Nick Adderley
Chief Constable of
Northamptonshire Police
In office
6 August 2018 - Incumbent
Home SecretarySajid Javid
Priti Patel
Suella Braverman
Grant Shapps
Suella Braverman
James Cleverly
CommissionerStephen Mold
Preceded bySimon Edens
Personal details
Born1966 (age 57–58)
NationalityBritish
Children2[1]

Nick Adderley (born 20 September 1966) is a senior British police officer, who is Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police.

Career

Adderley grew up in New Moston, Manchester, and joined the Royal Navy in October 1984 serving as both a cadet and regular service. Adderley can be seen in an uploaded video at 33:15 from the October 1984 passing out parade at HMS Raleigh [2] Adderley was discharged after being deemed unsuitable for life in the service in 1986. [3]

Hooton Arms licensee register

After several other jobs including working as an estate agent for Fairclough Homes and then as the landlord and Licensee of The Hooton Arms in Birkenhead between June 1989 to July 1990 [4] he then joined Cheshire Constabulary[5][6] in 1992 at the age of 25 as a police constable falsely claiming to have served over 10 years in the Navy.[7] Despite this demonstrable fraud of omitting his time as a pub landlord never being checked by Cheshire Constabulary, he worked his way up to the rank of superintendent.

Peter Fahy took over from outgoing Chief Constable Nigel Burgess in December 2002 / January 2003 [8] Shortly after this appointment, he approached Adderley, requesting him to be his staff officer. Adderley accepted this role with a promotion to Inspector where he confirms he carried out this role for 2 years. Working under his tutelage at GMP, Adderley referred to him as a mentor.

He then took a break from the Police Service but has claimed to have worked in the public sector work in the Home Office for 2 years at the Police Standards Unit on secondment as a Chief Inspector, before then returning Cheshire Constabulary at the same role.[9] Records show Adderley was serving as a Chief Inspector in August 2006 [5] Adderley has frequently lied and fabricated his involvement in events, including his own age and dates events took place, making it difficult to determine which of his statements are accurate. He specifically claims that his secondment at The Home Office was in 2002 during the time of the Soham murders reporting into the then Home Secretary Sir David Blunkett leading the investigation into how killer Ian Huntley was not correctly vetted. [9] The Government Document "Penalty Notices For Disorder" however is dated February 2006, and this shows Adderley with a Home Office email address at this time.

He later transferred to the GMP, where was promoted to Chief Superintendent in August 2011.[10][11][12] In September 2013, he became the territorial commander of the North Manchester Division;[13] keeping the same rank.

In 2015 he was promoted to Assistant Chief Constable at Staffordshire Police after completing his Strategic Command Course.[14][15]

Chief Constable

As of 6 August 2018, Adderley became Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police.[16][17]

He is also the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) National Lead for Disclosure and Safeguarding as well as Motorcycling and Criminal Use of Motorcycles.[18] Adderley has recently taken on the role of NPCC lead for police aviation.

In 2019 Adderley was involved in the investigation of the death of Harry Dunn in a motor-cycle crash, where a suspect, the wife of a U.S. intelligence officer, claimed diplomatic immunity and left the United Kingdom. Adderley tweeted adversely on the parents decision to sue the suspect in the U.S. civil courts, prompting the parents to call on Adderley to resign. The parents referred Northamptonshire Police to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold spoke to Adderley about the tweet and said that the force's communications should "remain professional and sensitive".[19][20]

In April 2020, Adderley was rebuked by Home Secretary Priti Patel after controversial comments regarding his department's response to COVID-19 received wide media attention. He had stated at a press conference that while his police would not, "at this stage, start to marshal supermarkets and [check] the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it's a legitimate necessary item", that if people did not heed his warnings, "we will start to do that". Patel declared that his comments had been "inappropriate". Adderley subsequently backed away from the threatened policing shift.[21][22]

In February 2023 Adderley temporarily retired from Northamptonshire Police due to return in April 2023. This was due to pension arrangements limiting the tenability of continuing in the role without the break.[23] Adderley was suspended on 16th October 2023 as part of a gross misconduct investigation, overseen by the IOPC.[24]

Honours


RibbonDescriptionNotes
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
  • 2002
  • UK Version of this Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
  • 2012
  • UK Version of this Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal
  • 2022
  • UK Version of this Medal
King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • 2023
  • UK Version of this Medal
Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

Controversy

On 29 September 2023 it was reported in the British media that Adderley had been wearing two campaign medals which he was not entitled to: the South Atlantic Medal for the Falklands War and the General Service Medal with Northern Ireland clasp. This was despite Adderley himself being only 15 years old at the Falklands War. A complaint was made to the office of the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, who in turn referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for their attention. The explanation that Adderley provided was that they had been given to him by his brothers' to wear. In response to the complaint, he "immediately took advice last week regarding the protocol and have changed the side of [his] chest on which these medals are worn."[25][26]

Despite claiming to have been gifted the Falklands Medal by his older brother Rick Adderley when he moved to Australia in 2013 to work for Queensland Police, Nick Adderley can be seen in pictures on the official GMP Flickr account wearing the medal at the funeral of murdered colleagues in 2012, raising doubts over his statement.[27]

Media inaccuracies

Since the investigation to his war medals and career fraud, various historic press articles have been re-examined where Adderley mislead journalists about his military background and career history, in some cases making recorded statements that were false or never attempting to correct these articles he knew to be false when they went to print.

On 11th August 2011 The Manchester Evening News published an article by Stuart Greer, reporting how Adderley joined the Navy at 16, was a naval officer and quoted his experience as over 10 years the naval engineer rose up the ranks to lieutenant, serving on HMS Invincible, Hermes and Anglesey, during which he saw conflict in Haiti during the civil uprising of 1984.[28] The Hermes was decommissioned on 12th April 1984 [29] a full 6 months before Adderley joined The Royal Navy.

On 15th June 2013 The Manchester Evening News published an article by John Scheerhout about Nick Adderley wanting to resign. The article quoted Adderley as being a former Lieutenant within the Royal Navy. [30] Adderley was only ever a Rating and never reached any officer rank.

In July 2013 Police Oracle published an article regarding the murder of two female Police officers in 2012. In this article Adderley was directly quoted as saying "My experience of serving in the Armed Force and the Falklands conflict helped me in dealing with this" [31] Adderley never served in The Falklands conflict.

In 2013 John Scheerhout published his book Lured to Their Deaths: Caging a Killer, where he interviewed Adderley and published the following statement "He had served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Navy for 10 years. He had seen colleagues die in the Falklands conflict. But this was different, somehow harder to take." Adderley was also directly quoted as saying "I was in the armed forces and experienced loss of life in active service, but this was completely different." [32] Adderley was still in school during The Falklands conflict and never saw any conflict nor any colleagues killed before being discharged in 1986.

On 15th November 2013 The Manchester Evening News published an article by John Scheerhout about Nick Adderley taking over the North Manchester division. The article quoted how Adderley had served 10 years in the Navy and the Falklands conflict before joining the Police. [33] Adderley never served in The Falklands conflict and spent less than 2 years in the Navy.

On 6th March 2014, Adderley attended the BSIA's Manchester Security event at The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS. He stood up on stage and gave a speech, during which he claimed to have previously been a "senior leader" within the Royal Navy, implying the rank of Captain or above.[34] Adderley was a Gunner and never reached the rank of officer, much less senior leader.

On 18th November 2015 The Manchester Evening News published an article by Paul Britton, reporting again how Adderley joined the Royal Navy as a 16-year-old and served for 10 years before becoming a police officer in 1992 [35] Adderley joined in October 1984 when he was 18.

On 20th June 2018 Police Professional reported how Mr Adderley's decision to join the police service in 1992 followed a ten-year career in the Royal Navy.[36]

On 5th September 2018 Blueline Jobs published an interview with Nick Adderley where they reported him as a Royal Navy veteran, who served in the Falklands war [37]

In August 2020 Police Oracle conducted an interview with Nick Adderley, their published article contained the statement how CC Adderley is enthusiastic now as when he joined the Cheshire Constabulary in 1992 after being in the Royal Navy for ten years during which time he served in the Falklands War.[38] In December 2023 Police Oracle, run by Red Snapper Media, engaged in a purge of all articles with Adderley in them that they had failed to fact check. Archive copies of the articles are still available for public view to highlight the failures by Police Oracle to fact check any details provided by Adderley in interviews. [39]

On 16th June 2021 Adderley gave an audio interview for the podcast Tango Juliet Foxtrot. In this interview he claims to have applied to join Cheshire Constabulary as he was leaving the Royal Navy in February 1992 and how he was 28 at the time.[9] Being born in September 1966 would make Adderley only 25 in February 1992. Holding the licensee appointment for The Hooton Arms between 1989 - 1990 some 2 years prior to 1992 contradict that he was still in the Royal Navy at the time of applying to the Police in 1991/1992.

Inspector Nick Adderley's letter dated 20th May 2004 showing his role and rank as staff officer to Peter Fahy at this time

Adderley also claimed on the same podcast interview at 18.15 to have been on secondment to The Home Office as a Chief Inspector in 2002 during the Soham murders, leading the investigation into vetting failures of Ian Huntley and reporting into and have private 1-2-1 meetings with the then Home Secretary David Blunkett.[9] Adderley confirms on the podcast at 16.55 that he only achieved a promotion to Inspector when Peter Fahy took office as Chief Constable and made Adderley his staff officer for 2 years prior to Adderley applying for a secondment to The Home Office.[9] Peter Fahy did not take the role of Chief Constable until January 2003, bringing Adderley's 2 years service to around January 2005. David Blunkett had left the role of Home Secretary in 2004, making it impossible for Adderley to have ever reported into David Blunkett, much less worked under him during the Soham murders or Bichard inquiry in 2002 as he claims.

A letter from Adderley dated May 2004, shows his role as staff officer to the current Chief Constable Peter Fahy, and his rank of Inspector, making it impossible for his secondment at The Home Office as a Chief Inspector to have been in 2002.

On 6th June 2023 The Telegraph wrote an article in which they referred to Adderley's Navy career quoting "Mr Adderley, a former Lieutenant with the Royal Navy" [40] Adderley was only ever a Rating and never reached any officer rank.

Telltale Tic

Nick Adderley has a very noticeable tic when making verbal statements he knows to be untrue. He has the habit of repeating a statement woven into the lie that have some degree of truth, immediately before or after making a false statement. Examples of this include claiming to be a senior leader in the Royal Navy in 2014, repeating the 23 years service, and at 7:25 and 9:17 on a podcast in 2021, repeating the date he joined the police in 1992 before claiming he was 28 and applying while still in the Navy, and how it was during his formative years as a late joiner, before claiming he was 28 when joining.[34][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Nick Adderley Biography". Northamptonshire County Council. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Royal Navy HMS Raleigh 1984 Drake43 passing out parade, retrieved 9 December 2023
  3. ↑ "Nick Adderley: Doubts over chief constable's navy record". BBC News. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Nick Adderley: Doubts over chief constable's navy record". BBC News. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Database to hit bogus calls". Crewe Chronicle. Reach PLC. 11 August 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Police give out warning to troublemaking party-goers". CheshireLive. Reach PLC. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Document 02 Northamptonshire Police and Crime Panel 05 July 2018 Confirmation Hearing Agenda Pack". www.westnorthants.gov.uk. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "County's top cop hangs up truncheon after 39 years' service". Warrington Guardian. 13 December 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Development, PodBean. "Episode 12: Interview with Nick Adderley, Chief Constable of Northamptonshire | Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast". tangjulietbravo.podbean.com. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "Hundreds pay tribute to murdered officers". The Times. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  11. ↑ Lewis, Jamie (27 May 2012). "Manchester police make four arrests after man is shot dead in pub". Independent. Archived from the original on 19 June 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  12. ↑ Keeling, Neal (30 September 2014). "Police chief pledges review into poor response to attempted child abduction call". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  13. ↑ Keeling, Neal (25 January 2014). "Axe to fall on more top police posts". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
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  19. ↑ Davies, Gareth (31 October 2019). "British police interview Anne Sacoolas over death of Harry Dunn". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  20. ↑ Dowd, Lisa (31 October 2019). "Harry Dunn: Chief constable criticised for 'sad but predictable' tweet". Sky News. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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  25. ↑ Boffey, Daniel (29 September 2023). "Police chief investigated over wearing Falklands medal despite being 15 at time of war". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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  30. ↑ Scheerhout, John (15 June 2013). "Top police officer tells how failure to protect his officers from Dale Cregan made him question his role". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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  33. ↑ Scheerhout, John (15 November 2013). "Local lad to take over Greater Manchester Police's toughest beat". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  34. 1 2 Nick Adderley in Manchester 2014 claiming to have been a "senior leader" within the Royal Navy., retrieved 3 December 2023
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