Alex Murray

Alex Murray

Alex Murray grew up around the world as an army child and graduated from Birmingham University.  His partner is a sign language interpreter, and they have three mischievous children.  Initially in West Midlands Police he worked in CID and uniform roles in the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. 

He has been a senior investigating officer for homicide and has extensive experience within Counter Terrorism and Intelligence.   In 2008 he graduated from Cambridge University with a thesis that developed the understanding of police legitimacy within Muslim communities.   He is a firearms and public order commander.  He was temporary ACC Crime in West Midlands for three years leading crime investigations, forensics, criminal justice and intelligence.  He then became Commander, Specialist Crime in the Met, London.  In 2021/2022 he led on violence in London in response to heightened levels of teenage homicide.    He has previously been attached to the Home Office and is now the Chief Constable (Temp) in West Mercia Police.   He is also the UK Police lead for Artificial Intelligence. 

He is the founder of the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) which seeks to use, communicate and produce high quality evidence of what is effective.   SEBPs now operate around the world.   He has collaborated with the Behavioural Insights Team to improve policing outcomes and has worked on police training programmes in India, Cambodia and Europe.  He has received several national and international awards and in 2017 he was awarded an OBE.