Philip Brown, the Senior Traffic Commissioner and the Traffic Commissioner for the South Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area, will retire with effect from October 2.
Philip Brown is currently on “special leave” and Beverley Bell is acting as Deputy Senior Traffic Commissioner.
Beverley Bell will continue in this role pending the appointment of the next Senior Traffic Commissioner. The DfT said arrangements were in place to ensure Traffic Commissioner duties are fulfilled in the South East until a new full-time Commissioner is recruited.
Philip Brown was appointed DTC in the Eastern Traffic Area in August 1990, and became full-time Western TC in May 2000. He took up his additional appointment of Senior Traffic Commissioner in March 2003 and transferred to the South Eastern and Metropolitan Area in May 2007. In November 2008 he was appointed the first Statutory Senior Traffic Commissioner.
Brown is also a member of the Law Society, the Magistrates’ Association, the Justices’ Clerks’ Society and the Chartered Fellow of theInstituteofLogisticsand Transport.