Michael Frederick Lockwood (born 6 February 1959)[1] is a British former civil servant who has served in local government and as inaugural director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the policing watchdog for England and Wales.
Lockwood was the CEO of Harrow London Borough Council from 2007 until the end of 2013, when the position was eliminated, and again from 2015 after it was reinstituted.
[2] In the interim, he was executive director of finance and policy at the Local Government Association.
[3] After the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, he led recovery work and liaised with survivors and victims' families.
In October 2019 Lockwood published an op-ed in The Guardian, defending an investigation his organization had performed into the case of an alleged VIP paedophile ring.