He was awarded the Silver General Medal and vote of thanks as Inspector from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society for stopping a runaway horse attached to a wagon in No 2 Alexander Dock. He was also awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Silver and Bronze Medal with Certificate for efficient performance of duty in effecting the rescue of a man who had fallen into Canada Dock. He was then also commended four times by the Liverpool Watch Committee and three times by HM Customs.

During this time, apart from other duties he was responsible for conducting Police prosecutions in the Magistrates Court and while he held this position he won commendation for his sound knowledge of the law and his ability to apply it with intelligence and tact.

E Division, in which he was Divisional Inspector, consisted at the time of a residential and industrial area and dock land with a population of over 200,000 and was policed by 40 Sergeants, 375 Constables, 200 Special Constables and 100 War Reserve Constables. Also in his Division were 60 fully manned Civil Defence Posts and two Report and Command Centres with personnel of over 1200.

He was appointed Chief Constable of the Hyde Borough Force aged 45 on the 1st April 1943. During his two years as Chief constable of Hyde he received the Silver Meritorious Service medal and framed Certificate from the Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSPCA (the highest decoration that the Society can bestow) for his devoted service to animal welfare in affecting the rescue of a number of cattle from a ship which was severely damaged during enemy fire while he was an Inspector in Liverpool City Police. He also received from King George V1 the honour of being a serving Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

In January 1945 he was seconded to the Allied Control Commission, Germany, to help reorganise the German Police. Members of the German Police had been asked to volunteer during WW2 to act as murder squads known as Einsatzgruppen with the special charge of executing Jews and other targeted groups. Quite a number of these men had managed to get back into the German Police after the war.

Part of the Allied Control Commission's assignment was to bring these men to trial; in all 1700 were arrested but only 370 were charged with any offence.

In 1950 he left the Allied Control Commission and took up an appointment as Commissioner of Police in Kingstown, Jamaica, where he was to remain for several years, returning to Britain in January 1957. On his return he had a six-month break but could not settle and took a position with Lever brothers as a Security Consultant.

In February 1962 he was admitted to Bootle General Hospital, where he passed away, leaving a wife and daughter. He had been the last Chief Constable of Hyde, as Hyde Borough Police merged with Cheshire Constabulary after his departure from that Force.