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This week marks a year to go till Birmingham 2022. We are celebrating this milestone by making this site live which will be a hub for all things WMP Commonwealth Games over the next year. We will be sharing lots of information about the fantastic work that is going on behind the scenes to deliver …

Inspector Johanna Comer 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 the NEC in Birmingham for next year’s Games.

Inspector Dan Lowe is the force specialist lead for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. In this video he talks about how we will be using drones as an important part of the security operation to give us that all important ‘birds eye view’

Our engagement team have been busy out and about in recent weeks visiting schools that are local to Games venues to talk about Birmingham 2022 and all the work going in to planning the security for the event. The team were joined by the force drones team who showed the school children some of the …

We’re delighted to introduce our new Commonwealth Games litter of super cute cocker spaniels, named by you! We recently took to social media to ask you to vote on suggested names for our latest litter of cocker spaniels, who were born last month. We were amazed at the response with you voting in your thousands …

August 2019 West Midlands Police has taken another step on its journey to helping deliver the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games by ‘breaking ground’ at a new force Event Control Suite in Birmingham. The new state of the art Event/Force Control Suite and Firearms Operations Unit base is scheduled to be completed by the end of …