A NEW Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) has been appointed to join the Chief Officer team for both West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police.
Superintendent Geoff Wessell, from Avon and Somerset Police, has been appointed as ACC for Shared Policing Services.
The role has responsibility for protective services areas of business, including operations, communications and criminal justice, and responsibility for the alliance on the regional organised crime unit, strategic roads policing, public order and firearms.
ACC Wessell will work with each of the two existing ACCs for local policing in West Mercia and Warwickshire and oversee the delivery of the policing services in both forces.