Gordon Halland

Colonel Gordon Herbert Ramsay Halland CIE OBE (13 April 1888 – 28 March 1981) was a career British police officer, who served in India, Ireland, UK, Sri Lanka and Germany.

John Thomas Halland (1857–1941), the vicar of Witham on the Hill and subsequently the rector of Blyborough, Lincolnshire, and Amy née Ramsay (1857–1939).

In 1916 he married Helen Claudine Blanche, daughter of Major-General John McNeill Walter, adjutant-general in India.

In August 1938 he was appointed Inspector of Constabulary for southern England and almost immediately was preoccupied with the preparations for wartime police duties, which accelerated with the Munich crisis the next month.

In September 1944 the Home Office recommended he be appointed the director of public safety for the Allied Control Council for Germany, responsible for setting up and restructuring the country's police force.