New Year Honours 2016
Sarah Payne CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Director • National Offender Mangement Service
“For services to Prisons, Probation and the community in Wales.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Prisons, Probation and the community in Wales.
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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:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Mrs Sarah PAYNE
Director, National Offender Mangement Service, Wales, Ministry of Justice
For services to Prisons, Probation and the community in Wales.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61450 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
Location
South Glamorgan
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2016- Role at the time
- Director, National Offender Mangement Service
- Region
- South Glamorgan
“For services to Prisons, Probation and the community in Wales.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 119 times in the New Year Honours List 2016 — about 8% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Director, National Offender Mangement Service.
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.
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Swansea, Mid Glamorgan
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Exeter, Devon
“For services to Policing.”
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Darwen, Lancashire
“For services to Policing.”
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Northumberland
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Where this record comes from
Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2016
London Gazette (official record), issue 61450, notice 2454060. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2016).
Published 31 December 2015.
Location (South Glamorgan) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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