Neil Evans: New GMP Chief Superintendent

Date published: 09 January 2017


Chief Superintendent Neil Evans takes over the Rochdale, Oldham and Tameside division of Greater Manchester Police from Monday 9 January.

Chief Superintendent Evans, who has been promoted, will hold responsibility for the policing team in the area.

He joined GMP in 2010 and since then has worked in the Force Intelligence Branch and in Tameside, lately seconded to the GM Combined Authority Public Service Reform Team.

He started his policing career with West Midlands Police in 1989, working in Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Chief Superintendent Evans was Ground Commander for the Shaw gas explosion in 2012, in which a little boy lost his life, and he also led the major safeguarding operation following the murder of four people in Tameside in 2012, including GMP colleagues PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes.

 

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