Assistant Chief Constable Patricia Gallan

Assistant Chief Constable (02 Feb 2010)

Patricia Gallan joined Merseyside Police in February 2006, as Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Operations Support.

Born and brought up in Scotland, Patricia joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1987. She began her policing career in the East End of London, where she served in Uniform before transferring to the CID.

In March 2000, Patricia transferred to Specialist Operations at New Scotland Yard, and was Head of the MPS unit with responsibility to the Director of Intelligence on all matters relating to informants within the MPS. Trained in 1997 as a Hostage Negotiator, Patricia was regularly deployed at domestic sieges and kidnaps of various types and duration.