In our best Taggart voice, it’s maybe a tad dramatic but hey we wanted your attention to tell you that on the 7th February 2025, the Scottish Senior Investigating Officers Conference was held at Dunblane Hydro.
This was the first Senior Investigative Officers conference in a number of years, and was held on the 6th and 7th February.
The two-day conference brought together 200 delegates from across the SIO network, including key representation from our law enforcement partners throughout the UK. The conference saw a number of inputs from Police Scotland SIOs, and sponsors.
During the evening reception a charity raffle was held and the decision was made that the proceeds of which were to be kindly donated to the SPBF.
Our Chair, Ricky Wood, attended the event on behalf of the Charity to receive the cheque and this was presented by another fantastic fund raiser for the Charity and Police Scotland’s youngest Deputy Chief Constable, Anthony Green. The most senior in rank at the event in fact!! (technically ….).
Many of you will know DDC Green as our intrepid fund raiser from last year who toured almost every Police Station in Scotland raising funds on behalf of our Charity. DCC Green may be small in stature but he packs a punch when it comes to getting people to dig deep into their pockets to raise money for a good cause! As always he was accompanied by his trusted and loyal personal bodyguard, William the Enforcer (otherwise known as dad 😉)
Our picture shows the cheque for £1,240 being presented to our Chair by DCC Green in his High Vis jacket, along with ACC Steve Johnson, Major Crime, Public Protection & Local Crime; and DCS Paul Livingstone, Head of Major Crime.
DDC Green was also presented with a certificate of achievement on behalf of the SSIO Management acknowledging his outstanding work in supporting the Scottish Police Benevolent Fund.
Detective Sgt Judith Northin one of the conference organisation team stated-
“We appreciate the efforts of the SPBF who work tirelessly to provide assistance and support to Police Scotland officers, their families, and communities; and we hope that this contribution can go a little way towards helping this continue.”
On behalf of all at SPBF, we would like to thank DDC Green and all the officers and sponsors who attended the SSIO Conference and raised funds on our behalf.
