Honours
| Ribbon | Description | Notes |
 | Knight Bachelor (Kt) |
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 | Queen's Police Medal (QPM) |
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 | Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal | |
 | Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal | |
Sir Hugh Norman Annesley QPM (born 22 June 1939) is a retired Irish/British police officer. He served as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from June 1989 to November 1996.
Annesley was born in Dublin and educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School and the Avoca School where he played for the field hockey team. [1] He joined the London Metropolitan Police as a constable in 1958. Rising through the ranks to chief superintendent in 1974, he attended the Special Course (1963), Intermediate Command Course (1971) and Senior Command Course (1975) at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, before transferring to Sussex Police as Assistant Chief Constable (Personnel & Operations) in 1976. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1980 and the following year returned to the Metropolitan Police as Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Central & North West London). In 1983 he became Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Personnel) and in 1984 was director of the Force Re-organisation Team. [ citation needed ]
Under the new organisational structure, in April 1985 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner Personnel and Training (ACPT) [2] and in 1987 became Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations (ACSO). In 1986 he had graduated from the FBI National Executive Institute in the United States. In 1989 he took up command of the RUC, despite the post being widely expected to go to Geoffrey Dear, [3] and held the post until his retirement in 1996. [ citation needed ]
Annesley was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 1986 New Year Honours [4] and was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. [5]
| Ribbon | Description | Notes |
| | Knight Bachelor (Kt) |
|
| | Queen's Police Medal (QPM) |
|
| | Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal | |
| | Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal | |
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Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman was a senior British police officer. He was Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) from 1976 to 1980, and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1982 to 1987. He is best known for initiating a major reform and restructure of the Metropolitan Police during his tenure as Commissioner and for seeing the RUC replace the British Army as the dominant security force in Northern Ireland during his tenure as Chief Constable.
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