Gilbert Kelland

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Gilbert James Kelland

QPM (17 March 1924 – 30 August 1997) was a British police officer in the Metropolitan Police in London
.

Kelland grew up in

to study American law enforcement on a Ford Fellowship.

By 1971 he had been promoted

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1978 Birthday Honours[12] and retired in 1984. He was British representative to Interpol
from 1977 to 1984.

He wrote Crime in London, published in 1986–1987. Kelland was an enthusiastic

freemason and a founder member in 1986 of the Manor of St James, a lodge which was solely for Metropolitan Police officers who had worked in the West End of London.[13]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Woman's Earnings: Counsel on 'Millionaire' Class", The Times, 15 October 1958
  2. ^ "Police watch on house", The Times, 1 April 1959
  3. ^ "Magistrate's doubt on importuning", The Times, 10 July 1959
  4. ^ "Woolf Not Maltreated at Police Station", The Times, 26 March 1964
  5. ^ "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1974. p. 31.
  6. ^ "Police corruption inquiry refused", The Times, 7 March 1975
  7. ^ "Policemen may be charged after pornography inquiry", The Times, 9 June 1975
  8. ^ "Former Yard chiefs face corruption charges", The Times, 1 March 1976
  9. ^ "Black diary dominated trail of ex-Yard men", The Times, 8 July 1977
  10. ^ "Commissioner McNee, making his mark as the new man of action", The Times, 21 September 1977
  11. ^ "No. 47171". The London Gazette. 11 March 1977. p. 3437.
  12. ^ "No. 47549". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1978. p. 6236.
  13. ^ The Guardian, 29 January 1997

References

  • Biography,
    Who Was Who
Police appointments
Preceded by Assistant Commissioner "C", Metropolitan Police
1977–1984
Succeeded by