District, non-district, and branch commanders

Mark joined Greater Manchester Police in 1999 and spent the first years of his career working on the City of Manchester; based at Longsight and Greenheys police stations.

Following a two-year stint with Humberside Police from 2002 to 2004, he returned to GMP and worked in a wide range of roles including event planning, performance management and neighbourhood policing.

Mark has a wealth of experience in Specialist Operations and is a qualified firearms, CBRN and public order commander. His more recent roles have seen him work as Superintendent for Central Manchester and a secondment to Counter Terrorism Policing HQ.

Neil began his career in Oldham 2002 and has taken on a variety of roles, including covert policing roles regionally, nationally, and internationally before returning to GMP to take the lead on Operation Vulcan – the world-renowned problem-solving initiative that tackled north Manchester’s ‘counterfeit street’ and help drastically reduce violence and exploitation in the area.

Danny joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and has served with the force throughout his policing career.

He started his career at Grey Mare Lane, covering the North Manchester area and has worked in a variety of detective and uniformed policing roles at different ranks; including economic and cyber crime.

Upon promotion to superintendent, Danny was based on the Oldham District before he moved back to a detective role as Head of GMP's Serious and Organised Crime Group.

Lewis has 21 years’ service, the majority of which has been spent in Crime and Intelligence roles at both district and force level. In 2022 he was appointed as Crime and Vulnerability lead for Bury district before returning to the Serious Crime Division where he has helped achieve justice for victims across multiple complex operations for GMP.

The City of Manchester is led by Temporary Chief Superintendent David Meeney who took up this role in May 2024 after rejoining on the CoM in February 2022 where he has been the Detective Superintendent for the CoM Central.

David began his career in GMP in 2006 after obtaining a LLB with Honours in Law. He was posted to the Neighbourhood Policing Team at Moss Side and Hulme before moving into the CID at Longsight in 2009. His career then progressed into a number of roles in the Serious Crime Division and he was seconded to the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit for 2 ½ years before rejoining the City of Manchester in 2022.

Helen started her career in Tameside in 2003. She has worked in a number of branch roles across Force Intelligence and the Serious Crime Division, including economic and cyber-crime. In the last four years she has worked as a Superintendent, she has led teams across the City of Manchester and Stockport.

Kirsty began her career at Collyhurst Police Station in 2005 and has worked a variety of roles at GMP since. Having a background in vulnerability and partnership working she was posted as Detective Chief Inspector to the Challenger Partnership and later the Serious Organised Crime Group, and most recently she was the Director of Intelligence for GMP.

Chief Superintendent Clare Jenkins currently oversees the Wigan and Leigh District.

Chris began his policing career in 2003 in South Yorkshire where he received the national bravery award. He joined GMP in 2021 where he continued his public order journey and assumed the lead for Operation Castle which has led the way in significantly reducing burglaries across Greater Manchester with GMP committed to attending every household burglary.

Sarah is the Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West (CTPNW) and has been in this role since December 2022.  She has 22 years’ service in policing and has previously spent 4 years working in the UK CT network mainly within the intelligence arena and the last 3 years back in her home force of Merseyside working in fields such as covert authorities and reducing reoffending. Her current role at CTPNW involves responsibility for managing the threat and risk from terrorism on behalf of the 5 territorial police forces of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria and Cheshire whilst also providing support to the Isle of Man.

Emma started with Greater Manchester Police in 1994.

She has worked in a variety of neighbourhood policing roles in districts across Greater Manchester which culminated with her appointment as District Superintendent for Stockport.

Emma is a qualified tactical firearms commander, although since 2019, Emma has been on secondment with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; returning to GMP for a short period in 2020 to work with the Health & Safety team during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Neil joined GMP in 2003 and has served across numerous challenging and diverse roles over the last 20 years including Response and Neighbourhood Policing, CID, Intelligence and Fraud and was the regional cyber threat lead from 2019 to 2022.

As the Head of Public Protection he has strategic responsibility for the Force’s approach to safeguarding and vulnerability including Child Protection and Domestic Abuse, and operational responsibility for leading the Sex Offender Management Unit and Online Child Abuse Investigation Teams.

As an experienced Senior Investigating Officer and a nationally accredited Kidnap & Extortion Manager, Neil has honed his skills in crisis management and decision-making, providing strategic direction to countless serious and complex investigations.  His career highlights to date include leading the Intelligence & Consequence Management Cell during the trial of Dale Cregan, establishing the Organised Crime Coordination Unit under Programme Challenger and founding the North West Cyber Resilience Centre - a pioneering not-for-profit police, public and academic sector partnership, which has now been scaled nationally.

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Jo qualified as a solicitor in 2004; joining GMP in 2006 initially as a Solicitor in the Operational Policing team.  She moved to the Civil Litigation Unit in 2010 as a Senior Solicitor handling a range of claims presented against the Force. 

She then left GMP in 2012 to move to Hill Dickinson LLP as a Senior Associate, before joining Lancashire Police as Head of Legal Services in May 2017.  Jo re-joined GMP in April 2022 as Branch Head.  

Jo has advised and represented a diverse range of clients during her career and has handled several high profile and stated cases for both GMP and Lancashire Police. 

Steph joined Greater Manchester Police in 2008, starting her policing career in the Information Services Branch. She has worked in a variety of roles across Information Technology and Information Management and was appointed as Head of Information Management Branch in 2022.

Prior to working for Greater Manchester Police, Steph worked in the education sector and is a qualified Data Protection Practitioner.

Steph is passionate about the value of information across policing and beyond, and is a strong advocate for upholding individuals information rights.

Sharon has over 20 years service with GMP. She joined GMP in 2002 from the Manchester Airport Group where she previously held a senior managerial role.

As the Branch Head in charge of Business Support Services, she has responsibility for Fleet, Logistics and Uniform; Estates, Facilities Management, Design and Print and the Admin Hub; and, Procurement together with Account Payable and Receivable.