John Grieve (police officer)

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John Gilbert Dickie Grieve, CBE QPM (born 1946), is a British former police officer and university professor. He sits on the Independent Monitoring Commission, which oversees the Northern Ireland peace process. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1966, starting in Clapham, South London. He worked as a detective, then senior investigator, and became Divisional Commander at Bethnal Green. He was the Met’s first Director of Intelligence and later led the Racial and Violent Crime Task Force from 1998 to 2002. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1997 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1999. He earned an honours degree in philosophy from Newcastle University and a master's from Cranfield University. He headed training at Hendon Police College and is an emeritus professor at London Metropolitan University. He chairs the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, which is part of London Metropolitan University; the centre began at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in 2003 and moved to London Met in 2006. The centre has trained police and security staff abroad, including in Turkey, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, the USA, Serbia, and China on press relations. In January 2004 the British government appointed him to the Independent Monitoring Commission.