Jacqui Cheer

Jacqui Cheer was a senior police officer in the United Kingdom. She was the Chief Constable of Cleveland Police until retiring from the Police Service in March 2016.

Cheer joined Essex Police in 1984. In 2004 she attended a Strategic Command Course, and transferred to Suffolk Police as an Assistant Chief Constable in 2006. She was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable with Suffolk.

Cheer was appointed Chief Constable of Cleveland Police on a permanent basis by the force's Police and Crime Commissioner, Barry Coppinger, in February 2013. She has been the temporary chief since late 2011, following the suspension and subsequent sacking of her predecessor, Sean Price, and his deputy, Derek Bonnard.

In September 2013, she received adverse publicity for failing Cleveland Police's fitness test. She was believed to be the first chief officer to fail, although a force spokesman said that as she was in a non-operational role, she was not required to take, (or by implication, pass) the test.

From January to March 2015, Cheer was seconded as an instructor to the London Police College.

She has been awarded the Queen's Police Medal.