showing the force as the 'worst in England & Wales'. Chief constables Chief constables were: Nottingham City / Borough of Nottingham Police 18141833 Richard Birth 1833? William Barnes 18601865 Joseph Hedington 18651869 John Freeman (former chief constable of Plymouth) 18691872 Captain F. Parry 18721881 Major William Henry Poyntz (appointed chief constable of Essex) 18811892 Samuel Stevens (former chief constable of Rochdale) 18921912 Phillip Stephen Clay (former chief constable of Southampton) 19121930 Lt. Col. F. Lemon 19301959 Captain Athelstan Popkess 19601968 Thomas Moore In 1968, Nottingham City Police merged with Nottinghamshire Constabulary Nottinghamshire County Constabulary 1852 Peter Valetine Hatton (dismissed for inefficiency) 18521856 Captain John Henry Forrest (later appointed chief constable of Hampshire) 18561892 Captain Henry Holden 18921922 Captain Sir William Hugh Tomasson 19491970 John Edward Stevenson Browne 19701976 Rex Fletcher 19761987 Charles McLachlan 19871990 Sir Ronald Hadfield (knighted in 1995 Birthday Honours) 19901995 Sir Dan Crompton 19952000 Colin Bailey 20002008 Steven Green 20082012 Julia Hodson 20122016 Chris Eyre 20162017 Susannah Fish (acting chief constable ) 20172022 Craig Guildford 2022present Kate Meynell Officers killed in the line of duty The Police Memorial Trust lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty, and since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Nottinghamshire Police are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime, since the turn of the 20th century: Sergeant Ernest Crowston, 1921 (fatally injured attempting to stop a speeding vehicle) PC Raymond Free, 1950 (collapsed after attending a domestic disturbance) PC Stephen Atkinson 1977 (Fatally injured in an accident when hit by a car while on point duty) PC Christopher John MacDonald, 1978 (beaten and drowned by burglar) PC Gerald Walker, 2003 (fatally injured when dragged by a stolen vehicle) Divisional structure In April 2018, the force restructured under chief constable Craig Guildford, and moved to a local policing model. Response teams moved back in alignment with local authority areas and local council boundaries. The force was then split into two response divisions: North (Bassetlaw, Newark & Sherwood, Mansfield, Ashfield, Gedling, City North) South (City Central, City south, Broxtowe Borough, Rushcliffe Borough). As part of the restructure, the organisation moved response teams back locally, increasing the number of response bases from nine to 20. Each Division was managed by a Demand Management Inspector (DMI) who is responsible