
New Year Honours 2020
Professor Allyson Elaine MACVEAN OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Organisation: Bath Spa University
“Professor of Policing and Criminology, Bath Spa University. For services to Ethics in Policing”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor of Policing and Criminology, Bath Spa University. For services to Ethics in Policing
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
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:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Allyson Elaine MACVEAN
Professor of Policing and Criminology, Bath Spa University
For services to Ethics in Policing.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3454953. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 30 December 2019.
Location (Somerset) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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