 David was appointed as Chief Executive of the Scottish Police Services Authority in December 2006. As Chief Executive he provides leadership and strategic direction for the organisation which delivers Forensic Services, Information Services, the Scottish Police College, Corporate Services and specialist officers and staff for the SCDEA.
Before this posting David was the Deputy Chief Constable of Central Scotland Police. In this role he had specific responsibility for complaints against the police, IT, human resources, finance and corporate development.
In 2001 David went to Rwanda in Africa as part of a team of police officers advising the Rwandan Government on developing a consensual style of policing to replace the para-military system that had operated since the 1994 civil war.
In 2000, David spent six months as a visiting professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, lecturing on comparative legal systems. This is an annual opportunity competitively offered to a superintendent in Britain, by then in its 30th year. David was the first Scottish officer to be successful in being offered the post.
He holds a Law Degree and a Master of Arts Degree from Glasgow University, as well as a post graduate diploma in Criminology from Cambridge University.
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