A MARRIED couple were among five new police officers sworn in at the Royal Court.
PCs Peter Devoy and Natalie Devoy, Isabel Atherley, Gary Titherly and Storm McEvoy took their oaths of office yesterday.
Their wide-ranging experiences “strengthens us as a service”, said Detective Chief Inspector Mark Hafey.
“We are welcoming five officers who bring with them a genuinely impressive breadth of experience.” he added. “From response policing and CID to counter terrorism and forensic collision investigation, safeguarding, and proactive policing. That is something we recognise, and something we value.”
DCI Hafey said that Jersey policing is “community-focused, highly visible, and deeply connected to the Island we serve”.
PC Atherley and PC McEvoy both grew up in Jersey. PC McEvoy served in the Army before joining Sussex Police, working on response in Horsham, while PC Atherley worked in criminal investigations in Avon and Somerset Police having joined on a graduate scheme.
PC Titherly has 22 years of policing experience in Kent and the Metropolitan Police – including major crime investigations, forensics, repatriations, maritime incidents, and implementing how abuse cases are treated. He was part of the investigation into major terrorist attacks in 2017.
He is moving to the Island with his wife, who is from Jersey, and their 16-month-old son.
And PCs Peter and Natalie Devoy previously worked in the Metropolitan Police. PC Peter Devoy worked on emergency response and on a ‘Predatory Offender Unit’ conducting manhunts of high-risk offenders, before becoming a forensic collision investigator. PC Natalie Devoy has lived in Egypt before working in the Met’s Missing Persons Unit and specialising in counter-terrorism policing.
