Mark Rowley
Sir Mark Peter Rowley QPM (/ˈroʊli/; born November 1964[1]) is a British senior police officer who has been the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis since September 2022.[2]
Not to be confused with Mark Rowley (actor) or Mark Rowley (rugby union).
Sir Mark Rowley
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November 1964 (age 59)
He was the Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police Service and the concurrent Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council Counter-Terrorism Coordination Committee and National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing.[3][4] He was previously Chief Constable of Surrey Police (2009–2011), and also served as Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police between February 2017 and April 2017. He retired from the police in March 2018.[5]
In July 2022, it was announced that he would return to policing in the role of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, replacing former Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick.[6] He was sworn in as Commissioner on 12 September 2022.[7]
Early life[edit]
Rowley was educated at Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, an all boys state grammar school in Handsworth, Birmingham.[8] In 1983, he matriculated into St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Having studied mathematics,[9] he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1986.[10]
