John Carter (police officer)

Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 [LondonGazette|issue=34566|startpage=6813|date=1 November 1938|accessdate=2007-12-12] to September 1940. [LondonGazette|issue=34940|startpage=5406|date=6 September 1940|accessdate=2007-12-12]

Carter was the son of a Captain in the Royal Engineers. He was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. Having passed out as Queen's Cadet, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant into the Indian Staff Corps on 28 July 1900. [LondonGazette|issue=27214|startpage=4656|date=27 July 1900|accessdate=2007-12-12] [LondonGazette|issue=27398|startpage=392|date=17 January 1902|accessdate=2007-12-12] He served in Waziristan in 1901–1902 and was seconded to the Indian Police Service in Burma in 1905. He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 October 1902, and Captain on 28 July 1909 (by which time he was serving with the 35th Sikhs). [LondonGazette|issue=28294|startpage=7357|date=5 October 1909|accessdate=2007-12-12] In World War I he served as a GSO2 (staff officer) [LondonGazette|issue=30558|supp=yes|startpage=2849|date=5 March 1918|accessdate=2007-12-12] on the Imperial General Staff, reaching the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel [LondonGazette|issue=31094|supp=yes|startpage=65|date=31 December 1918|accessdate=2007-12-12] and being mentioned in despatches twice. In 1915 he married Gwendolyn Georges; they had a son and a daughter.

He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919 (although he did not formally retire from the army until 1921) [LondonGazette|issue=32380|startpage=5360|date=5 July 1921|accessdate=2007-12-12] and was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissioner on 24 October 1922. In 1933 he took command of No.2 District (North-West London), based at Paddington.

In 1923, Carter was made a Cavalier of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus by the King of Italy. [LondonGazette|issue=32801|startpage=1493|date=2 March 1923|accessdate=2007-12-12] On 3 June 1925 (in the King's Birthday Honours he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). [LondonGazette|issue=33053|supp=yes|startpage=3775|date=2 June 1925|accessdate=2007-12-12]

Carter died in Tavistock, Devon, aged 62.

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*Obituary, "The Times", 17 July 1944