Chief Constable Raymond N. Buxton
Chief Constable Raymond Naylor Buxton Esq., O.B.E., B.E.M.,Q.P.M.
Raymond Naylor Buxton was appointed Chief Constable of Hertfordshire on 1st September 1969 following the retirement of Colonel A. F. Wilcox, previously serving as the County’s Deputy Chief Constable since August 1965 and Assistant Chief Constable from August 1963.
Buxton started his police career at the age of 20 in 1936 with Staffordshire County Police where he served until his last appointment as Chief Superintendent in charge of the Traffic and Communications department.
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1946 – PS Buxton is pictured 4th from left in the front row outside Seighford Hall with Constables of the no.1 driving course for Staffordshire Police with seven sergeant instructors and an Inspector in charge.
Buxton’s promotion to Inspector in Staffordshire was published in the Rugeley Times on Saturday 27 August 1949; ‘To fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Police Inspector H. M. Benwell of the Staffordshire County Constabulary, Police Sergeant Raymond Naylor Buxton has been promoted to the rank of inspector and transferred from Stafford to Burton-on-Trent. A native of Walsall, Inspector Buxton joined the force in May 1936 and later stationed a Wednesbury, Darlaston and worked as an instructor at the County Police Training Centre, Seighford Hall.
During the war he served in the RAF with the rank of Flying Officer.’
During the war years Buxton served in the Royal Air Force from August 1943 to September 1945 and was commissioned as a navigator in 1944.
In 1957 he was awarded the British Empire Medal.
From 1958 to 1961 he was on the staff of the Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire.
On 1st January 1971 Her Majesty The Queen approved the award of the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and on 14th June 1975 he was further awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
In 1977 Buxton was named on the nominal roll of Recipients of HM The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal
On 31st October 1977 he retired as Chief Constable of Hertfordshire having been in charge of the Force for just over 8 years.
He was a resident of Harpenden and had three sons, one of which was a Constable in Kent Constabulary. In addition to his police role he was also a member of the Medico-Legal Society and the vice-president of Hertfordshire’s Small Bore Rifle Association.
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