Cressida Dick

Cressida Dick CBE QPM
Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Operations
In office July 2011 – January 2015
Preceded by	John Yates
Succeeded by	Mark Rowley
Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
In office November 2011 – 23 January 2012
Preceded by	Tim Godwin
Succeeded by	Craig Mackey
Personal details
Born	1960 Oxford, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Profession	Civil Servant
Portfolio	Specialist Operations

Cressida Rose Dick, CBE, QPM (born 1960) is a Director-general at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Previously she was a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police in London. Dick was once the most senior female police officer in Britain. Dick served as acting deputy commissioner in the interim between Deputy Commissioner Tim Godwin's retirement and his permanent successor, Craig Mackey, taking office at the end of January 2012.

Before 2005, Dick attracted little media attention, but became well known as having been the officer in command of the operation which led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. In June 2009, she was promoted to the rank of assistant commissioner, the first woman to hold this rank substantively. She holds the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service.

Cressida Dick is the third and youngest child of Cecilia Dick (née Buxton), an Oxford historian, and Marcus William Dick, Senior Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She was born and raised in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School (Oxford), Oxford High School, and Balliol College, Oxford. Before joining the police, she worked in a large accountancy firm.

In 1983, Dick joined the Metropolitan Police as a constable. In 1993, she joined the accelerated promotion course at Bramshill Police College, and in 1995, transferred to Thames Valley Police as a superintendent. She was operations superintendent at Oxford, and later, served as area commander in Oxford for three years. In 2000, she completed the strategic command course and, in 2001, she was awarded an M.Phil in criminology from the University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College), graduating with the highest grade in her class.

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