Philip Martin Wheatley CB (born 4 July 1948) is a British prison officer, formerly the Director General of the

National Offender Management Service His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) responsible for the correctional services in England and Wales. It was created in 2004 as the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) by combi ...

and before that, the Director General of

HM Prison Service His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part of His Majesty's Government charged with managing most of the prisons within England and ...

. Having attended

Leeds Grammar School Leeds Grammar School was an independent school founded 1552 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally a male-only school, in August 2005 it merged with Leeds Girls' High School to form The Grammar School at Leeds. The two schools physica ...

, Wheatley read law at the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

, immediately joining the Prison Service as an officer in 1969 on graduation. He worked in a variety of prisons before becoming Governor of

HM Prison Hull HMP Hull is a Category B men's local prison located in Kingston upon Hull in England. The term 'local' means that this prison holds people on remand to the local courts. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. History Hull Pr ...

in 1986. In 1990, he moved to headquarters, where he held a variety of operational management jobs. On 1 March 2003, he was appointed Director General of HM Prison Service, the first Director General to have previously been a prison officer. On 1 April 2008, the Prison Service was merged with the

National Probation Service The Probation Service (formerly the National Probation Service) for England and Wales is a statutory criminal justice service, mainly responsible for the supervision of offenders in the community and the provision of reports to the criminal cour ...

to create the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which he subsequently led as Director General. On 14 June 2004, he was made a Companion of the

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(CB) on the

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. He retired in June 2010. Jack Straw, Justice Minister during Wheatley's time as Director General of NOMS, praised him as "an extraordinarily dedicated individual" with "a record of public service that is second to none". Wheatley has since taken up employment as consultant to G4S, which operates prisons and justice services in the UK and elsewhere. His successor is Michael Spurr who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NOMS. Phil Wheatley has two children, Pinot (17) and Grigio (11).

Employment History

* 1969–70 Officer, Hatfield borstal,

HM Prison Leeds HM Prison Leeds is a Category B men's prison, located at Gloucester Terrace in the Armley area of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, which opened in 1847. Leeds Prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is still known locally as ...

; * 1970–74 Assistant governor,

; * 1974–78 Training specialist, HM Prison Service College; * 1978–82 Assistant governor, HM Prison Leeds; * 1982–86 Deputy governor,

HM Prison Gartree HM Prison Gartree is a Category B men's prison, located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England. Gartree is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. History Constructed on the western part of the site which was previously RAF Market Harbo ...

, Leicestershire; * 1986–90 Governor, HM Prison Hull; * 1990–92 HM Prison Service East Midlands area manager; * 1992–95 Assistant Director of Custody, HM Prison Service; * 1995–1999 Director of Dispersals (in charge of six highest security jails); * 1998–2003 Deputy Director General, HM Prison Service; * 2003–2008 Director General, HM Prison Service; * 2008–2010 Director General, National Offender Management Service.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wheatley, Phil 1948 births Living people British prison officers British prison governors Alumni of the University of Sheffield