the majority of his career within the Criminal Investigation Department, including periods involved in anti-corruption, intelligence, drugs enforcement and other major crime investigations. He undertook senior roles in the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and Hampshire Constabulary before beginning his first tenure at Surrey Police between 2001 and 2008.

During this period with Surrey he was appointed the Head of the Crime Management Department. While in Surrey, Craig also took on the roles of Divisional Commander and Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Territorial Policing.

Prior to his return to Surrey Police his most recent posting was at the Metropolitan Police, where he served as a Commander within the Counter Terrorism area of the Force's Specialist Operations department.

Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Kirkby

Jerry's role is to ensure the Force delivers on operational performance in line with the Local Policing Plan for the coming year. This includes overall responsibility for the Force's four operational functions: Response, Investigation, Neighbourhoods and Tasking & Co-ordination.

Jerry has had a long association with Surrey Police, beginning his career here as a Constable in 1983.

In 1998 he transferred to the Metropolitan Police on promotion to Chief Inspector, serving at Wandsworth, Southwark and Sutton. He also had two postings to Scotland Yard, the latter being as the Head of Internal Communications and Publicity for the MPS.

In 2001 Jerry returned to Surrey on promotion to Superintendent and took up the role of Head of Operations at North West Surrey. A year later he returned to where he started his career, as the Divisional Commander for West Surrey, covering Guildford and Waverley Boroughs.

Jerry became the National Director for the Neighbourhood Policing Programme in June 2005 and led a team that supported the 43 forces in implementing Neighbourhood Policing across England and Wales.

He is also the ACPO lead for Police Community Support Officers.

Assistant Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney

Olivia is a member of both the Surrey and Sussex Chief Officer teams and is responsible for collaboration of major crime, firearms and scientific support, as well as leading for the two forces on the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit. She is also the Sussex lead on counter terrorism.

In addition, Olivia is the national ACPO lead for migration and related matters.

She is from Devon and has an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University. She started her police career as a PC with Avon and Somerset, progressing to Detective Sergeant, Detective Chief Inspector, Head of Special Branch, BCU Superintendent and BCU Commander. She moved to Sussex in 2009 as ACC in charge of Protective Services and policing at Gatwick.

Assistant Chief Officer Clare Davies

Clare is responsible for delivering and improving support services, including ICT, Human Resources and Finance. She ensures these services support front line policing and is responsible for strategic planning of resources, training and reducing bureaucracy and costs.

Clare started her career with Surrey Police in 1991 in the Criminal Justice department, later moving into call handling and incident management.

She transferred to Headquarters in 1996 to support the implementation of a new Command and Control system before moving into ICT training. She went on to specialise in learning & development and qualified as a chartered member of CIPD, prior to moving to North Surrey division in 2003 as an HR Manager. In 2006 she returned to Headquarters as Head of Employee Relations, then as Head of HR Operations. After completing the Strategic Command Course in March 2009 Clare became Head of Corporate Development, when her responsibilities included Strategic Planning, Audit & Review, Performance Management & Consultation and Strategic Change.