Gordon Halland
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Colonel Gordon Halland OBE, CIE, MID |
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| 10th Inspector General of Police (Sri Lanka) | |
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In office 1942–1944 |
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| Preceded by | Philip Norton Banks |
| Succeeded by | Ranulph Bacon |
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Gordon Herbert Ramsay Halland 13 April 1888 Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire |
| Died | 28 March 1981 Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire |
| Profession | Police officer |
Colonel Gordon Herbert Ramsay Halland, CIE, OBE, MID (1888–1981) was a career British police officer, who served in India, Ireland, UK, Sri Lanka and Germany.
Halland was born on 13 April 1888, at the vicarage in Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Rev. John Thomas Halland (1857–1941), the vicar of Witham on the Hill and subsequently the rector of Blyborough, Lincolnshire, and Amy née Ramsay (1857–1939). Halland was privately educated and attended the Royal Latin School in Buckingham. In 1906 he was employed as a science master at Kirton Grammar School, Lincolnshire.
In 1908 he joined the Indian police and served in the Punjab, where he was second in command of the policing operation for the 1911 Delhi Durbar, and by 1914 reached the rank of District Superintendent.
In 1915 Halland was seconded to the Indian army's general staff as an intelligence officer, with the task of countering subversion in the Sikh regiments of the Indian army. In 1916 he married Helen Claudine Blanche, daughter of Major-General John McNeill Walter, adjutant-general in India. In 1918 he was promoted to Major and awarded an OBE.
In 1920, whilst home on leave Halland was ‘lent’ by the India Office to help the fight against the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. On returning to India at the start of 1921 he was appointed the commandant of the police training academy at Phillaur. In 1926 Halland was promoted to Superintendent of the Amritsar district. The following year he was sent to Shanghai, to protect the international settlement there. Halland returned to the army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, before returning to India as senior superintendent in charge of Delhi. In October 1931 he retired from the Indian police (receiving a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, with the honorary rank of colonel) to take up the post, at the age of forty-three, of chief constable for the Lincolnshire Police.
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