Percy Sillitoe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe KBE (18881962) was director general (DG), the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1946 to 1953.

He is credited with breaking the power of the notorious Glasgow gangs. He was Chief constable from 1931-43 and went on to head MI5.

Government offices
Preceded by
Sir David Petrie
Director general of MI5
1946 - 1953
Succeeded by
Sir Dick White


Crime bio stubThis United Kingdom biographical article related to crime is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
In other languages