built base near Melksham in June 2018. Tri-Force Specialist Operations Unit Between 2013 and 2019, a collaboration with the Avon & Somerset and Gloucestershire forces covered roads policing, firearms and police dogs. Chief constables 18391870 Captain Samuel Meredith RN 18701908 Captain Robert Sterne RN 19081943 Colonel Sir Höel Llewellyn 19431946 W.T. Brooks (acting chief constable) 19461963 Lt Colonel Harold Golden 19631979 George Robert Glendinning 19791983 Kenneth Mayer 19831988 Donald Smith 19881997 Walter Girven 19972004 Dame Elizabeth Neville 20042007 Martin Richards 20082012 Brian Moore 20122013 Patrick Geenty (temporary chief constable) 20132015 Patrick Geenty 20152018 Mike Veale 2018–2023 Kier Pritchard 2023– Catherine Roper Deputy chief constables 2018present Paul Mills Officers killed in the line of duty The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Wiltshire Police have died during the course of their duties: PC Daniel John Cooper, 2010 (road traffic accident) Sergeant Michael Ivor Tucker, 1991 (heart attack during firearms training) PC John Lewis Marsh, 1989 (collapsed and died after struggling to arrest a suspect) DC Mark Herbert, 1987 (road traffic accident) PC Desmond Derrick Kellam, 1979 (attacked by a suspect) PC Philip Stephen Russell, 1978 (road traffic accident) PC Leonard Alan Harding, 1977 (road traffic accident) PC Robert Edward Cray, 1973 (struck by car) PC Colin D. R. Hayward, 1968 (road traffic accident) PC Cedric A. Hemming, 1968 (struck by car) PC Maurice William Foord, 1961 (struck by car) Chief Inspector Edmund Richard Norris, 1955 (road traffic accident) War Reserve Constable Albert William Newman, 1942 (shot) Inspector Albert Enos Mitchell (road traffic accident) PC Henry G. Tanner, 1931 (road traffic accident) PC Frank Gray, 1929 (road traffic accident) Sergeant William Frank Crouch, 1913 (shot) Superintendent Frederick Bull, 1892 (fatally injured while riding horse) Sergeant Enos Molden, 1892 (shot) PC Andrew Albert Reuben Hancock, 1875 (attacked during a disturbance) Governance , the Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is Philip Wilkinson. The police and crime commissioner is scrutinised by the Wiltshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the local authorities in the police area. Before the first PCC was elected in 2012, the force was under the local oversight of the Wiltshire Police Authority. The police authority had nine