Chief Constable of the Criminal Investigation Department (1922-1929)
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire King's Police Medal Queen's Police Diamond Jubilee Medal Edward VII Police Coronation Medal[1]
Frederick Porter WensleyOBE KPM (28 March 1865 – 4 December 1949) served as a British police officer from 1888 until 1929, reaching the rank of chief constable of the Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Serving in Whitechapel for part of his career, he was involved in street patrols during the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders,[2] details of which he would later publish in his memoirs in 1931.[3][4] He was one of the 'Big Four', a nickname given to the four Superintendents in charge of the Metropolitan Police CID, with his murder investigations regularly published in the press.[5] The leading prosecuting barrister Sir Richard Muir referred to him as "the greatest detective of all time".[1]
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^Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection. Timeline:1919 Retrieved 16 January 2020
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she enjoyed the confidence of the chief constable of the CID, Frederick Porter Wensley, until his retirement in 1929. Wyles was instrumental in making...
Associated Press. Retrieved 15 January 2017. Kalman 2014, p. 75. Clarkson, Wensley (2021). Serial Killers of Russia: Case Files from the World's Deadliest...
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Chief Constable (CID), Metropolitan Police 1918–1919 Succeeded by Frederick Porter Wensley 1924–1929 Preceded by First incumbent Deputy Assistant Commissioner...
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