Ronnie Flanagan

Sir Ronald Flanagan GBE QPM (born 25 March 1949) is a retired senior British police officer. He was the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom excluding Scotland. Sir Ronnie was previously the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland since its creation in 2001 to 2002, and had been Chief Constable of its predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) until 2001.

Born in Belfast, he joined the RUC in 1970 while studying Physics at Queen's University Belfast. He resigned in 2002, and was replaced by Hugh Orde. Since then he has served in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and was appointed as HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary in 2005. He was tasked to review the police arrangements in Iraq in December 2005 as part of the British involvement there. Following Sir Ronald's retirement in December 2008, Denis O'Connor succeeded him as Her Majesty's Acting Chief Inspector of Constabulary.

After leaving British policing, Sir Ronald took up the post of strategic adviser to the Abu Dhabi Police Force, a post he held for almost two years until he succeeded Lord Condon as chairman of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption & Security Unit (ACSU).

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