Entry No. 659LawUnited Kingdom
Alf Hitchcockchief constable and national police lead on knife crime
He shared his name with the director of Psycho while serving as British policing’s national spokesman on knife crime.
- Trade
- chief constable and national police lead on knife crime
- Field
- Law
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Attached to
- Association of Chief Police Officers; Ministry of Defence Police
- Dates
- 1958–2017
Checked
Cited as a nominative determinism case by New Scientist’s Feedback column and by Wikipedia. The fit rests on a famous namesake rather than on the meaning of the surname, so it is scored as wordplay rather than semantic. Born Alfred Henry Hitchcock; served as Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner, then chief constable of Bedfordshire and of the Ministry of Defence Police. Restored after an earlier dedupe pass wrongly merged him with the film director.