Robert Alan Hunt OBE QPM (6 July 1935 – 15 May 2013) was a senior British police officer.
[2] His father, Peter Hunt, was a Scottish miner who had been awarded the Military Medal during World War I.
[3] In 1946,[1] having done well in his Eleven-Plus exam, he was offered a full scholarship to attend Dulwich College, a public school in southeast London.
[2] During his first briefing at his local Brixton station, he learnt that he had lived alongside many known criminals in the Herne Hill council flats of his youth.
[3] He was involved in the successful ending of the 1975 Balcombe Street Siege and escaped being blown up during a bombing of Madame Tussauds.
He created the Gold (strategic), Silver (tactical) and Bronze (implementation) command structure for policing disorder, which is still in use.
[3] In 1993, he was asked by the commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, to head a radical reorganisation of the Metropolitan Police to create a modern managerial structure and philosophy.
"Following his retirement, he went on to act as an adviser to police forces in Jamaica, Uganda and the British Virgin Islands.