Peter Ewen Brodie

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

QPM (6 May 1914 – 7 September 1989) was a British police officer. Brodie was born at Lethen, Nairnshire and educated at

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. He joined the

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in London in 1934, serving as a uniformed officer and later in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Between 1943 and 1947 he was seconded to the Ceylon Police. In 1949 he was appointed Chief Constable of Stirling and Clackmannan Police in his native Scotland. He was appointed

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(OBE) in the 1954 Birthday Honours. In 1958 he returned to England as Chief Constable of Warwickshire Constabulary. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 1963 Birthday Honours. In February 1964 he was appointed one of HM Inspectors of Constabulary for England and Wales. Brodie returned to the Metropolitan Police in April 1966 as Assistant Commissioner "C", in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence and the Executive Committee of Interpol from 1967 to 1970. Regarded as a tough "hard-liner", he took early retirement in 1972 two years before reaching his sixtieth birthday and the day before the more liberal Robert Mark took over as

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. He had been Mark's chief rival for the top job and opposed Mark's plans for greater integration and interchange between CID and uniformed branches, preferring the old system of CID being almost completely self-contained.'Hard-line' Yard CID chief retires early", '' The Times'', 13 January 1972Obituary of Sir Robert Mark, ''The Independent'', 5 October 2010
/ref> During his time in the job, CID detection rates had risen from just over 20 per cent to nearly 30 per cent and the powerful Kray and

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gangs had been smashed. He was very popular with his men, most of whom wanted to see him appointed Commissioner."How Sir Robert brought the London bobby in from the cold", '' The Times'', 12 March 1977 He retired to Warwickshire.

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*Biography, '' Who Was Who'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Brodie, Peter 1914 births 1989 deaths People from Nairn People educated at Harrow School British colonial police officers British police officers in Ceylon British Chief Constables Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis Officers of the Order of the British Empire English recipients of the Queen's Police Medal People from British Ceylon Inspectors of Constabulary