MBE for longest-serving Asian special
The longest-serving Asian special constable in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been appointed MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours list following his 38 years of service.
The longest-serving Asian special constable in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been appointed MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours list following his 38 years of service.
Gurcharan Singh Dhesi joined the MPS in 1973 and has put in many hours every year and works with young people and the local community in Bexley.
The 61-year-old said: I am so happy to get this award. I have spent more than half my life at the MPS and I love it.
I regularly work between 700 and 1,000 hours a year. It is such an honour to be recognised like this. I really enjoy helping young people and the community.
The father of three came to the UK in 1960 after his father died. He added that since joining the service the landscape has changed considerably.
When I joined the MPS there were hardly any people wearing turbans and
now there are lots of us. It is great to see how things have developed in the MPS over the past 38 years.
A West Mercia Police officer who has spent many years making the neighbourhood he serves a safer place to live has been appointed MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours.
Sergeant Louis Hylton, who has served as a police officer for West Mercia Police for the past 23 years, received the honour for services to policing and the community.
It comes in recognition of Sgt
Hyltons work in tackling anti-social behaviour and the significant difference he has made to the engagement between the police service and the community.
Before joining the police service Sergeant Hylton served for 15 years in the Royal Artillery, including three tours of duty in Northern Ireland.
The honours include:
CBE
Peter Neyroud, QPM, chief constable and chief executive officer, National Policing
Improvement Agency.
OBE
Dr John William Bond, scientific support manager, Northamptonshire Police.
Richard Shaun Flynn, lately detective sergeant, Metropolitan Police Service.
John David Parkinson, assistant chief constable, West Yorkshire Police.
Feizal Hajat, head of community safety legal services at Birmingham City Council.
MBE
Mrs Janet Birkin, DL JP, lately chair, Derbyshire Police Authority.
Mrs Catherine Borsumato, lately, police staff, Cleveland Police.
David Alexander McClurg, MBE, chairman, Northern Ireland Police Fund.
Ms Tricia Brennan, head, Criminal Justice Department, Essex Police.
Peter Connolly, constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Ms Susan Dauncey, legal adviser, Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
Gurcharan Singh Dhesi, Metropolitan Police Service, special constabulary.
Mark Stephen Faint, chairman, Cheshire Police Federation.
Mrs Delyth Humphreys, chair, Dyfed Powys Police Authority.
Diana Barran, for services to victims of domestic violence.
Louis Charles Hylton, sergeant, West Mercia Police.
Ian Keith Kemp, head of operational command, traffic, Metropolitan Police Service.
Stephen Neville Osbaldeston, sergeant, Derbyshire Police.
Ms Hilary Short, West Yorkshire Police volunteer.
Brooke Kinsella, for services to the prevention of knife crime.
Ann Oakes-Odger, for services to the prevention of knife crime.
Peter Richard Taylor, mobile police station officer, Derbyshire Constabulary.
Dr Susan Mary Waterworth, forensic medical examiner, Durham Constabulary.
Queens Police Medal (QPM) England and Wales
Jawaid Akhtar, assistant chief constable, West Yorkshire Police.
Paul Allen, detective chief inspector, Metropolitan Police Service.
Jill Bailey, detective superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.
Mick Creedon, chief constable, Derbyshire Constabulary.
Stuart Donald, assistant chief constable, Humberside Police.
Christopher Eyre, deputy chief constable,