Rachel Barber has been appointed as Nottinghamshire Police’s new Deputy Chief Constable.
She will start the role in April 2017 and take over from current DCC Simon Torr who is set to retire in May.
Rachel has worked for South Yorkshire Police since 1988 where she completed a number of operational roles – including working as the staff officer to the Chief Constable and in national planning for the G8 summit in 2005.
The position also saw her in the Cabinet Office briefing room in Whitehall after the 7/7 bombings in London.
She also took on the staff officer role as the national lead for football policing.
She was selected as a Police Commander for the England International Football Operation, which saw her travel across the world and finish as the police delegation commander for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
Nottinghamshire Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford said: “After a testing recruitment process, I am pleased that Rachel will be joining us next month.
“She brings a wealth of operational and organisational policing experience to Nottinghamshire and will be an asset to the organisation.”
Rachel has undertaken senior management positions and has worked as the Head of the South Yorkshire Police specialist uniform operations.
During this time Rachel helped the Force to save more than £3.5 million within her specialist operations portfolio, delivering effective support to local policing and ensuring the Force maintained the Strategic Policing Requirement.
The new structures formed the foundation for the move to Joint Specialist Operations provision across the South Yorkshire and Humberside Strategic Partnership.
Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner said: “Rachel has all the skills necessary to complement our recently appointed Chief Constable, Craig Guildford.
“She brings a wealth of experience and I know that she will add much to Nottinghamshire.
“I would also like to thank our outgoing Deputy, Simon Torr, for his huge contribution to community safety in general and Nottinghamshire Police in particular over the past four years.
“His work has led to significant improvements in the delivery of stop and search and the introduction of body worn video and he has been at the forefront of the work to protect the delivery of local policing services.”
