Andrew Meldrum,
CBE
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KPM (22 April 1909 – 10 January 1995) was
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland
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from 1966 to 1969.
Meldrum was educated at Burntisland Higher Grade School and joined the
Stirlingshire Constabulary in 1927. He was appointed
Deputy Chief Constable of
Inverness Burgh Police in 1943 and
Chief Constable in 1946. He was
Chief Constable of the
Angus Constabulary
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from 1949 to 1955; and then of
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from 1955 to 1966.
['MELDRUM, Andrew', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201]
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1909 births
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