Ian Oliver, QPM (24 January 1940 – 8 July 2022) was a British police officer, author, speaker and consultant for the United Nations.
After leaving the Air Force he joined London's Metropolitan Police Service as a constable, working his way up to the rank of Superintendent.
[1] In 1979 he was appointed Chief Constable of Central Scotland Police,[2] a job he held for eleven years until moving to the Grampian force.
[1] In 1998 he took early retirement after a tabloid newspaper published details of his private life,[4] and a report by the Grampian Police Board heavily criticised the force's handling of the investigation into the 1997 murder of Scott Simpson,[5][6] a nine-year-old boy who was murdered by a convicted child sex offender near his Aberdeen home.
[9] His son, Sir Craig Oliver, is a former BBC News executive who was appointed David Cameron's Director of Communications in February 2011, following the resignation of Andy Coulson.