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Colin Cramphorn was the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police from September 2002 to November 2006.
Colin Cramphorn was educated at Strodes Grammar School, Egham, before joining the Surrey Constabulary in 1975. In 1995 he was appointed an Assistant Chief Constable with West Mercia Constabulary. In 1998 he moved to the Royal Ulster Constabulary where he, breifly was Acting Chief Constable prior to Sir Hugh Orde appointemnt in May 2002. Cramphorn continued as Orde's deputy until September 2002, when he was appointed Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police.
In the Queen's New Year’s Honours List of 2004, Colin was awarded the QPM and In January 2006 Mr Cramphorn was appointed to serve as a Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire.
A Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and of the Chartered Management Institute, a member of the Institute of Business Ethics, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (formerly the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency), and an Associate of St. George's House Windsor. He was also a patron of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Research Equipment Fund and a member of the Council of the Order of St. John South and West Yorkshire.
ColinCramphorn, the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, who died yesterday aged 50, held some of the hottest seats in British policing over the past decade.
Cramphorn was profoundly conscious that 7/7 had taken place four years to the day after the Bradford riots, not to mention recent BNP gains in local elections.
Cramphorn was subsequently seconded to the Home Office and then served as a sub-divisional and divisional commander in Greater Manchester.
ColinCramphorn, chief constable of West Yorkshire from 2002 until earlier this year, who has died of prostate cancer aged 50, was one of the most thoughtful of Britain's senior police officers, with an understanding of terrorism and divided communities.
Cramphorn's strong sense of leadership won him the trust and admiration of his force, particularly as word spread that he had learned on the day of the London bombings that his previously manageable cancer had spread to his spine.
Cramphorn enjoyed two years on the beat in Guildford, Surrey, but was rapidly promoted and in later years balanced his nostalgia for old-fashioned "bobbying" with the view that the world and social conditions had moved on.
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