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, 18571872 Charles Carnegie, 18721884 David Monro, 18841904 Arthur George Ferguson, 19041927 William David Allan, 19271930 Robert Maxwell Dudgeon, 19301945 Sidney Anderson Kinnear, 19461957 Thomas Renfrew, 19581966 Andrew Meldrum, 19661969 David Gray, 19701979 Edward Frizzell, 19791983 Alexander Morrison, 19831990 Colin Sampson, 19911993 John MacInnes Boyd, 19931996 William George MacKenzie Sutherland, 19961998 William Taylor, 19992001 Hugh Roy Graham Cameron, 20022004 Andrew Gibson Brown, 20042007 Paddy Tomkins, 20072009 Andrew Laing, 20102013 George Graham, 20132014 Derek Penman, 20142018 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
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