Assistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, Local Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice.
Accountable to the Deputy Chief Constable, Mark is responsible for Local Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice and is the Regional ACC lead for Children and Young Persons, and chairs the SW Region Cyber and Fraud Strategic Governance Group.
Mark started his policing career in Greater Manchester. He worked in a variety of roles across uniform, neighbourhoods, investigations, and covert policing. In 2006, Mark transferred to Dorset where he has worked within patrol and investigations. As Inspector, Chief Inspector and Superintendent he has undertaken roles within the Chief Officer team, Force Command Centre, intelligence directorate, serious and complex investigations teams, proactive policing teams & serious and organised crime.
Mark later took up the role as Detective Chief Superintendent – Commander of Crime & Criminal Justice, where he had responsibility for serious and complex investigation teams, major crime investigation, cybercrime, public protection, volume and Serious Acquisitive crime teams, intelligence, custody, and criminal justice. He also led on several business cases across the strategic alliance with Devon and Cornwall.
Mark took up the role of Territorial Policing Commander on 27th May 2018 and has since carried out temporary Assistant Chief Constable roles for operations, local policing, crime and criminal justice, people, transformation, strategic partnerships, and a national transforming forensics programme. Mark later returned as the local policing area commander for BCP, where he delivered on the introduction of local policing areas under the new Force operating model. In 2023 Mark was promoted to ACC.
Mark is proud to be a police officer and is committed to delivering for the public, being tough on those who commit crime, and ensuring the wellbeing of officers and staff. He also believes that partnership collaboration & adopting a public health approach is key to building resilient communities and preventing crime
Mark is a specialist strategic firearms commander, gold public order commander, multi-agency gold incident commander and has a MSt in Police Leadership and Management.
Mark is married and has two children.