POLICE & CRIME. TALK TITLES

Hotel Jardín Tecina offered to all their guests talk titles about police & crime by Mr. Ian MacDonald .

Ian MacDonald is a retired Assistant Chief Constable. He joined the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary in 1971 and was a police officer for 31 years.

TALK TITLES

Three talk titles  the next  26 , 28 and 30 of january at 20:30 in Bar Salón, Hotel Jardín Tecina La Gomera.              

1. The McCrae Chronicles.

Tales of the eccentric Inspector Arthur 'Kipper Fillets' McCrae and his enduring feud with his unruly sergeants and constables in the Liverpool City of the 1970s.

2. Chief Constables I have known.

Ian's highly personalised account of what it was like to work for some of the most demanding Chief Constables on the last and current centuries, how some of them fell from grace, and how others have remained in place..

3. The Toxteth Riots.

How they came about, and what happened during and after them.

Ian MacDonald currently works as an Intelligence Lead for Immigration and Enforcement in the Home Office.the Border Agency. During his time in the Police he experienced the Toxteth Riots, the Miners’ Farmers’ and Dockers’ disputes and terrorist threats to the Liverpool Docks and the Grand National. He was a commander for operations against Liverpool’s notorious organised crime teams and for football at Liverpool and Everton and Rugby League at St Helens . In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was seconded as an advisor to the Jamaican Government, and he monitored the South African Police in Kwa Zulu during the election of Nelson Mandela. He has also worked for the Foreign Office on combating corruption in Uruguay and developing community policing in Venezuela. Ian has undertaken comparative policing studies in the Caribbean, USA, Europe, South Africa and Latin America.

As head of professional development for the Police Staff College he prepared many the current generation of Chief Constables in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth for their roles. Since retiring from the Police he has worked as a crime reduction and IT consultant, a tutor for the Open University, a board member for the Merseyside Probation Trust and as the Chair of Crimestoppers for Merseyside.

He has appeared on TV and spoken on radio on a range of policing issues and appeared in the BBC 4 program 'Scousers Telling Jokes.’ Ian is a prolific author, and Chief Constable Tim Hollis of the Northumbria Police recently recommended his articles in ‘Police Professional’ to his colleagues for the quality of their ‘history, observation and humour.’