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Giles York QPM has been the most senior police officer in the county since 2014, police said.
A police spokesman said Mr York has been a ‘leading light nationally’ in promoting equality in the policing locally and nationally. He is currently Vice Chair of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the national body representing the country’s most senior police officers.
He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for services to policing in the New Year’s Honours in 2015.
Making the announcement, he said: “It has been an absolute privilege to have been a police officer for more than 30 years, to have worked with so many fantastic, hard-working, loyal and selfless people, and an honour to have protected and served the public.
https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/crime/chief-constable-sussex-police-step-down-2071929
According to provision 1 of section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 :
A public official or person acting in an official capacity, whatever his nationality, commits the offence of torture if in the United Kingdom or elsewhere he intentionally inflicts severe pain or suffering on another in the performance or purported performance of his official duties.
Provision 3 makes it clear that this includes psychological torture.
(3)It is immaterial whether the pain or suffering is physical or mental and whether it is caused by an act or an omission.
Provision 6 states that the maximum sentence for a public official who engages in torture, is life in prison.
A person who commits the offence of torture shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.