Alf Hitchcock

Alfred Henry Hitchcock (1958 – 16 June 2017) was a British police officer.

Hitchcock joined Lancashire Constabulary as a constable in 1977 just before his 19th birthday. He rose through the ranks to superintendent and served as associate director of the National Strategic Command Course at Bramshill Police College. In January 2003, he transferred to the Metropolitan Police in London as Commander Specialist Crime, and from 2004, was a Commander Territorial Policing, in command of nine London boroughs and appointed DAC Operational Services, where he was deputy head of professional standards, command and control, and diversity and citizen focus. He was promoted to acting assistant commissioner in 2007 and served as Assistant Commissioner Operational Services until 2008. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 2008 New Year Honours.

In April 2009, he retired from the Metropolitan Police, but immediately became managing director with the rank of deputy chief constable at the National Policing Improvement Agency at Bramshill, where he helped to set up the National College of Police Leadership. completely restructuring the force. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to defence and policing.

Hitchcock was the Association of Chief Police Officers national lead for knife crime from 2008, when he developed the National Tackling Knives Action Programme, and for equality and human rights from 2012 to 2016.

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