Stewart Carle joined the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents as its general secretary in November 2022. 

The Association is the statutory staff association for the senior operational leaders in policing and represents over 140 members in the Police Service of Scotland.

Stewart previously served for 30 years as a regular police officer, reaching the rank of chief superintendent, his last operational posting being Head of Road Policing before he was elected as president of ASPS in 2020 from which role he retired in September 2021. Stewart continued his police service as a volunteer special constable, occasionally volunteering for operational patrols with the Road Policing Unit at Stirling, the city in which he lives with his wife who works in financial services.

Stewart is a trustee of the Police Remembrance Trust, a UK charity which maintains the Police Roll of Honour and arranges the annual National Police Memorial Day. Stewart also volunteers for the Scottish Police Memorial Trust, which has its remembrance wall and garden in the grounds of Tulliallan.

In addition to the Scottish Scheme Advisory Board, Stewart attends the UK Police Pensions SAB as an observer.  
 

David Kennedy is General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), representing the interests of police officers across Scotland. David has extensive experience in policing, workforce representation, employment matters and police pensions. As General Secretary, he leads the SPF’s work on national policy, pay and conditions, pensions, officer welfare, conduct and employment-related issues, representing members in discussions with Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority, the Scottish Government and other key stakeholders.

Pensions form a significant part of David’s representative responsibilities. He has particular experience of the issues affecting members of the Police Pension Schemes, including the interaction between the legacy schemes and the 2015 Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) scheme, retirement and ill-health provisions, commutation, remedy arrangements and the practical impact of pension policy changes on serving and retired officers.

David brings to the Scheme Advisory Board the perspective of scheme members and a strong understanding of how pension policy and administration affect individuals throughout their policing careers and into retirement. He is committed to ensuring that pension arrangements are fair, transparent, sustainable and clearly communicated to members.

Alongside his role with the Scottish Police Federation, David has significant experience of governance, strategic leadership and stakeholder engagement. He is also Chair of Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity and is actively involved in national and international police representative organisations and networks.

David is particularly committed to ensuring that the voice and lived experience of scheme members are properly reflected in the governance and continuing development of Scotland’s police pension arrangements.

Sharon Dalli is the Head of Pensions with Police Scotland.  She’s a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute with experience in the pensions industry spanning over 30 years.  Sharon has a broad range of experience in pensions including matters relating to administration, policy and compliance at both local and national levels.

Sharon also has relevant experience in pensions governance having chaired and been a member on pension boards, as well as various pension working groups, across schemes in both the public and private sector.  

Prior to joining policing in 2006, she has led on the implementation of pension and benefit services for external clients, provided services to Trustees, and managed teams responsible for pensions service delivery, client management, within a range of in-house, third-party administration and consultancy environments.