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Colin Cramphorn
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Colin Cramphorn, CBE, QPM, DL, FRSA (died 30 November 2006) was the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police from September 2002 to November 2006.
Colin Cramphorn was educated at Strodes Grammar School, Egham, before joining the Surrey Constabulary in 1975. In 1995 he was appointed an Assistant Chief Constable with West Mercia Constabulary. In 1998 he moved to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and he was briefly Acting Chief Constable of the RUC's successor, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, prior to the appointment of Sir Hugh Orde in May 2002. Cramphorn continued as Orde's deputy until September 2002, when he was appointed Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the Institute of Business Ethics and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (formerly the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency), and an Associate of St George's House, Windsor.
He was also a patron of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Research Equipment Fund, a member of the Council of the Order of St John South and West Yorkshire, and a Vice-President of the Yorkshire Society.
In the 2004 New Year Honours, Cramphorn was awarded the Queen's Police Medal. In January 2006 he was appointed to serve as a Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire. In the 2007 New Years Honours Cramphorn was awarded the CBE posthumously; he had accepted the nomination before his death, and the award was retroactively dated 28 November 2006.
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| Police Appointments | ||
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| Preceded by Graham Moore |
Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police 2002-2006 |
Succeeded by Norman Bettison |
| Preceded by Ronnie Flanagan |
(Acting) Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 2002 |
Succeeded by Hugh Orde |