Mr Brian Humphreys

Brian Humphreys is a retired senior police officer resident with his wife in Worcestershire. They have two daughters and four grandchildren living nearby.

He spent most of his service in the Criminal Investigation and Operations Departments and was trained as a ‘hostage negotiator’. Having been a Detective Chief Inspector, head of the Criminal Investigation Departments of the Malvern and Worcester Divisions, then head of Operations and a Detective Superintendent, based at West Mercia Force Headquarters, he became the Sub Divisional Commander at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire from where, on promotion to Chief Superintendent, he undertook a two year secondment to the Home Office, as Assistant to Sir John Woodcock, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary.

At the conclusion of his secondment, he was appointed the Redditch Divisional Commander, then Head of the Traffic and Operations Division. After 34 years in the Police Service and when head of the Operations Department, he retired in 1994 to form his own business and became involved in the project management of the first computerised ‘Automatic Fingerprint Identification Service’ (AFIS) in England and Wales. Following its successful conclusion, he took part in an Interpol project introducing AFIS as a ‘Proof of Concept’ throughout the inhabited Caribbean Islands. (Someone had to go!)

At the conclusion of the project and running a successful Private Investigator’s business, he formed a business association on a troubled industrial estate and became the manager of a large Secondary School in Worcester.

When fully retired, he launched into a hobby of local and family history, including researching those from his village, who had fallen in World War 1. This resulted in him writing his own family history books and a ‘My Family Hero’ story published in the ‘Who do you think you are’ magazine. He also wrote three local history books for consumption within his village.

On the discovery that his wife, Josephine’s grandmother, being a descendant of the O’Connor family, he spent several years researching the family which resulted in this book on Luke and another book, dealing with his siblings who settled in America.

He continues to play golf, bowls, croquet and table tennis and says that he watches too much rugby.