Fife chief constable to retire after 34 years’ service

THE chief constable of Fife Constabulary has announced she is to retire from the police.

Norma Graham, 49, who was Scotland’s first female chief constable, said she would retire in August after 34 years in Scottish policing.

She joined Lothian and Borders Police as a cadet in 1978 and rose to the rank of detective chief superintendent in charge of criminal investigation.

During the early part of her career, she undertook a number of uniformed and specialist roles, including head of the drug squad.

She was made assistant chief constable in Central Scotland Police in 2002, and in 2005 she was appointed strategic gold commander for the G8 summit of world leaders held at Gleneagles, Perthshire.

She moved to Fife as deputy chief constable and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2008, the year she was promoted to chief constable. She said yesterday: “It has been an absolute honour to serve the communities of Fife.”

Ms Graham was involved in a head-on car crash in Glenrothes on 7 February.