Temporary Chief Constable Mark Hobrough

Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hobrough joined Gwent Police in 2020 as the chief superintendent in charge of local policing for Caerphilly, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent, before becoming assistant chief constable in January 2022.

With more than 28 years of service, his varied policing career has included planning and implementing high-profile events and operations, leading organisational reform programmes along with community and partnership roles.

Mark gained a BA honours degree in financial economics before he joined South Wales Police in 1995. He’s previously worked as police dog handler and is a trained tactical firearms commander and hostage negotiator. He developed those skills to become a specialist strategic firearms commander, gold public order commander, gold CBRN commander and the Welsh regions’ lead counter terrorism security co-ordinator.

His policing career has taken him around the globe; he’s worked overseas for the Kenyan Police in Nairobi, as well as the Queensland Police in Australia to support the policing of the Commonwealth Games in 2018.

In 2020, during a challenging time for all in our communities, Mark was responsible for the force’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as gold lead.

During his time in Gwent, Mark has led the development of the roads policing and specialist operations (RPSO) department, as well as the review of our uniformed policing operating model.

He is the National Police Chief’s Council’s (NPCC) lead on animal diseases, an important area of risk linked to wider civil contingencies. More recently, Mark also became the NPCC lead for dangerous dogs and provides national operational perspectives on crime and policing issues relating to this.

Mark feels passionately about improving public confidence through improving performance, and is keen to drive crime prevention and reduction, ethical and prompt crime recording and thoroughness of investigations by a professional and positive workforce.