Louisa Rolfe OBE

Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe's career in policing started in Avon and Somerset Police, where she rose from being a neighbourhood PC to becoming one of the country’s most senior female officers. During her 25 year career with Avon and Somerset Police, she led on development of a Regional Organised Crime Unit and Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit in the South West, a bi-force Major Crime Investigation Team, and a tri-force response to roads policing, firearms and dogs alongside Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Police forces. She is passionate about diversity and equality issues and, as Head of CID in Avon and Somerset, helped increase representation of women officers in top crime fighting posts. In the West Midlands she actively sponsored the development of a more diverse workforce AC Rolfe joined West Midlands Police as Deputy Chief Constable in February 2016. Her role with the force was to lead operational business and oversee the force’s WMP2020 innovation and change programme.