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The Enforcer: Pen-pushers have sabotaged the war on crime lords

THE ex-police chief who headed Scotland's answer to the FBI has warned the agency is no longer fit for purpose in the war against organised crime.Read

The Enforcer: Demons of my drunk father

THE scourge of Scotland's gangsters was an unlikely police recruit. Graeme Pearson had a tough upbringing in Glasgow's Partick and even had a shot at pop stardom with his band The Bowmen.Read

The Enforcer: My first shift in Easterhouse

BY the summer of 1971 Frankie Vaughan had sung and danced his way into the hearts of the Glasgow neds.Read

The Enforcer: My role in bringing CCTV to Scotland

BRITAIN is the world capital of CCTV with more than four million cameras. Few realise the seeds of our surveillance society were sown in Airdrie by Pearson - the town's police chief at the time.Read

The Enforcer: 'Interference from civil servants undermined our strategy'

IN my four years in charge of the agency, we recovered more than £125million of illicit drugs, seized firearms and tackled human trafficking, writes Graeme Pearson.Read

The Enforcer: Gang who threatened the economy

MAJOR drug dealers were the SCDEA's main targets.Read

The Enforcer: How we caught the XYY mob

WALTER NORVAL masterminded a string of violent armed robberies at post offices, banks and hospitals across the west of Scotland in 1976 and 1977.Read

The Enforcer: Bringing the Iceman to justice

PEARSON decided to go after millionaire criminals - and top of his list was Jamie "Iceman" Stevenson.Read