Rear Admiral Paul Vincent Halton, OBE is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Commander Operations from October 2017 to November 2019.

Halton joined the Royal Navy in September 1987,[1] and went on to serve as commanding officer of the submarine HMS Spartan.

[3] After becoming Flag Officer Sea Training Director (North),[4] he was deployed as Deputy Director of operations in Afghanistan in 2012.

[5] He was posted as in a senior staff officer role at the Ministry of Defence in June 2013 and then became Commodore, Devonport Flotilla in March 2015.

[7] On 17 September 2019, a Jane's report said that Rear Admiral Halton was to hand over the appointment of Commander Operations and to take up the post of Rear Admiral Submarines and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, Submarines later in the year.