Robert John Beckley MStJ QPM is a senior British police officer and the High Sheriff of Somerset.

Since November 2016 he has been seconded as an Assistant Commissioner from the Metropolitan Police to the Home Office to head the Command Team of Operation Resolve, the investigation into the Hillsborough disaster.

[3] He spent four years working in development and education in Africa before joining the police.

[1][4] He was then promoted to Assistant Chief Constable just before moving to head Territorial Operations (and later Crime and Operations) in Hertfordshire Police (2002–2007) then to become Deputy Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police (2007–2016).

[1] In parallel with these posts he also held the national portfolio for citizens in policing and later for counter-terrorism and matters of race and faith.