In 1906 Chitham joined the
Indian Police, and by December 1912 he was an Officer of the
Central Provinces Police at
Nagpur. By 1915 he was an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Central Provinces, and in April 1915 was posted to
Port Blair as 3rd Assistant Superintendent in the
Andaman and Nicobar Police. In 1926 Chitham was promoted from District Police Superintendent to Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Crime, and Railways, in the Central Provinces. In 1931 he was appointed as Inspector-General of Police for the Central Provinces, was
knighted in 1936, and was Federal Public Service Commissioner at Delhi in 1937 and 1939. Returning to Britain, he served as
Acting Inspector of Constabulary for the South West Region of England from 1940 to 1945. and his father, Samuel Chitham, died there in May 1932. In England Chitham settled at the Old Rectory,
Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, In 1945 he became a
Justice of the Peace and appointed as a governor of
Dauntsey's School. On 6 July 1961, as chairman of the Wiltshire Standing Committee, he laid the foundation stone of the new
Wiltshire Police headquarters at
Devizes. Chitham's older sister, Isabel, died unmarried while living with him in Wiltshire in 1963. Chitham died in 1972. A small housing development at Great Cheverell is named "Chitham Close" in his memory. ==Honours==