David Gray (police officer)

David Gray, CBE, QPM (18 November 1914 – 28 December 1999) was HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland from 1970 to 1979.

Gray was educated at Preston Grammar School. He joined the Renfrew and Bute Constabulary^[1] and progressed steadily upwards. He was Chief Constable of the Greenock Burgh Police from 1955 to 1958 where he was an early advocaste of Community Policing.^[2] He was the Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Chief Constables Association from 1958 to 1969;^[3] by Louise A. Jackson, Angela Bartie and Chief of the Stirling and Clackmannan force from 1958 to 1969.^[4]

Notes

1. Herald Scotland
2. "Handbook of Policing" Newburn, T p193: Abingdon-on-Thames, Taylor & Francis, 2008 ISBN 978-1-84392-323-7
3. "Policing Youth: Britain, 1945–70" Jackson, L/Bartie, A p85: Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7190-81781
4. 'GRAY, David', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 24 May 2016

Police appointments
Preceded by Andrew Meldrum	HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland 1970–1979	Succeeded by Edward Frizzell