predecessor party profession office birth_date term_start article_title name
office created conservative party defence and aviation exports police and crime commissioner for thames valley police 14 october 1945 -lrb- aged 68 -rrb- 22 november 2012 anthony stansfeld
 anthony stansfeld
anthony stansfeld

anthony stansfeld is the police and crime commissioner for thames valley police .
he is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 november 2012 as the conservative party candidate .
he was elected to west berkshire council in 2003 representing kintbury ward , having previously served on kintbury parish council .
from 2008-2012 he was appointed to thames valley police authority , becoming chairman of the performance committee in 2011 -rrb- .
he has had a career in both the military and in industry .
he enlisted in the army at 17 and joined the royal green jackets where he saw active service in borneo and northern ireland .
he learnt to fly helicopters at middle wallop and commanded various army air corps squadrons , including the army helicopters in the falkland islands in the latter half of 1982 .
he spent 2 years as chief of staff intelligence in the far east .
on leaving the army he was marketing , and then , for 6 years , managing director of the aircraft company pilatus britten norman , which had aircraft in over 100 countries .
at the same time he commanded the army reserve helicopters as a ta officer .
while in the army he spent 4 months carrying out the reconnaissance for the crossing of the darien gap in panama and columbia , and led the first stage of operation raleigh , taking young people through the jungles of honduras and belize .
he was , for 8 years , a trustee of the thames valley air ambulance .
he has an msc and studied international terrorism and global security in depth at university .
