Iain Livingstone
 Sir Iain Livingstone    (solicitor, police officer) | ||||||||||
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| Born | Iain Thomas Livingstone 6 October 1966 | |||||||||
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Sir Iain Livingstone is a Scottish police officer who is currently Chief Constable of Police Scotland. He was named as the next Chief Constable on 15 August 2018 and took up office formally on 27 August 2018.[1]
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Early life
Iain Livingstone graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1988 with a first class Bachelor of Laws degree. During his time as a student at Aberdeen he played association football as a forward for Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also attended the University of Strathclyde before beginning a career as a solicitor.
Police career
Iain Livingstone joined Lothian and Borders Police in 1992, rising swiftly through the ranks and eventually becoming head of that force's CID branch and Assistant Chief Constable for Crime. He graduated with a master's degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, where he studied from 1998 as a Fulbright scholar; he also served secondments as a special investigator with the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, was part of Lord Bonomy's review of corroboration for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, and has sat on the Scottish Sentencing Council.
When Lothian & Borders was amalgamated into the new Police Scotland force in 2013, Livingstone was named Deputy Chief Constable for Crime and operations. After being overlooked for the Chief Constable job when Phil Gormley was appointed as the successor to Stephen House in late 2015, he initially remained part of the force executive but in summer 2017 announced his intention to retire. He then accepted a request to reconsider his decision after several allegations of misconduct were made against Chief Constable Gormley and the latter was placed on special leave; by September 2017 Livingstone was leading the force on an interim basis. When Gormley resigned in February 2018 to contest the allegations, Livingstone became the frontrunner to succeed him formally. The role as Chief Constable from 27 August 2018 carries a four-year term and an annual salary of £216,000.[2]
Staying in Scotland
When Dame Cressida Dick resigned as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in February 2022, Scotland's Chief Constable Iain Livingstone ruled himself out of applying for the top job at The Met. Livingstone had impressed Home Secretary Priti Patel with the way he tackled public order at COP26 in Glasgow, according to a report in The Times.[3]
Murdered in the UK
On 7 December 2022, Lockerbie campaigner Patrick Haseldine wrote this letter:
- Sir Iain Livingstone,
- Chief Constable of Police Scotland,
- 2 Clyde Gateway,
- French Street,
- Glasgow G40 4EH
- Dear Sir Iain,
- BERNT CARLSSON: MURDERED IN THE UK
- Thirty three years ago today, The Guardian published this letter from me:
- "Finger of suspicion"
- "Exactly one year ago, you published my letter suggesting that Mrs Thatcher might have a blind spot as far as South African 'terrorism' is concerned.
- "Fourteen days after publication, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky upon Lockerbie. Of the 270 victims, the most prominent person was the Swede Mr Bernt Carlsson – UN Commissioner for Namibia – whose obituary appeared on page 29 of your December 23, 1988 edition.
- "I cannot be the only puzzled observer of this tragedy to wonder why police attention did not immediately focus on a South African connection. The question to be put (probably to Mrs Thatcher) is: given the South African proclivity to using the diplomatic bag for conveying explosives and the likelihood that the bomb was loaded aboard the aircraft at Heathrow (vide David Pallister, The Guardian, November 9, 1989) why has it taken so long for the finger of suspicion to point towards South Africa?
- "Were police inquiries into Lockerbie subject to any political guidance or imperatives?"[4]
Scotland Yard inquiry
On 28 May 2015, I asked Sir Bernard (now Lord Hogan-Howe) to open a Scotland Yard inquiry into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 (attachment 1).
In June 2018, I created a petition inviting Cressida Dick to open a murder inquiry into the case of Bernt Carlsson (attachment 2).
On 21 November 2022, I repeated the request to Sir Mark Rowley for a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry (attachment 3).
Sir Mark Rowley's office replied on 5 December 2022:
- Dear Mr Haseldine,
- Thank you for getting in touch with the Commissioner.
- I have done some enquiries around this matter and I can confirm that primacy of any investigation remains with Police Scotland in this matter and therefore any enquiries in relation to this matter or request for any action to be taken in light of that should be sent to them directly.
- Kind regards,
- Adam Abdul-Hamid, Inspector, Staff Officer to the Commissioner
- Address New Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JL
Police Scotland inquiry
Accordingly, Sir Iain, could you now please
- Open a Police Scotland inquiry into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103; or,
- Authorise the Metropolitan Police Service to launch a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry.
Yours sincerely,
PS. A copy of this letter goes to Sir Mark Rowley, to South African Judge Christopher Nicholson and to Mindhouse Productions which, on 7 November 2022, was reported to have been commissioned by Sky to make a three-part documentary on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 (attachment 4).
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 | Letter | 17 February 2023 | Patrick Haseldine | Ian Ferguson: "In the early stages of the Lockerbie investigation, Bernt Carlsson's Presikhaaf suitcase was seen as the more likely bomb case. Police sources at the time said that this case was cleared of being the suspect case on November 23rd 1989." |
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