Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe's career in policing started in Avon and Somerset Police, where she rose from being a neighbourhood PC to becoming one of the country’s most senior female officers.

During her 25 year career with Avon and Somerset Police, she led on development of a Regional Organised Crime Unit and Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit in the South West, a bi-force Major Crime Investigation Team, and a tri-force response to roads policing, firearms and dogs alongside Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Police forces.

She is passionate about diversity and equality issues and, as Head of CID in Avon and Somerset, helped increase representation of women officers in top crime fighting posts.  In the West Midlands she actively sponsored the development of a more diverse workforce

AC Rolfe joined West Midlands Police as Deputy Chief Constable in February 2016.  Her role with the force was to lead operational business and oversee the force’s WMP2020 innovation and change programme.  WMP2020 featured 33 individual projects designed to make the force more agile when fighting crime and more accessible to the public.

In June 2020 she joined the Metropolitan Police Service as Assistant Commissioner Met Operations with responsibility for major events including large scale protests, Notting Hill Carnival, HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and state funeral.  In October 2022 she moved to AC Frontline Policing with responsibility for Boroughs and Specialist Crime. She was instrumental in development of the New Met for London plan, led on the MPS’s response to Violence against Women and Girls and worked with colleagues to deliver improvements in the response to child exploitation, neighbourhood policing and volume crime investigations, enabling the Met to effectively address HMICFRS recommendations.

In November 2024 she took on her current role to lead for policing on the Government’s plans for reform.  Within a joint team with the Home Office she is working to ensure reform achieves our collective ambition across the policing system.

AC Rolfe has been the National Police Chief’s Council lead for Domestic Abuse since 2013. She led the UK police response to HMIC’s report Everyone’s Business – focused on improving the response to domestic abuse – urging forces to prioritise domestic abuse and securing substantial improvements across the service. Her work in this area was recognised in the 2019 New Year’s Honours being awarded an OBE. Louisa Rolfe is the NPCC Lead for National Crime Coordination Committee.