Joseph Anthony Peacocke, CBE (1 September 1908 – 12 November 1975), was a police officer in the United Kingdom.
[1] His brother was Cuthbert Peacocke, a future Dean of Belfast who was later to succeed their father as Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.
Peacocke was educated at Sedbergh School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied natural sciences.
[5] During the increasingly violent period in Northern Ireland in 1969, Peacocke initially resisted the deployment of the British Army,[6] but he changed his view following a telephone call from Graham Shillington, the Deputy Inspector-General, early on the morning of 13 August.
[7] The extent of disorder in Northern Ireland at that time prompted the commissioning of the Hunt Report,[8] which was published in October 1969.