Education
Having attended Leeds Grammar School, Wheatley read law at the University of Sheffield, immediately joining the Prison Service as an officer in 1969 on graduation.
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Career
He worked in a variety of prisons before becoming Governor of Her Majesty Prison Hull in 1986. In 1990, he moved to headquarters, where he held a variety of operational management jobs. On 1 March 2003, he was appointed Director-General of Her Majesty Prison Service, the first Director-General to have previously been a prison officer
On 1 April 2008, the Prison Service was merged with the National Probation Service to create the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which he subsequently led as Director-General.
On 14 June 2004, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank) on the Queen"s Birthday Honours list. He retired in June 2010.
Jack Straw, Justice Minister during Wheatley"s time as Director General of NOMS, praised him as "an extraordinarily dedicated individual" with "a record of public service that is second to none". Wheatley has since taken up employment as consultant to G4S, which operates prisons and justice services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
His successor is Michael Spurr who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NOMS. Philosophy Wheatley is married with two children.
1969-1970 Officer, Hatfield borstal, Her Majesty Prison Leeds;
1970-1974 Assistant governor, Her Majesty Prison Hull;
1974-1978 Training specialist, Her Majesty Prison Service College;
1978-1982 Assistant governor, Her Majesty Prison Leeds;
1982-1986 Deputy governor, Her Majesty Prison Gartree, Leicestershire;
1986-1990 Governor, Her Majesty Prison Hull;
1990-1992 Her Majesty Prison Service East Midlands area manager;
1992-1995 Assistant Director of Custody, Her Majesty Prison Service;
1995–1999 Director of Dispersals (in charge of six highest security jails);
1998–2003 Deputy Director-General, Her Majesty Prison Service;
2003–2008 Director-General, Her Majesty Prison Service;
2008–2010 Director-General, National Offender Management Service.
