Chris Gregg QPM

Queen's Police Medal

The Queen's Police Medal is awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service. Recipients may use the post-nominal letters "QPM", although the right to use these was only granted officially on 20 July 1969...

, (b.Huddersfield

Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, England) is a former Detective Chief Superintendent and was head of West Yorkshire Police’s Homicide and Major Enquiry Team (HMET). Gregg joined the force in 1974 and as a constable was put on front-line duties in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry in the Helen Rytka murder incident room. He left the force in 2008 to take up a senior position as an adviser to a forensic service provider company, LGC Forensics. In 2010 Gregg, together with Lord Stevens and Dr Angela Gallop, founded Axiom International Limited.

Awards

Gregg was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours

Queen's Birthday Honours

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. Chief Constable

Chief Constable

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 of West Yorkshire, Sir Norman Bettison

Norman Bettison

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, described Gregg as one of the finest detectives the force had ever known.

Career

In a 34 year career, Gregg headed up some high profile criminal investigations of recent years including:

• The kidnap and murder in November 2000 of 16-year old Leeds schoolgirl Leanne Tiernan
  Leanne Tiernan
  The murder of Leanne Tiernan was a high-profile English child abduction and murder involving a schoolgirl who was abducted less than one mile from her home on 26 November 2000 while returning from a Christmas shopping trip in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and subsequently murdered...
  
   by John Taylor described at his trial in 2002 by the judge as a "sexual sadist". In February 2003, he was convicted of two rapes, based on DNA evidence, and given two additional life sentences

• The American fugitive David Bieber
  David Bieber
  David Francis Bieber also known under the alias Nathan Wayne Coleman is an American convicted murderer. A fugitive from the United States, he murdered PC Ian Broadhurst and attempted to murder PCs Neil Roper and James Banks on 26 December 2003 in Leeds, England, sparking a nationwide search...
  
   who murdered traffic PC Ian Broadhurst and attempted the murder of two other policemen on 26 December 2003.

• Identification of the Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer, John Humble, who was tried and sentenced in October 2005 – 25 years after the offence which was one of the most notorious – and damaging – hoaxes in criminal history Gregg won £50,000 libel damages, plus costs, after being accused by Irish writer Noel O'Gara of "stitching up" John Humble as the writer of the hoax letters and sender of a tape recording purporting to be from the Yorkshire Ripper.

• Serial killer Colin Norris
  Colin Norris
  Colin Campbell Norris was a Scottish nurse and convicted serial killer from the Milton area in Glasgow who was convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds, England, in 2002. He was sentenced in 2008 to serve a minimum of 30 years in prison...
  
  , dubbed the 'Angel of Death' who murdered four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds receiving a life sentence in 2008.

• Gregg led the enquiry into the Harold Shipman
  Harold Shipman
  Harold Fredrick Shipman was an English doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history with 218 murders being positively ascribed to him....
  
  deaths in West Yorkshire, when Shipman, a practising medical doctor, was apprehended, later having 218 murders positively ascribed to him.

On leaving the force he spoke against the misuse by suspected murderers of the protective shield of human rights legislation.