Chief Superintendent Stephen Dolan has over 30 years police service and is Divisional Commander for Lanarkshire.

Prior to undertaking this role he led the Police Scotland ‘Policing in a Digital World Programme’, a flagship initiative to deliver the national Cyber Strategy and a new national policing model that is suited to the 21st century.

Stephen's early career in Edinburgh from 1992 saw him perform a range of uniformed and plain-clothed roles, including within a specialist armed policing team. He has varied operational experience at each rank and has performed the roles of Local Area Commander in both West Edinburgh and West Lothian and Specialist Operations Superintendent within Glasgow.

He is an experienced Strategic Firearms, Public Order and CBRN Commander and served for around 15 years as a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator.  He recently had Silver Command responsibility for Operation Unicorn in relation the death of Her Majesty the Queen.