Sacha joined the police service in February 1997 and has worked within a variety of different roles across North Wales Police, Cheshire and now Lancashire Constabulary. As Assistant Chief Constable in North Wales Sacha had responsibility for Local Policing, Crime and Specialist Ops. Sacha took up the position of Deputy Chief Constable at Lancashire Constabulary on 27th September 2021. The three Assistant Chief Constables and the Chief Operating Officer reported to her as the Deputy Chief Constable. Sacha also had responsibility for the Professional Standards Department, Corporate Development and Legal Services. In September 2022, Sacha took responsibility as the NPCC lead for Serious Violence Reduction and Public Health Approaches in Policing. Following the retirement of predecessor Chris Rowley, Sacha successfully passed the Chief Constable recruitment process and on Wednesday 6th March 2024 Sacha was confirmed as the Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary.

Since joining Lancashire Constabulary Sam has split his service between uniformed and investigative roles and enjoyed time in every rank up to Chief Superintendent within these different functions. His experiences range from being a CBM in Blackpool and Response Sgt in Blackburn through to PPU DCI and the Head of PSD. He has also enjoyed working in every division across the county. More recently Sam has been the Head of Local Policing having spent the previous year at HMICFRS leading on the development of the PEEL Inspection and prior to taking up his current role he was the Assistant Chief Constable (Crime and Specialist Capabilities). Sam is responsible for the day-to-day running of the force and also oversees our Professional Standards Department, Legal Services and Corporate Development.

Stasia joined us as a Direct Entry Superintendent in 2017, working in frontline policing on her rotations before becoming Operations Manager within East Division in 2019. Stasia became Head of Corporate Development, based at Headquarters, before moving to the south in 2022 as the BCU Commander for the last two years. She successfully achieved promotion to the role of ACC for Territorial Operations on 1 May 2025. Before joining the Police, Stasia began her career as a Forensic Psychologist within the Prison Service and a High Secure Hospital. She then went on to work for the Home Office and Local Government in senior leadership positions involving public protection, youth justice and children’s services. As ACC for Territorial Operations, Stasia is responsible for Response, Response Investigation Team (RIT), Partnerships and Prevention, local policing across Lancashire and Media and Engagement.

Mark joined Lancashire Constabulary in 1996, starting his career as a PC in Accrington. He has undertaken a breadth of uniform and detective roles across all three divisions of the Constabulary, and prior to joining the Chief Officer Team in March 2024 he was the East Divisional Commander. Mark has previously held several senior management positions within the Constabulary, including Head of Investigations and Safeguarding, Head of the Professional Standards Department, and Operations Manager roles in South and West divisions. Mark is also a Gold Public Order Commander and Strategic Firearms Commander. As ACC for Crime and Specialist Operations, Mark is responsible for Crime, Specialist Capabilities, Vulnerability, and he also has force responsibility for Investigations.

Gillian joined the force in February 2022, having previously worked as Head of Tasking and Coordination at Durham Constabulary which included responsibilities for Intelligence Counter Terrorism, Forensics, Media and Marketing, combined intelligence and performance analytic team together with all the traditional Corporate Development services. She has over 18 years of experience in policing and has supported national programmes for many years and was instrumental in Durham’s constant success, bringing with her a huge knowledge of both enabling services and operational policing. She is responsible for the delivery of Support Services including Data Protection, Estates and Facilities, Information Communication Technology, Fleet, Human Resources, Learning and Development, Organisational Development, Finance and Procurement.​

Gareth has 23 years of policing experience in Cheshire Constabulary, working geographically across the whole force in uniform and detective roles at every rank. More recently, Gareth has held the position of Detective Chief Superintendent, serving as Head of Protecting Vulnerable People (PVP) and, before that, as Head of Crime. As Assistant Chief Constable, he is responsible for the Specialist Operations portfolio, which is made up of Contact Management, Criminal Justice, Custody and Specialist Operations. He has experience of organisational change having led a force-wide change to the constabulary operating model and experience of partnership working both locally and with Criminal Justice partners as a former Head of Criminal Justice and Custody. As an experienced Strategic Firearms Commander (SFC) and former Tactical Firearms Commander (TFC) he has excellent insight into operational command and experience of force gold duties.

Jason has worked in three police forces during his career, starting in West Midlands Police then moving to North Wales Police and he has recently joined Lancashire Constabulary. Jason’s career is split between uniform local policing roles and CID investigations, becoming an SIO and leading Public Protection for North Wales and being the Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) lead for three years. He spent time on secondment for 18 months working in the new largest prison in England and Wales, working to develop the prison links with policing, and becoming a silver commander within prisons. Jason is also a Strategic Firearms Commander having been a Tactical Firearms Commander for many years. He now works in the National Criminal Justice portfolio which the Chief Constable chairs. He is developing the police response to national changes to Criminal Justice processes and structures.