Dee Collins

{{short description|British police officer}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2019}}

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{{Infobox police officer

| name = Dee Collins

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| birth_name = Dionne Marie Collins

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}

| birth_place = Lymm, Cheshire, England

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| education = University of Manchester

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|allegiance = West Yorkshire Police

|service = United Kingdom

|serviceyears = 1987-2019

|rank = Chief Constable

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Dionne Marie "Dee" Collins {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|QPM}} (born 1965) is a British retired police officer, who served as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police from 2016 to 2019. She served a secondment from West Yorkshire Police to the College of Policing where she was Director for the 2019 Strategic Command Course.{{cite news |url= https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/about-us/chief-officer-team/chief-officer-team/chief-constable-dee-collins |title= Chief Constable Dee Collins |work= West Yorkshire Police |date= December 2018 |accessdate= 28 May 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528181612/https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/about-us/chief-officer-team/chief-officer-team/chief-constable-dee-collins |archivedate=28 May 2019 }}{{cite news |url= https://www.policeoracle.com/honours_awards/queens_birthday.html |title= Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013 |work= Police Oracle |author= Unknown |date= 15 June 2013 |accessdate= 28 May 2019}}{{cite news |url= https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3041534 |title= Order of the British Empire |work= The Gazette |author= Unknown |date= 9 June 2018 |accessdate= 28 May 2019}} Due to ill health, having been previously treated for breast cancer, she stepped down as Chief Constable and retired from the police in April 2019.{{cite web |title=Police chief to retire over health issues |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-47668237 |website=BBC News |accessdate=21 June 2019 |date=22 March 2019}}