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40 of our officers are currently out with the Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay, running every step of the way alongside the baton and inspirational baton bearers. It’s West Midlands Police’s job to keep both the baton and bearers safe as they take the baton to every region of the country in the lead up …

The Commonwealth for Everyone series continues with DS Andrew Padmore DS Padmore works for Force CID He lived in the Caribbean, Zambia and South Africa during his childhood Detective Sergeant Andrew Padmore has a longstanding career within WMP and currently works for Force CID. Before moving back to the UK permanently, he spent just over …

The force has recruited 40 officers to protect the Queen’s Baton The protection team includes officers from our regional forces The Queen’s Baton Relay will start it’s final leg in the UK in July As Birmingham 2022 launch their campaign to recruit 2,022 baton bearers, WMP have recruited our 40 officers to protect them. After an …

Looking back on this year, my first thought is how proud of am. We have a team of people working on delivering a safe and secure Birmingham 2022 who are extremely committed and passionate about the work they do and that shows in the work that’s been carried out this year and excellent plans we …

Inspector Noeleen Murrin is one of our counter terrorism security coordinators and she will be heading up a team of people who will be working to keep everyone safe at Edgbaston stadium and the University of Birmingham for next year’s Commonwealth Games.

Meet Mark Watkins, the force lead for traffic planning for next year’s Commonwealth Games. Here he talks about how we’re working with partners to look after our communities during Birmingham 2022.

This week we are marking a year to go to the start of the Birmingham 2022 Commmonwealth Games Chief Superintendent David Sturman is Head of our CW Games planning team Here he reflects on his career and the career highlight of leading our Games operation The Commonwealth Games will be a huge occasion and will …