New Year Honours 2016
Nigel Grimshaw MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Chief Superintendent
“For services to Policing and the community in Northern Ireland.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to Policing and the community in Northern Ireland.
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2015
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Nigel James GRIMSHAW
Chief Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland
For services to Policing and the community in Northern Ireland.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61450 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Belfast
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Member of the Order of the British Empire
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- Chief Superintendent
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- Belfast
“For services to Policing and the community in Northern Ireland.”
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How common is this award?
The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 572 times in the New Year Honours List 2016 — about 39% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Superintendent.
How widely is this recognised?
664 people have been recognised for Policing & Emergency Services.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2016
(Cyril) Jeffrey Fox
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West Midlands
“For services to the community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.”
Adam Foster
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Adrian Koe
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Cambridgeshire
“For voluntary service to Young People through the Downside Fisher Youth Club, Bermondsey, London.”
Adrian Thompson
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Adrian Weston
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Leicestershire
“For services to the community and charity in Leicestershire.”
Adrian Wills
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Derbyshire
“For services to the community in Leicester.”
Afsheen Rashid
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London
“For services to Renewable Energy Projects in Deprived London Communities.”
Aftab Chughtai
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West Midlands
“For services to Business and Community Relations in Birmingham.”
Agnes Grunwald-spier
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London
“For services to the Jewish Community and Holocaust Awareness.”
Ahmed Awan
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Staffordshire
“For services to Business and International Trade”
Ailsa Bosworth
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Berkshire
“For services to People with Rheumatoid Arthritis”
Alan Grant
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Alan Mackie
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Alasdair Wills
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Alexander Stewart
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Perth and Kinross
“For voluntary service in Perth and Kinross.”
Alexandra Hyatt
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Alfred Forster
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Buckinghamshire
“For services to Patients with Prostate Cancer.”
Alice Lester
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London
“For services to Planning.”
Alina Ibragimova
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London
“For services to Music.”
Alison Lewy
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London
“For services to the Fashion Industry.”
Alison Mihail
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Berkshire
“For services to Young People.”
Allan Pacey
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South Yorkshire
“For services to Reproductive Medicine.”
Amy Hughes
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“For services to humanitarian and emergency medicine.”
In the same field
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Across the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records, 664 people have been recognised for Policing & Emergency Services. See the full list →
Lynn Brown
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Gullane, East Lothian
“For services to Policing and Public Service.”
John Scott
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Belfast, City of Belfast
“For services to Policing.”
Dharmesh Mistry
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Leeds, West Yorkshire
“For services to Policing and to the community in Bradford and Leeds.”
Hitesh Mehta
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Coventry, West Midlands
“For services to Policing, to Charity and to Volunteering in Coventry, West Midlands.”
Michael Leonard
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Solihull, West Midlands
“For services to Policing.”
Scott Caswell
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
“For services to Policing and to Veterans.”
Janice Bulfield
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Fordingbridge, Dorset
“For services to Policing.”
Neil Barclay
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London, Greater London
“For services to Prisoner Rehabilitation.”
Brian Whitaker
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London, Greater London
“For services to Policing and to National Security.”
Maria Mcnicholl
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London, Greater London
“For services to Prisons and Prisoners.”
Kyle Gordon
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Swanley, Kent
“For services to Transport Policing.”
Ian Drysdale
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Ashford, Kent
“For services to Policing.”
Karen Andrew
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Swansea, Mid Glamorgan
“For services to Prisoners, to the Administration of Justice and to the community in Swansea.”
Alexis Poole
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Exeter, Devon
“For services to Policing.”
Terence Woods
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Darwen, Lancashire
“For services to Policing.”
Paul Taylor
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Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire
“For services to Science in Policing.”
Serena Kennedy
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
“For services to Policing.”
Marcos Petrou
PersonOverseas Territories Police And Fire Service Medal · 2026
“For services to policing and security in the Sovereign Base Areas.”
Xavier Buhagiar
PersonOverseas Territories Police And Fire Service Medal · 2026
“For services to police training and leadership in the Gibraltar Defence Police.”
James Thompson
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Northumberland
“For services to Policing.”
Kanti Pindoria
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Policing and to the community in London.”
Dudley Martin
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
“For services to the Policing Community.”
Susan Holliday
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Wigton, Cumbria
“For services to Policing and to the community in Cumbria.”
Leslie Hawkins
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
“For services to Policing and to the community in Essex.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2016
London Gazette (official record), issue 61450, notice 2454641. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2016).
Published 31 December 2015.
Location (Belfast) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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