Rob Beckley

Robert John Beckley is a British retired senior police officer, and was the High Sheriff of Somerset from 2024 to 2025. He was seconded as an assistant commissioner from the Metropolitan Police to the Home Office from November 2016 until March 2024 to head the Command Team of Operation Resolve, the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2007. He spent four years working in development and education in Africa before joining the police.

Career Beckley's first police service was with the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, Southall and New Scotland Yard (1986–1997), in which he rose to the rank of chief inspector, before being promoted to chief superintendent during a subsequent spell in Thames Valley Police (1997–2002). In April 2018, while seconded to the Home Office, he responded to the investigation into Operation Midland by recommending a move away from police automatically believing victims to one in which victims were reassured they were being listened to.

Beckley served as High Sheriff of Somerset from March 2024 to March 2025.

He actively supports and is a trustee of a number of charities, some local to Somerset, as well as international charities such as the Bishop Tutu Foundation and Project Trust.

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