Philip Wilkinson (British Army officer)

Colonel Philip Roy Wilkinson OBE (born October 1948)[1] is a retired British Army officer who has served as the Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner since August 2021.Wilkinson was educated at Sandhurst, from where on 25 July 1969 he was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery.[2] He was a Major in that regiment by 1982[3] and later served in the Commando and Parachute Brigades and the Special Forces.This was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and he returned to Wiltshire and began to write a book of memoirs, Sharpening the Weapons of Peace,[6] while becoming a senior research fellow at King's College London.[7] Wilkinson stood successfully for the Conservative Party as Wiltshire's police and crime commissioner at the by-election on 19 August 2021,[8] after the May 2021 election had failed to elect a qualified candidate.
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