Alex Marshall Chief Constable Hampshire Constabulary

Alex Marshall was appointed Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary succeeding Paul Kernaghan on October 16, 2008.

Mr Marshall spent the first 20 years of his career with the Metropolitan Police Service and worked throughout south London before transferring to Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 2000.

He also spent time on a secondment 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 in charge of the Operational Support portfolio. During this time he was Gold commander for Royal Ascot and managed the policing operation for the wedding of HRH Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles in Windsor.

He became acting deputy chief constable in January 2006 and was appointed as deputy chief constable in May 2007. Throughout this time he has overseen the policing of animal rights extremism and, in particular, the campaign against a controversial animal research centre being built by Oxford University.

Mr Marshall, who studied at Wolfson College and the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and became a Cropwood Fellow in 1999, also obtained a Masters Degree in Criminology at the University of Cambridge in 2006.

At a national level, he holds the ACPO pre-trial portfolio providing a lead on custody