Pat Gallan
Patricia Ferguson Gallan QPM is a British police officer who is a Deputy Assistant Commissioner with the Metropolitan Police, London. She was previously Assistant Chief Constable (Operations Support) of Merseyside Police since February 2006 and served as Temporary Deputy Chief Constable of the force from October 2009 to February 2010. She is the most senior female ethnic minority police officer in British history.
Gallan was born and raised in Lanarkshire,[1] Scotland and joined the Metropolitan Police as a Constable in 1987. She served in the East End of London, first as a uniformed officer and then with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). In 1997 she trained as a hostage negotiator. She is also a qualified barrister.[1]
In March 2000, as a Detective Superintendent, she was appointed head of the informant unit in the Criminal Intelligence Branch (SO11) at Scotland Yard. She then served as Staff Officer to Deputy Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
In January 2005, she joined the National Crime Squad as Assistant Chief Constable in charge of covert policing and served there until her appointment to Merseyside in 2006. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 2006 New Year Honours.[2]
As of December 2012, she is head of the Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards. She is in charge of Operation Alice, an investigation to look into allegations relating to the "Plebgate" affair.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Top black woman cop is terror chief", The Mirror, 6 October 2007
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 57855. p. 25. 31 December 2005.
- ↑ "'Plebgate': Second man arrested in Metropolitan Police inquiry". BBC News. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2012-12-20.