Index of senior officers at cardiff docks
CHIEF OFFICERS OF POLICE
Until the Bute Dock Police was absorbed into the GWR Police in 1922, the Superintendent was also the Chief Officer in charge of the force.
| Oct. 1858 – 10.01.1873 | Superintendent Daniel O’Brien Gavin |
| c. 1874- | Superintendent Joseph Carne Ross |
| c. 1880- | Superintendent Henry Urquhart |
| c. 1882 – 09.12.1885 | Superintendent Thomas Edwards |
| 21.12.1885 – 02.12.1897 | Superintendent John O'Gorman |
| c. 1899 – c.1907 | Superintendent Herbert Evans |
| c. 1907 – 21.05.1922 | Superintendent David Davies |
CHIEF OFFICERS after 1922, stationed in London
| c. 21.05.1922 – 1936 | John H. Matthews (GWR) |
| 1936 – 31.12.1945 | George Stephens (GWR) |
| 01.01.1946 – 31.12.1947 | Arthur Lane OBE (GWR) |
| 01.01.1948 – 31.12.1955 | William B. Richards (BTC) |
| 01.01.1956 – 06.07.1958 | Colonel N. McNaughton-Jesper DSO OBE MC FRD, (BTC) |
| 07.07.1958 – 01.09.1963 | Arthur C. West OBE (BTC) (The first 'Chief Constable') |
| 02.09.1963 – 27.06.1974 | William Owen Gay (BTP) |
| 02.09.1974 – 08.02.1981 | Eric Haslam OBE QPM (BTP) |
| 09.02.1981 – 13.04.1985 | Kenneth Ogram (BTP) (Oversaw withdrawal) |
SUPERINTENDENTS after 1922 in command of Cardiff Docks
| c. 1906 – c.1925 | David Davies (Cardiff Docks only) |
| c. 1925 – May 1941 | David 'Jack' Johnson (Cardiff Docks only) |
| JUNE 1941 – 01.05.1952 | John Ridd MBE (All South Wales Docks) |
| MAY 1952 – 26.04.1958 | Archibald W. Jordan (Docks & Rail) |
| 28.04.1958 – 31.12.1963 | Edwin T. Leath |
| 01.01.1964 – 23.11.1970 | William J.A. Voyle (South Wales Docks) |
| 23.03.1971 – 28.10.1972 | Douglas H. Sellick (Docks & Rail) |
| 04.02.1973 – 28.09.1974 | William D. Edmunds (The only Chief Superintendent) |
| 08.12.1974 – 11.02.1978 | Leslie Cockerton (Combined Docks & Rail) |
| 20.03.1978 – 13.04.1985 | Colin R. J. Ayres (Oversaw withdrawal) |
CHIEF INSPECTORS
The rank of Chief Inspector did not exist before 1948 when the British Transport Commission Police was formed after nationalisation. The first vacancy was advertised in Area Orders in December 1949. The rank of Detective Chief Inspector has never existed anywhere in South Wales.
| (1953) – NOV 1954 | Charles Harry Martin |
| Feb 1955 – 1958 | Harry Thomas Allin |
| 28.04.1958 – 12.09.1963 | William John Ayling Voyle |
| 29.09.1963 – 31.12.1963 | J.A. Stronach |
| 01.01.1964 – 14.09.1969 | Ken Race |
| 19.10.1969 – 28.06.1970 | William F. Palmer |
| 23.08.1970 – 15.11.1971 | D. Alec Hoskins |
| 16.11.1971 – 07.07.1973 | Tom Buckle |
| 19.08.1973 – 02.10.1976 | Eric JONES |
| 29.11.1976 – 13.04.1985 | Stan BARBER |
INSPECTORS
Cardiff Docks had always been a single Inspector's post with the exception of the latter part of the 1920s when there were two, a day Inspector and a night Inspector, and during the Second World War. In the early 1930s it went to the other extreme for a few years, when neither post was filled following retirements.
| 07.04.1874 – c.1882 | Thomas Edwards |
| 11.03.1893 – 31.12.1914 | James Bell |
| 01.01.1915 – 10.04.1926 | Charles Price |
| 16.01.1922 – c. 1930 | Patrick Hurley (The Night Inspector!) |
| 1937 – SEPT 1951 | W. Reuben Minns |
| AUG 1940 – | J.S. Bowen |
| ? – SEPT 1942 | J.H. Green (Special Constabulary) |
| JUNE 1943 – MARCH 1944 | C.W. Haynes |
| ? – SEPT 1943 | Anwyl Davies |
| 1944 – 1962 | Cecil Sidney Knapman |
| DEC 1951 – | Idris John |
| 1962 – 27.11.1967 | William M. Roberts |
| 27.11.1967 – 01.09.1981 | Ivor John Bromley |
| 12.10.1981 – 13.04.1985 | Anthony C. Kitts |
DETECTIVE INSPECTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR CARDIFF DOCKS.
The rank of Detective Inspector only appears after amalgamation with the GWR in 1922 and even then the officers were normally stationed at Cardiff Rail or Divisional Headquarters with responsibility for the docks when needed. Strictly speaking, there was one exception to this, DI Vic Miller, the last Detective Inspector, served at the South Wales Divisional HQ when it was located at Rover Way on Cardiff Docks, though he too was responsible for both docks and rail police posts throughout South Wales.
| 1922 – AUG 1936 | Thomas E. OWEN |
| 1936 – JUN 1941 | John RIDD |
| JUN 1941 – NOV 1949 | I.R. WILLIAMS |
| 1949 – ? | W. SULLIVAN |
| ? – 28.03.1960 | William J. INSELL |
| 1960 – 17.09.1962 | William D. EDMUNDS |
| 22.10.1962 – 1963 | A.E.WATSON |
| 31.05.1970 – 20.01.1974 | John PARSONS |
| 08.03.1976 – 24.11.1980 | Roy HULIN |
| 1983 – 03.03.1985 | Victor Michael MILLER |