John Crawford BSc (Hons) - Partner

Following service in HM Royal Navy spent the next 28 years in the police service. He occupied a variety of specialist roles mainly in the Criminal Investigation Deaprtment working on all levels of serious crime including murder. He was involved from the outset of "The Lockerbie Incident" and spent several years investigating extremely complex evidence trails in countries across the world.

He has also been part of a team investigating bombing campaigns carried out by organisations sympathetic to the Animal Rights cause.

There followed three years working in the Organised Crime Unit of the National Criminal Intelligence Service(NCIS) in London specialising in the phenomena of Russian and European Organised Crime and this involved working closely with the UK Security Services. This experience gained wide recognition overseas and he was invited by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to speak at the Eastern European Crime Conference in Canada. He was also closely involved in the compilation of a NCIS report on Computer Crime which was begnining to impact worldwide at the time.

On his return to Edinburgh in 1999 he was instrumental in setting up a Confidential Unit to handle sensitive and covert issues.

Following the arrest of the Lockerbie suspects in Libya, he provided further assistance to the Crown Office, travelling to several countries particularly in the Middle East in order to prepare the case for the court in the Netherlands.

Following his retirement from the police service John was the author of a book called "The Lockerbie Incident", made several television and radio appearances and was a keynote speaker at the Vancouver Homicide Conference in 2002.

He then joined the major Telecoms company in the UK as an Investigations Manager covering the Scottish area. This experience gave him a valuable insight into commercial crime and he was instrumental in solving a multi million pound fraud against the company. He was also involved in identifying organised criminal infiltration into the organisation, a phenomena which has become a major problem for commercial businesses in the modern age.