William Sutherland (police officer)

Sir William George MacKenzie Sutherland, CBE, QPM (born 12 November 1933) was a senior British police officer.[1]

He was educated at Inverness Technical High School and joined the Cheshire Police in 1954. He also served with the Surrey Police (1973–1975) and Hertfordshire Police (1975 to 1979. He was Chief Constable of Bedfordshire from 1979 to 1983; and of Lothian and Borders Police from 1983[2] to 1996. He was HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland from 1996 to 1998.

Notes

  1. ‘SUTHERLAND, Sir William (George MacKenzie)’, 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
  2. New chief constable. The Times (London, England), Saturday, May 14, 1983; pg. 10; Issue 61532
Police appointments
Preceded by
John MacInnes Boyd
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland
19961998
Succeeded by
William Taylor
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