Sarah Crew

Sarah Crew QPM is a British Police chief constable. She became Avon and Somerset's first woman chief constable in November 2021.

Life Crew attended Bristol Grammar School. The staff there gave her extra lessons to support her application to Oxford University to study Classics, which she completed at Magdalen College. She became Avon and Somerset Police's first woman chief constable in November 2021, when she was promoted from the deputy position.

Criticism followed the screening of a Channel 4 programme that looked at how the police investigated themselves in Avon and Somerset. The local police federation raised objections even though they, like Crew, had agreed to the filming, which had begun in 2019. Crew noted that it was never anticipated that interest would be so high. The TV series To Catch a Copper was first screened in January 2024 after scandals involving women's treatment by the police.

Eighty women had been killed in the UK in 2024. Jess Phillips the newly appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls had committed to end the "scourge of femicide" and the Guardian had announced that it intended to report every death in 2015. Crew was interviewed in January 2025, where she cautioned domestic abusers that they were being offered help but the police intended to arrest offenders.

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