The Police Service of Northern Ireland,is the police service responsible for law enforcement and the prevention of crime within Northern Ireland.
Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde,is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),representing the 44 police forces of England,Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009,he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Freddie Scappaticci was an Irish IRA member named in the Kenova report as a British Intelligence mole with the codename Stakeknife.
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary was the territorial police force responsible for Dumfries and Galloway,Scotland until 1 April 2013.
David James Reid Strang is a former senior police officer and public servant from Scotland. He has worked in a number of senior roles in the criminal justice sector,most notably as Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland.
Sir John Henry Orr was a Scottish police officer and was the first Chief Constable of the Lothian and Borders Police. He was also a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Sir Kenneth Lloyd Jones is a British former police officer. He was a Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia,former President of Association of Chief Police Officers for England,Wales and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom and Senior Investigator of Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. Sir Ken Jones is a former President of Association of Chief Police Officers and presently defence &security advisor at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2000 and was knighted for services to policing in 2009.
James Gamble,is a British former police officer and head of Belfast region for the now disbanded RUC Special Branch.
Sir Matthew David Baggott,is a retired senior British police officer. He was Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2014.
William Alan Skelly was the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police in England. Skelly joined Devon and Cornwall Police from the Police Service of Scotland in December 2013 where he had been Silver Commander for Safety and Security for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Police Scotland,officially the Police Service of Scotland,is the national police force of Scotland. It was formed in 2013,through the merging of eight regional police forces in Scotland,as well as the specialist services of the Scottish Police Services Authority,including the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. Although not formally absorbing it,the merger also resulted in the winding down of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland.
Simon Byrne,is an English former senior police officer. He served as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from July 2019 until he resigned in September 2023. He was the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police from 2009 to 2011 and the Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing in the Metropolitan Police Service from 2011 to 2014. He then served as Chief Constable of Cheshire Constabulary from 2014 to 2017.
Sir George Ernest Craythorne Hamilton is a Northern Ireland retired police officer. From 2014 to 2019,he served as the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He was previously the Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for rural policing.
Philip Michael Christopher Gormley,is a British former senior police officer. He is the current CEO for EACH based in Norfolk,England.
Events from the year 2018 in Scotland.
Rodney Maibam Hansen is a British police officer.
Operation Kenova is an ongoing criminal investigation into whether the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland failed to investigate as many as 18 murders in order to protect a high level double agent codenamed Stakeknife who worked for the Force Research Unit,while at the same time he was deeply embedded and trusted within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The investigation started in 2017,headed up by Jon Boutcher the former Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police until his appointment as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2023. It is now led by Iain Livingstone,former Chief Constable of Police Scotland.
Events from the year 2023 in Northern Ireland.
William James Kerr,,is a Northern Irish police officer,serving as Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police.
Jon Boutcher QPM is a senior British police officer. He was appointed as Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 7 November 2023. He served as interim Chief Constable from 12 October 2023 whilst the recruitment process was ongoing to appoint someone permanently. He was the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police from 2015 until April 2019. He also leads Operation Kenova,a series of historical investigations into murders which occurred during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
