Stephen Rimmer

Biography

Stephen Rimmer joined the Home Office in 1984 and worked in a variety of policy posts, both at the Home Office headquarters and in the Northern Ireland Office until 1993.

Stephen’s career history includes:

• Deputy Governor of Strangeways prison
• Governor of Gartree prison in Leicestershire (an all-lifer establishment) and then of Wandsworth prison (a large Victorian local prison)
• Director of Policing Policy in the Home Office, with responsibility for all areas of police policy work other than that covered by the standards unit
• in October 2005, he joined the Metropolitan police service as a member of its management board and as Director of Strategy, modernisation and performance
• in November 2007, he returned to the Home Office to become director of the Prevent strategy, and of the research, information and communications unit, within the office for security and counter-terrorism. March 2009 saw him taking up the role of director general, crime and policing group.