Interview #61 | Behind the Badge: Former DCI Dean Wheeldon Discusses His Illustrious Policing Career
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🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I welcome Dean Wheeldon to the show in this interview episode.
Dean spent 8 years in the Royal Navy before leaving in 1986 and joining Derbyshire Constabulary, where he spent the next 25 years.
As Detective Chief Inspector, Dean worked on several high-profile cases, but perhaps the most notable was that of serial killer Andrew Dawson, who murdered three people between 1982 and 2010. Dean was the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) for that case.
Since retiring from the police in 2011, Dean has emigrated to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia where, despite initially only working a couple of days a week, he now earns a full-time living as a High Sheriff. He is responsible for the counties of Colchester, Cumberland and East Hants.
***This interview was recorded on March 12, 2024.
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| 0:52.1 | I'm here with Dean Whelden, a retired detective chief inspector. |
| 0:57.7 | Remind us what force you were in, Dean? |
| 0:59.8 | Derbyshire Constabulary. |
| 1:01.5 | Derbyshire Constabulary, just a little bit south of the Great Land of Yorkshire. |
| 1:06.2 | So we'll forgive you. |
| 1:07.5 | It's not quite down south, but you're not living there at the moment. |
| 1:10.8 | You're living on what I would call basically the Arctic Circle. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, I retired for a quiet life to rural Nova Scotia and Canada. |
| 1:23.7 | And funny you should say that. Nearly everybody I speak to back in the UK or Europe, or even in America, they believe that Canada is just a frozen wasteland, 12 months a year, and it's just thick ice. |
| 1:35.9 | And it isn't quite like that, but I can tell you, we're still in the depths of a brutal winter, as every winter is, minus 20 in deep snow most of the time until May. |
| 1:46.5 | Let's go back to your early career then, Dean. So was it Derbyshire you joined straight away |
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