Justice Sub-Committee on Policing

Meeting date: Thursday, March 21, 2013

Official Report 263KB pdf

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Interests

Welcome to the first meeting of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing in 2013. As the oldest member present—something in which I take no joy—I am required to chair the first meeting until a convener is chosen. Please switch off mobile phones and other electronic devices completely, as they interfere with the broadcasting system, even when switched to silent.

Under the first item on the agenda, I invite members to declare any interests that are relevant to the remit of the sub-committee. I remind members that a declaration should be brief but sufficiently detailed to make clear the nature of the interest.

I have a list that I will read out. I am a former police officer; I am a former full-time official of the Scottish Police Federation; I am the recipient of a police pension; I am a former member of a police appeals tribunal; and I am a member of the Highlands and Islands branch of the Retired Police Officers Association.

I am a former police officer, a former member of the Scottish Police Federation and a former member of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, and I advise the private sector from time to time on the handling of information and intelligence.

As everybody is declaring former interests, I should declare that I am a former member of Grampian joint police board—the longest-serving member in that board’s history.

As you have said several times before.

I should perhaps add that I am a former member of the northern joint police board.