Assistant Chief Officer Alexis Poole

Alexis joined the Metropolitan Police as an Intelligence Analyst in 1999 having completed a law degree. Whilst in the Met she gained a Masters degree part time and worked on a knowledge sharing programme with the South African Police. Seeking an opportunity to develop her research skills she joined the Police Research Group at the Home Office in 2003 as a Senior Research Officer. She worked on many projects including the evaluation of the National Reassurance Policing Project.

In 2005 she joined Devon and Cornwall Police as Principal Intelligence Analyst. She then became Head of Performance and Analysis, leading on performance management, strategic intelligence analysis, public, victim and staff consultation, Internal inspection, planning, and risk management. She has led change programmes transforming support functions and approaches to responding to demand. She sat on the NPCC Performance Management Co-ordinating committee and was the NPCC representative for demand on the Home Office Technical Reference Group for the Funding Formula Review. In 2018 she completed the Strategic Command Course.

In December 2019 Alexis took up the post of Assistant Chief Officer – People, is a Non-Executive Director on the College of Policing Board and she is joint founder of the National Senior Police Staff Network.