Argus Title: We need peace, not power battles
Supt Graham Bartlett, Sussex Police’s new Head of Crime and Operations in Brighton & Hove, has been in post for approximately two months. He oversees all operational policing in the city.
I’ve known Graham for years. When I first met him I was working for a domestic violence charity and he was a talented young Detective Sergeant, on the cusp of promotion to Inspector. He had been brought into Brighton to develop work to combat hate crime.
Graham headed the new Home Office funded Anti-Victimisation Unit in its early days, before serious injuries from a car accident meant he had to leave and undertake more sedentary work.
He was knowledgeable about abuse issues and deeply committed to improving the police’s response to domestic violence. Prior his posting in Brighton he had worked at Police Headquarters with the then Assistant Chief Constable Maria Wallis. Continue reading