Angus Macpherson, Wiltshire’s 61-year-old Police and Crime Commissioner, taken to hospital with a heart condition almost six weeks ago, is making a phased return to work.
Mr Macpherson was taken ill during a meeting in Trowbridge with Dr Andrew Murrison, Tory MP for South West Wiltshire, at the end of May, and taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
He has since been convalescing at home in Wroughton following discharge from hospital – he has had a pacemaker fitted — but has been kept fully briefed by senior officers about the fatal stabbing in Swindon last week of Aulton ‘Tom’ Rogers.
And he has had a meeting in Devizes with his team of top officers, at the same time signing a collaboration agreement under which four forces — Wiltshire, Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, and Dorset — will have a joint forensics service.
Now he is to return to work for two days a week in an arrangement to be reviewed after month, and told Marlborough News Online: “I am very pleased to be back in my office”.
“I would like to acknowledge the fine work done by my staff and Wiltshire Police in my absence. On a personal note I would like to thank the many people who have sent their best wishes. I received excellent care from hospital staff and I have had a pacemaker fitted.
“There is much that I want to do, but I will have to follow doctor’s orders.”
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