New Year Honours 2026: The King’s Police Medal (accessible)
Published 29 December 2025
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Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace
London SW1
30 December 2025
The King has been graciously pleased to approve the award of The King’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service to the undermentioned:
King’s Police Medal (KPM)
England and Wales
- Adesola Monsuru Adelekan, M.V.O., Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
- Paul Brogden, Commander, Metropolitan Police Service
- Robert John Carden, Chief Constable, Merseyside Police
- Jonathan Miles Chadwick, Detective Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police
- Jason Leigh Diamond, Temporary Inspector, North Wales Police
- Andrew Huddleston, lately, Superintendent, Northumbria Police
- Justine Keely Jenkins, lately, Detective Inspector, Hertfordshire Police
- Richard John Munns, lately, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service
- Mark Royston Plant, lately, Detective Constable, West Midlands Police
- Samantha Rennison, Chief Superintendent, Northumbria Police
- Daniel Hugh Frisby Richards, lately, Chief Superintendent, South Wales Police
- Kevin Mark Southworth, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service
- Sian Louise Thomas, Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service
- Mark Steven Travis, lately, Assistant Chief Constable, South Wales Police
- Heather Millicent Whoriskey, Detective Chief Superintendent, West Yorkshire Police
Northern Ireland
- Sharon Elizabeth Cromie, Sergeant, Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Robert James McGowan, Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland
- John Patrick Sayers, Chief Inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland