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Former chief constable dies

 

Tributes are being paid to a Peel man who went on to become the chief constable of Staffordshire Police.

 

Charles Kelly CBE died at the age of 84, and was the county’s top officer from 1977 to 1996.

 

He was born in Peel and became a police cadet in 1946, doing his National Service in the military police before moving to the civilian force in Yorkshire.

 

He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal and a CBE in 1985.

 

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