{{short description|British police officer and former Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary}} {{primary sources|date=December 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Sir Richard Barratt |honorific_suffix = CBE QPM |image_size = |image = |caption = |order = |office = Chief Inspector of Constabulary |term_start = 1987 |term_end = 1990 |predecessor = Lawrence Byford |successor = John Woodcock |office1 = Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police |term_start1 = 1975 |term_end1 = 1978 |predecessor1 = Position Established |successor1 = James Hilton Brownlow |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|8|11}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2013|5|5|1928|8|5}} |death_place = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |profession = Police officer }} '''Sir Richard Stanley Barratt''', CBE, QPM (11 August 1928 – 5 May 2013) was chief inspector of constabulary from 1987 to 1990.<ref>‘Barratt, Sir Richard (Stanley)’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, November 2015 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9758, accessed 14 May 2016]</ref>
==Education==
Barratt was educated at Saltley Grammar School.<ref>[http://www.saltleyschoolarchives.co.uk/ Alumni web-site]</ref>
==Career==
He joined Birmingham City Police in 1949, rising to become chief inspector. He was with Cheshire Police from 1965 to 1966 (superintendent to chief superintendent); and with the Manchester Force from 1967 to 1975 (assistant chief constable to deputy chief constable). He was chief constable of South Yorkshire Police from 1975 to 1978 when he joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/about-us/who-we-are/previous-chief-inspectors/ |title=HMIC Profile |access-date=14 May 2016 |archive-date=5 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605133519/https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/about-us/who-we-are/previous-chief-inspectors/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Awards== He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1973. He was appointed a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, and was knighted in 1984.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49696 |date=2 April 1984 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref>
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;" |- style="background:silver;" align="center" |Ribbon || Description || Notes |- |40px || Knight Bachelor (Kt) || * 1988 |- |40px || Order of the British Empire (CBE) || * 1981 * Commander * Civil Division |- |40px || Queen's Police Medal (QPM) || * 1974 |- |40px || Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal || |- |}
==Private life== In 1952 he married Sarah Elizabeth Hale: they had one son and two daughters, two granddaughters and two grandsons.
==References== <references/>
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