Helen Ball QPM (born April 1961) is a retired senior British police officer.
She then transferred to become Thames Valley Police Assistant Chief Constable, leading on Crime and Criminal Justice,[6] and remained there for two years before returning to the Met as Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing.
[7] In March 2019, Ball chaired a disciplinary hearing of PC Terry Malka, convicted of outraging public decency by masturbating while traveling on a train, which decided to issue a final written warning rather than sacking him.
[8] In December 2021, after a coroner's hearing into the 2014–15 murders by Stephen Port, Ball admitted that "a number of recent events" had damaged trust in the Metropolitan Police.
[9] Later that month 2021 Ball chaired a misconduct panel which dismissed Jamie Rayner, a police constable already jailed for assaulting and strangling his partner during a 'controlling and coercive' relationship.