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Professor Sir Jon Murphy QPM DL LLB (Hons)
Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Advanced Police Studies
Sir Jon Murphy joined Merseyside Police as a Cadet in January 1975 serving in uniform and as a detective.
He left Merseyside Police to join the National Crime Squad as Assistant Chief Constable (Head of Operations) responsible for national and international serious organised crime operations, he led, for the UK, in the establishment of the first European Joint Investigation Team (JIT). He returned to Merseyside Police in 2004 as Deputy Chief Constable.
In September 2007 he was asked by the then Home Secretary to lead the Ministerial Task Force – ‘Tackling Gangs Action Programme’ (TGAP).
Following this, in April 2008, he became the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) National Serious & Organised Crime Coordinator where he led on a programme to deliver on work commissioned by the newly established National Organised Crime Partnership Board to establish regional organised crime capabilities – the ROCU network.
In February 2010 he was appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police. Sir Jon is an experienced Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), having led homicide investigations, internal corruption enquiries and covert operations. He has extensive experience of command of firearms operations and critical incidents.
He read Law at Liverpool University and has a postgraduate Criminology Diploma from Cambridge University. In 1995 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and spent six months working in the USA with the FBI and other policing agencies researching covert policing methods. For five years he was the Chair of the Crime Operations Business Area of National Police Chiefs Council.
Sir Jon has been commended for outstanding police work on 14 occasions and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 2007 Birthday Honours. In 2012 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Police Federation National Detective Forum and in 2013 he was voted Mersey Region Public Sector Leader of the Year.
He was knighted in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University in November 2014, an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Liverpool in 2016 and a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) the same year.
Sir Jon retired from the Police Service in July 2016 to take up the position of Professor of Advanced Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. He remains an advisor to the UK government on policing matters and has conducted a number of critical reviews including assessing the Security of the Palace of Westminster following the terrorist attack of March 2017.
Sir Jon was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant in 2017.
