Scott Williamson Policing & Security

Scott Williamson Scott Williamson Senior Leadership, Decision Making and Firearms Training Manager

Scott is a specialist lecturer in firearms operations, command, training, post incident management, and decision making.

Scott retired from policing as Chief Firearms Instructor after a career spanning twenty-eight and a half years. He held various high profile armed policing roles within Police Scotland and UK armed policing working groups. He performed the roles of armed response officer, firearms tactical advisor, operational firearms commander, police range safety inspector and national firearms instructor where he delivered both initial and refresher training.

He holds a Diploma in Police Service, Leadership and Management, certification in managing risk and assessing vocational achievement and finally, professional qualifications as a National Firearms Command and post incident management lecturer where he specialised in training delivery and is a subject matter expert. He has provided expert witness testimony to investigative bodies on police use of firearms, training and command decision making processes.

He is an accomplished and well respected training and development professional with a proven record in the management and delivery of complex national training.

His responsibilities as Chief Firearms Instructor included the design, delivery, and scheduling of all firearms training across Scotland from operational to command level. This training ranged between armed response, close protection, tactical rifle officer, CTSFO and all command roles. The training was nationally accredited, and quality assured on an annual basis. His management allowed him to introduce processes across Scotland to a large volume of students. Scott managed all firearms risks on behalf of the senior policing executive.

He was part of several UK working groups on setting policy around command training and delivery in various firearms specialist roles.

Scott has delivered training to firearms commanders from across the United Kingdom. Internationally Scott deployed to Jordan where he worked with several high profile agencies instructing specialist officers.


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