Karyn McCluskey

She was born in Falkirk and grew up in the village of Redding near Polmont.^[1][2] She trained as a nurse and by her late teens worked in Accident and Emergency.^[1] She continued to work in nursing while she studied for a BSc in psychology and then a master's degree in offender profiling.^[1]

McCluskey worked for the West Mercia Police, before she joined Strathclyde Police as head of intelligence analysis in 2002.^[2]

In 2004, the McCluskey was asked to put together a report on how to reduce rates of violence in Glasgow.^[3] The contents of the report were accepted and this led directly to the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) being created.^[1]

In February 2016 she was appointed to the board of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) as a non-executive director. ^[4][5]

In September 2016, she was named chief executive of Community Justice Scotland, a new national organization that would come into existence in April 2017.^[6]