Michael Fuller Chief Constable Kent Police

Michael joined the Metropolitan Police Service as a cadet in 1975. He has served in busy and demanding uniformed and CID positions throughout London and this has included service at New Scotland Yard. As a Detective Chief Inspector stationed at Shepherds Bush & Hammersmith, he devised a burglary control programme, which formed the basis for the MPS anti-burglary operation, ‘Operation Bumblebee’. At Paddington he devised innovative covert techniques to successfully tackle street robbery under the Operation Eagle Eye initiative.

As a Detective Superintendent at the Home Office, he worked as Staff Officer specialising in advice and carrying out inspections in relation to crime and counter-terrorism within Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.

In 1998 while at Scotland Yard, he helped set up the groundbreaking Racial and Violent Crime Task Force in response to criticism of the Metropolitan Police arising from the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.

Subsequent appointments and include; chief superintendent of Battersea police station, commander of the West Area serious crime group (overseeing murder and serious crime investigations), head of the Drugs Directorate, deputy assistant commissioner (director of intelligence) as part of the new specialist crime directorate at New Scotland Yard.

In 2001 he won the G2 ‘Man of the Year Award’ in recognition of his personal achievements & contribution to policing in London. Michael Fuller joined Kent Police as Chief Constable in January 2004.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in social psychology, and has attained a Masters in business administration from Henley Management College. He holds post graduate diplomas in law, marketing and criminology. He has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Sussex University and the University of East London. He is a non-practising barrister called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in July 2007.

He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service in July 2004.