George Albert Esson (b. 30 March 1942, d. 13 July 2022) was Assistant Chief Constable of

Grampian Police Grampian Police was, between 1975 and 2013 (replaced by Police Scotland), the territorial police force of the northeast region of Scotland, covering the council areas of Aberdeenshire, the City of Aberdeen, and Moray (the former Grampian region) ...

and Chief Constable of

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary was the territorial police force responsible for Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland until 1 April 2013. The police force was formed in 1948 as an amalgamation of the police forces of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshi ...

(1989-1994). He was at the centre of major inquiries into the

Piper Alpha Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea approximately north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited (OPCAL) and began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but la ...

disaster and the 1986 Chinook Helicopter Crash. He also headed the police investigation into the

Lockerbie Bombing Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by ''Clipper Maid of the Seas'', a Boeing ...

. He is a graduate of the

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. After retiring from the Police, he worked for

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as a security and external affairs advisor and led their response to the

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protests at the decommissioning of the

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oil facility in the

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. He was appointed

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in the

1994 Birthday Honours Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday. Publication dates vary from year to year. Most are published in supplements to the ''London Gazette'' and many are formally conferred by the monarch (or ...

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20111003185235/http://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/newsdetails.aspx?NewsArticleID=6137&imgID=1 * http://www.platform-oilandgas.com/newsdetail.lasso?section=Speaking%20Out&issue=97&issue_date=May%202007 * https://web.archive.org/web/20120316003642/http://www.abdn.ac.uk/alumni/events/month.php?month=November&year=2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Esson, George 1942 births Living people Alumni of the University of Aberdeen British Chief Constables Scottish recipients of the Queen's Police Medal Commanders of the Order of the British Empire