Giles Orpen-Smellie is a British
Conservative Party politician, and the former
Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner
The Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Norfolk Police in the English County of Norfolk. The post was created in November 2012, follow ...
having held the position from May 2021 until May 2024.
Orpen-Smellie was in the
Parachute Regiment for 34 years and has since worked in the charity sector, where he is a trustee of Embrace CVOC.
Orpen-Smellie rose to the rank of colonel and fought in the Falklands War, where he was an intelligence officer with 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.
Orpen-Smellie is a published author.
Publications
*''Tactical Intelligence in the Falklands Campaign''. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2022.
References
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Living people
Police and crime commissioners in England
Conservative Party police and crime commissioners
British Parachute Regiment officers
British non-fiction writers
British military historians
Year of birth missing (living people)