Andrew Laing (born 9 August 1963, in

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) was

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from 2010 to 2013. He was educated at

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and

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. He was with the

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from 1982 to 2004; and the

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from 2004 to 2010, finishing with the rank of Deputy Chief Constable. After his time as Chief Inspector of Constabulary he was

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of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre from 2011 to 2015.‘LAING, Andrew’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Nov 201
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