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His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland was established by the Police (Scotland) Act 1857.

List of Chief Inspectors:

Name

Years

Colonel John Kinloch

1857-1872

Charles Carnegie

1872-1884

David Monro

1884-1904

Arthur Ferguson

1904-1927

William Allan

1927-1930

Robert Dudgeon

1930-1945

Sidney Kinnear

1946-1957

Thomas Renfrew

1958-1966

Andrew Meldrum

1966-1969

David Gray

1970-1979

Edward Frizzell

1979-1983

Alexander Morrison

1983-1988

Robert Sim

1988-1989

Colin Sampson

1990-1992

John Boyd

1993-1996

William Sutherland

1996-1998

William Taylor

1999-2001

Hugh Cameron

2002-2004

Andrew Brown

2004-2007

Paddy Tomkins

2007-2009

Bill Skelly

2009-2010

Andrew Laing

2010-2013

George Graham

2013-2014

Derek Penman

2014-2018

Gill Imery

2018-2022

Craig Naylor

2022-

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