Donald Matheson (police officer)

Summary

Donald Matheson was a Scottish police officer who served as the Commissioner of the North Borneo Police Force during the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, leading the department into the tumultuous era of Sabah's exit from the British Empire, with his police responding to pirate raids, land wars with Indonesia and Brunei, and an annexation claim by the Philippines. After returning to England, he became the postmaster of Forest Hill, Oxfordshire.