In 1988 he was promoted and posted to Welwyn Garden City as a patrol Sergeant before returning to Watford in 1990 as a patrol and custody sergeant.
Promotion to Inspector followed in 1995, when he was posted to Dacorum as a Duty Officer in uniform.
After a brief period in the complaints department, he was promoted to Chief Inspector for Watford and Three Rivers with responsibility for uniform services and neighbourhood policing. In 2003 he became a Superintendent based at Police Headquarters and moved to Central Area as the Deputy Area Commander in 2004. From April 2007 until June 2009 he was the Head of Professional Standards for the force before returning to the Western Area Command Team.
This posting is a real privilege for me as I have returned to where I started my career as a Constable 29 years ago.
The Western Area of Watford, Three Rivers and Dacorum is a busy, interesting and rewarding area to police.
Our job is to prevent crime, nuisance behaviour and disorder and to detect crime, and we do this well but we can make it even better.
We cannot be complacent and there is always room for improvement. I am ensuring that we are working towards ways where this can happen.
Working with our partner agencies has also ensured that crime has fallen over the last four years and I want to keep it that way. I appreciate that we can never be totally crime free but we are getting better at how we deal with the issues that face us.
The fear of crime is something that is always of concern to us and I want to reassure the public as much as we possibly can that we will listen to them and will respond to their concerns.
We have more resources and technology at our disposable now to catch criminals and to protect people.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) can tell if a car is insured, has a valid MOT and road tax and, if not, we can seize it on the road. Advances in technology like this greatly assist us with fighting crime and removing unroadworthy vehicles from our roads.
I want to ensure that the people of West Hertfordshire are getting the best they can from us as a police service. We have a clear job to do and I am going to ensure that we can continue to deliver this.
I am very much looking forward to continuing to work on the Western Area and helping to continue to deliver policing of a high standard to the people of Watford, Three Rivers and Dacorum.
The West of Hertfordshire is a safe place in which to live, work and visit. My aim is to make it even safer.
The Western Area Commander can be contacted by post:
Temporary Chief Superintendent Iain McVie
Western Area Commander
Watford Police Station
Shady Lane
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD17 1DD
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