In June 2012 Mackinlay was selected as the Conservative’s candidate in Kent for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, beating off competition from Jan Berry, who was in charge of the Police Federation of England and Wales for several years, and former High Commissioner to Uganda, Francois Gordon.
He later served as First Secretary for the British Delegation to the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva from 1983 to 1988, before becoming the Head of Finance for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the United Nations from 1988-1989, First Secretary to Nairobi from 1990 to 1992 and Head of Crime, Drugs and Terrorism Department for the FCO.
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