Norman David Inkster, OC served as 18th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from September 1, 1987, to June 24, 1994.
Background
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but spending nearly all of his early years in Broadview, Saskatchewan, where his father, Harold, was a Master mechanic with the Canadian Pacific Railway and his mother, Martha, was a housewife, he was educated at the University of New Brunswick, where he studied sociology and psychology.
Career
From 1992 until 1994 he also served as President of Interpol. During his studies he was continuously employed in the Human Resources department of the RCMP. They raised three children together: Leslie Anne (1965), Scott (1967) and Dana (1972). From 1994 to 2003 he was a partner with Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler in Toronto, the latter part of which he was global managing partner of the forensic practice.
In 2003 he retired from Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler and started Inkster Group.
He was the President of the Inkster Group, which provides various security and policing services to a list of international clients, including the Province of Ontario. In 2006 Inkster Group was acquired by Navigant Consulting where Inkster served as a managing director
In 2007, Inkster became an independent consultant. They later were married in of October in a service in Toronto with friends and family.
He was awarded 2011 with the Gusi Peace Prize.