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His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland

Agency overview
Type	Inspectorate
Jurisdiction	Scotland
Headquarters	St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, Scotland
Motto	Improving policing across Scotland
Minister responsible	Keith Brown, Cabinet Secretary for Justice
Agency executive	Craig Naylor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland
Parent organisation	Scottish Government
Website	hmics.scot

His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) is a public body of the Scottish Government that reports to the Scottish Parliament. It has statutory responsibility for the inspection of the effectiveness and efficiency of the police service in Scotland.

HMICS is part of a tripartite distribution of powers for accountability for the Scottish police service. The Scottish Government has powers to make regulations for the governance and administration of the police force and the promotion of efficiency. The Scottish Police Authority is responsible for setting the budget and ensuring that best value is attained for the public purse. The chief constable is responsible for operational policing.

The head of the service is HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, held by Craig Naylor since March 2022.

The HMICS is based at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh and had £1.2m of funding allocated by the Scottish Government in 2013–14.

History

HMICS was established by the Police (Scotland) Act 1857.

Until 1 April 2013, HMICS was responsible for inspections of the eight Scottish territorial police forces, the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, the Scottish Criminal Record Office, the Scottish Police College and the Scottish Police Information Strategy.

Until 1 April 2007, HMICS was also responsible for dealing with complaints against the police; since then non-criminal complaints have been dealt with by the Police Complaints Commissioner, following the passing of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006. HMIC has no authority to deal with complaints against chief police officers.

List of chief inspectors

• John Kinloch, 1857–1872
• Charles Carnegie, 1872–1884
• David Monro, 1884–1904
• Arthur George Ferguson, 1904–1927
• William David Allan, 1927–1930
• Robert Maxwell Dudgeon, 1930–1945
• Sidney Anderson Kinnear, 1946–1957
• Thomas Renfrew, 1958–1966
• Andrew Meldrum, 1966–1969
• David Gray, 1970–1979
• Edward Frizzell, 1979–1983
• Alexander Morrison, 1983–1990
• Colin Sampson, 1991–1993
• John MacInnes Boyd, 1993–1996
• William George MacKenzie Sutherland, 1996–1998
• William Taylor, 1999–2001
• Hugh Roy Graham Cameron, 2002–2004
• Andrew Gibson Brown, 2004–2007
• Paddy Tomkins, 2007–2009
• Andrew Laing, 2010–2013
• George Graham, 2013–2014
• Derek Penman, 2014–2018
• Gill Imery, 2018 – March 2022
• Craig Naylor, 2022–present

See also

• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
• Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland
• Public bodies of the Scottish Government

References

1. "Our Team". HMICS - About Us - Our Team. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
2. "National Public Bodies Directory". Edinburgh: Scottish Government. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Text of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

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Punishment	Scottish Prison Service HM Inspectorate of Prisons Order for Lifelong Restriction Parole Board for Scotland Risk Management Authority Fiscal fine Admonition

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