David Lyle

Head of Recruitment, Lothian & Borders Police

He was born and educated in Edinburgh and, after graduating with an Honours degree in Music, from the University, worked as a teacher of music in a large comprehensive school in the city. Having had a life-long interest in the Police, and after serving ten years as a Special Constable, he joined Lothian & Borders in 1982. He was accepted onto the then Accelerated Promotion Scheme and became a Sergeant in 1986, working in operational and specialist roles in Edinburgh.

In 1995, he was awarded a post-graduate MSc in Social and Public Policy, from the University of Edinburgh, and, in 1998, was promoted to Inspector and took up an operational post in the Scottish Borders. David returned to Headquarters four years later, to work in the Career Development Branch. He moved to his present position, as Head of Recruiting, in August 2005.

Inspector Lyle has been known as a gay man since 1990 and involved with the Gay Police Association since 1995, when, as the only Scottish officer in the Association, he was appointed Scottish Co-ordinator. Since then, the work of the GPA has moved at an ever-increasing pace and he now has Force Co-coordinators in Lothian and Borders, Strathclyde, Tayside and Grampian Police, and membership, police and support staff, in all eight Scottish Forces.

 

 

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