Derek Penman, QPM, was HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland between January 2014 and March 2018.
[3] Penman joined Central Scotland Police as a cadet in 1982 rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent by 2007.
[7] In 2017, he investigated a Scottish Police Authority officer's departure from her position, who claimed that she was being silenced.
[9] In July 2021, after his retirement in 2018, he was appointed by the Irish Policing Authority to investigate computer-aided dispatch incidents that were incorrectly closed from 2019-20, providing dozens of findings and recommendations.
[10] At this time, he was Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, as well as a professor at the University of Dundee.