Our chief officers

Ivan originally joined Northamptonshire Police in 2000 where he carried out a variety of roles, mainly as a detective. He has been a Senior Investigating Officer, Strategic Firearms Commander and a hostage negotiator.

In 2015, he successfully passed the Senior Police National Assessment Centre and attended the Strategic Command Course in 2016.

In 2016 he headed the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Command in London which was responsible for investigating all rape offences in the capital. He was then appointed as the Metropolitan Police's Commander for Intelligence and Covert Policing, responsible for tackling some of the most serious crimes and establishing strategic working with key stakeholders, including Surveillance Commissioners. Ivan has also pioneered a number of high-profile policing initiatives such as 'Live Facial Recognition'. Before returning to Northamptonshire Police in May 2022, Ivan was responsible for all custody provision in the Metropolitan Police.

From 2017 until April 2025, Ivan was the National Police Chiefs Council lead for Honour-Based Abuse: Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation. Ivan led on the design and implementation of a new HBA national policing strategy, was responsible for quality performance delivery as well as ensuring England & Wales Police Forces adhered to HMICFRS Recommendations and influenced legislative changes to FGM/FM Protection Orders ensuring they were managed in an efficient and effective way. Under Ivan’s tenure the first ever criminal convictions for Forced Marriage & Female Genital Mutilation in England & Wales were achieved.

In September 2024, Ivan took responsibility for the National Police Chiefs Council portfolio for Custody and the Movement of Prisoners.

Out of work – but very much connected to our priorities, Ivan is a Trustee for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust which is a charity that runs the National Stalking Helpline and aims to reduce the risk of violence and aggression through campaigning, education and support.

Ash joined Northamptonshire Police in 2004 where he carried out a variety of operational frontline roles, including response, neighbourhood policing and hostage and crisis negotiation.

He joined the Force Control Room as an Inspector in 2012, where his role included managing threat and risk, and became a pursuit and initial firearms commander.

During his time in the FCR Ash became a Chief Inspector and in 2018 was promoted to Head of Contact Management as a Superintendent.

Ash was promoted to Chief Superintendent on the Force's collaboration and interoperability project with Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service, before being appointed as Head of Local Policing, Contact Management and Custody in 2020.

He is an accredited Specialist Strategic Firearms and Public Order Gold Commander and is Multi-Agency Incident Commander trained.

In 2023/24, Ash successfully passed the Executive Leadership Programme before securing the position as Assistant Chief Constable, taking the lead for Local Policing and Specialist Operations.

Until recently, he was the chair of the county's Local Resilience Forum (LRF), a multi-agency partnership which works to identify, plan and prepare for major civil emergencies, ensuring that the region is better prepared to cope with potential risks and recover following a major incident.

Outside of work, Ash lives in the county and is married with two children.

Emma joined Northamptonshire Police in 2020 having served for 20 years in Bedfordshire Police, which she joined in December 2000 as a PC.

During her career, Emma has undertaken a variety of roles, but worked mainly as a Detective. She has completed all levels of investigation and is an accredited PIP2, Specialist Child Abuse investigator, PIP3 and now PIP4. 

She has worked within CID, on Murder Teams, Intelligence and Public Protection where she led the Child Protection Team, both as Detective Inspector and Detective Chief Inspector, leading a number of child death investigations and serious and complex crime investigations against children and the elderly.

Emma is experienced in working across the partnership landscape, specifically children and adult partnerships where she built strong relationships and worked together to protect those most vulnerable in the community.

Emma was eventually re-assigned to covert intelligence and accredited to PIP3 SOC. She was appointed Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) tackling serious and organised crime, disrupting organised crime groups and bringing offenders to justice.

When she transferred to Northamptonshire Police, she became Director of Intelligence, responsible for tackling some of the most serious crimes as well as building strategic working with key stakeholders including the Surveillance Commissioner.

Emma led on developing covert capabilities in Northamptonshire, before moving to become Head of Crime.

Emma continues to champion female leadership in policing and is passionate about supporting people and staff in order to enable them deliver the highest levels of service to our communities in order to fight crime and keep people safe.

Emma was promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent in 2023 and moved to a Chief Officer Support role, taking strategic leadership for Facial Recognition and the Professional Standards Department (PSD) Change Programme.

She is a Strategic Firearms and Multi-Agency Gold Commander-trained, leading on the multi-agency response to the localised flooding in Northamptonshire in January 2024. 

Outside of work, Emma is married with one child and one fur baby. She enjoys travelling and making memories with her family.

Adam joined Northamptonshire Police in 2003, and has served his entire policing career in the county. As a Constable Adam performed a number of roles in both the Operational and Crime Commands including working in CID, Major Incident Teams, Response and as a Staff Officer. Adam was promoted to Sergeant in 2008, when he performed the roles of Response and Custody Sergeant.

Adam joined the Force Control Room (FCR) as a Sergeant in 2011, where he became an accredited pursuit and initial firearms commander. This role involved managing threat and risk as well as managing the day-to-day resources of the Force. Adam would later perform the role of Force Control Room Inspector
Adam was promoted to Inspector in 2016, when he became a Neighbourhood Inspector for the town of Kettering that involved leading both the Response and Neighbourhood teams.

In 2018, Adam was promoted to Chief Inspector of the Force Control Room and would later become a Local Policing Area Chief Inspector.

In 2020, Adam was promoted to Superintendent performing a number of roles, he led the Force Control Room, the North Local Policing Area and the Specialist Operations Department.

Adam was appointed as Chief Superintendent in 2022, as Head of Local Policing, FCR and Custody and continued that role until June 2024.

Adam is currently a Temporary Assistant Chief Constable overseeing the local policing and operations commands, he is also the regional lead for Roads Policing. Adam has performed the roles of silver firearms and public order commander and is now an accredited gold for both.

Outside of work Adam is married with one child.

Paul first joined the Force’s Corporate Development team in 2008, having spent his entire career working in the public sector in Northamptonshire.

In 2012 he was seconded to the then Northamptonshire Police Authority ahead of the transition towards a new governance structure, with the arrival of PCCs, and worked in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner – more latterly the Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner – for eight years where he had ownership or leadership for everything a Commissioner can do, including policy, projects, prevention, criminal justice and fire, finishing as the Monitoring Officer and Head of Paid Service.

After most recently serving as Director of Enabling Services, including bringing the county’s police and fire services together in areas such as HR, finance, estates and IT, Paul took up his role as Assistant Chief Officer in October 2020, where he has the leadership across Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service for HR, finance, digital, estates and transport, whilst also having the chief officer lead for the Force’s Corporate Services department.