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Chris joined the force as Chief Constable in December 2020.

His previous role was head of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and has led on major crime investigations, tackling serious and organised crime, covert policing and counter terrorism.

In his time at EMSOU, the largest police collaboration in the UK, the unit saw an increase in operations completed, arrests made and convictions secured.

Chris was raised in Zambia and Botswana before returning to Yorkshire for secondary school. He has a degree and a Masters from Leicester University.

He joined Leicestershire Police in 1991 where he worked his way up from beat bobby to Detective Inspector through to Chief Superintendent.

He was the Gold Commander for Leicester City Football Club for several years, including the Premiership winning season, and spent three years with Interpol tackling drug trafficking across the globe.

In 2016 Mr Haward moved to Derbyshire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable and took over EMSOU in early 2018 in the rank of Deputy Chief Constable.

He is married with two children.

Jason is the Deputy Chief Constable.

He was appointed from Cleveland Police in June 2019 where he was Assistant Chief Constable for two years.

Prior to this he worked at South Yorkshire Police for 25 years in a variety of roles with a focus on local policing and partnership working. Jason was the force’s Head of Business change and a Chief Superintendent for Rotherham during the child sexual exploitation investigations, where he worked to help rebuild confidence in the local authorities.

Jason is currently a strategic commander for firearms incidents and the National Police Chief’s Council lead for Drugs.

Kerrin was appointed Assistant Chief Constable in July 2018, having previously been Head of Cleveland & Durham (Police) Special Operations Unit.

Kerrin started her policing career in 1992 with Northumbria Police.  She did the bulk of her service with Cleveland Constabulary before moving to North Yorkshire Police on promotion to Chief Inspector and then joining Durham Constabulary in 2013 as a Superintendent.

Kerrin has a background in a variety of disciplines at all levels of her career from operational uniform, CID and specialist roles. This has included Head of Tasking & Co-ordinating Command (Media, Resourcing, Intelligence, Research & Analysis, Control Rooms); Safeguarding; Volume Crime; Diversity Unit; Local Area Command; Neighbourhood Policing, and serving on secondment to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as the Director for Training the Iraqi Police based in Baghdad.

Kerrin is responsible locally for Crime and Operations which includes the Force Control Room and Criminal Justice.  Kerrin is also the East Midlands Regional lead for Victims and Witnesses, ANPR and Roads Policing.

Kerrin has also undertaken regional and national responsibilities in the hostage negotiating world and has been deployed internationally in this capacity both on operational deployments and reviewing New South Wales Police effectiveness in a terrorist siege.

She is a keen advocate of the equality agenda, in particular supporting B.A.M.E & Women’s aspirations both within the police service and wider afield.

Since becoming a Chief Officer, Kerrin has taken on a number of National and Regional roles;

National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) Lead for Professionalising the Investigative Process (PIP); NPCC Lead for Progression and Leadership under the Race Religion and Belief portfolio; Police Steering Committee for Cumberland Lodge, a national charity working as a ‘think tank’ to encourage dialogue and debate for causes and effects of social division. Board Member for JUST Lincolnshire, a single equality organisation which aims to make a difference to the lives of people from all backgrounds by championing equality, tackling discrimination and celebrating the richly diverse makeup of the County.   Member of the Institute of Directors (IOD) as Ambassador for Criminal Justice and Policing. Kerrin is married, no children, a million god children, loves life, adventure, travel and music.

Chris joined Lincolnshire Police in 1997, having previously served as a volunteer cadet there between 1991 and 1994.

Chris has served his entire career in the county, both in uniform and as a detective, and more recently has been the Head of Crime, the C/Supt in charge of the East of the county as well as a secondment to Lincolnshire County Council as the Assistant Director for Public Protection. He is currently the Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing and Partnerships.

Chris holds joint honours in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Leeds, and an MSc in Leadership and Management from Warwick Business School.

Outside of work, Chris is a fervent follower of Wolverhampton Wanderers football club, an aficionado of heavy metal and is a ludologist.

Chris lives in the south of Lincolnshire with his wife and two sons.

Sharon is originally from Manchester and moved to Lincolnshire in 1992.

She graduated from Oxford with a degree in Chemistry and trained as a Chartered Accountant and qualified in 1994.

Since then, she has worked predominantly in the public sector, holding senior finance posts in the NHS, local authority and education sectors.

At the Radiotherapy Centre at Lincoln County Hospital, as Assistant Director of Finance, she took the finance lead on a project to secure £10M of Department of Health funding to transfer Radiotherapy to a new purpose-built facility at Lincoln County Hospital.

Sharon has worked on the merger of Lincoln, Boston and Grantham acute trusts to form the United Lincolnshire NHS Trust.  As a member of the Lincoln Executive team and the merger team, she was responsible for establishing the budgets for the merged organisation.

She has also been involved in a number of significant capital projects whilst at City of Lincoln Council providing financial advice from initial viability and funding, through to project completion and ongoing service consequences.