Sue Akers

Sue Akers, QPM, is a Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the British Metropolitan Police Service. As of 2011, she holds the post of Head of Organised Crime & Criminal Networks in the Specialist Crime Directorate within that force.[1]

She joined the force in 1976.[2]

She was promoted by the Metropolitan Police Authority from the rank of Chief Superintendent to Commander in 2004.[3]

She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2007.[2]

As of February 2011, she was leading Operation Weeting, the most recent British police investigation into allegations of phone hacking in the News of the World phone hacking affair.[4] In July 2011, as the result of documents submitted to Operation Weeting, she also took on the leadership of a related investigation, Operation Elveden.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Metropolitan Police Service - SCD - DAC Sue Akers QPM". Metropolitan Police Service. http://www.met.police.uk/scd/about/s_akers.htm. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
  2. ^ a b "SUE AKERS, QPM - COMMANDER - METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE". British Association for Women in Policing. http://bawp.org/assets/file/ACPO%20Akers.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
  3. ^ "MPA appoints new Metropolitan Police commanders". Metropolitan Police Authority. 4 November 2004. http://www.mpa.gov.uk/news/press/2004/04-078/. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
  4. ^ Rebecca Camber and Stephen Wright (10th February 2011). "Up to 3,000 may have been victims of phone hacking". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355333/Phone-hacking-Up-3-000-victims.html. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
  5. ^ "Met chief: phone-hacking documents point to 'inappropriate payments'". The Guardian. 6 July 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/met-chief-phone-hacking-payments. Retrieved 2011-07-07.