John Boyd (police officer)

John MacInnes Boyd CBE QPM[1] (born 14 October 1933) was HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland from 1993 to 1996.[2]

He was with the Paisley Burgh Police from 1956 to 1967, the Renfrew and Bute Constabulary from 1967 to 1975 and Strathclyde Police from 1975 to 1984. He was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary from 1984 to 1989;[3] and President of the ACPO from 1988 to 1989. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland in 1989[4] and four years later became its head.

Notes

  1. Herald Scotsman
  2. ‘BOYD, John MacInnes’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 27 May 2016
  3. Evening Times (Glasgow)
  4. News in brief The Times (London, England), Thursday, June 01, 1989; pg. 2; Issue 63409.
Police appointments
Preceded by
Colin Sampson
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland
19931996
Succeeded by
William Sutherland
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