He first moved to South Wales Police in 2010 as an Assistant Chief Constable, rising to become its Chief Constable in January 2018, also being awarded a Queen's Police Medal in the New Year Honours that year. Jukes was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Cardiff University for achieving international distinction.[6] In November 2020 he moved to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as an Assistant Commissioner, succeeding Mark Simmons and initially with a remit for the MPS's transformation programme.[7]