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Joanna Farrell (born September 1968 [1]) is a British police officer, and current Chief Constable of Police Scotland. On 14 June 2023, it was announced that she had been appointed as Police Scotland's first female Chief Constable. She replaced Sir Iain Livingstone, who retired in August 2023. [2]
Karen Ross Findlay LVO KPM (born 1968) is a Scottish police officer, rugby coach and former international player who played for the Scotland women's national rugby union team. She coaches Harlequins Ladies who compete in the Women's Premiership. She won 85 caps for Scotland and captained the side 52 times.
In England and Wales, 31.2% (40,319) of police officers were female on 31 March 2020. Previously, policewomen made up 28.6% in March 2016, [2] and 23.3% in 2007. [2] Women also make up a majority of the non-sworn police staff. Notable women in British police forces include Cressida Dick, the former commissioner (chief) of the Metropolitan ...
MacDonald worked with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency as a detective chief inspector, as an Area Commander at Gorbals, where she set up the Govanhill Hub, [2] [3] and in CID. While Assistant Chief Constable of Major Crime and Public Protection, she introduced a 'get consent' campaign [4] to raise awareness of date rape.
Dick was born on 16 October 1960 in Oxford, where she was brought up. [1] [10] She is the third and youngest child of Marcus William Dick (1920–1971), [11] Senior Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, [12] and Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, [13] and Cecilia Rachel Dick (née Buxton, 1927–1995), [11] a University of Oxford historian, daughter of Wing Commander Denis ...
In 2016, the Scottish Government cut direct funding to drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes from £69.2 million to £53.8 million – a drop of 22%. [238] [239] At the time, Scottish Drugs Forum Chief Executive David Liddell said he was concerned that the cuts had "the potential to increase harm and drug-related deaths."
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Pauline Clare becomes the UK's first female Chief Constable 1999: Most police powers and functions in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Parliament as a result of the Scotland Act 1998. 1999: The MacPherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence describes the Metropolitan Police Service as "institutionally racist". 2001-2005