Former Tayside police crime prevention officer Inspector Norman Joss has died at the age of 63.
Inspector Joss died suddenly on Sunday at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow after a lengthy battle with heart problems.
Known to friends and colleagues as Norrie, Mr Joss had been a serving police officer for almost 30 years when he retired in 1997.
Born in Dundee, he was raised in Kirkton, educated at Gillburn Primary School and was one of the first pupils at Kirkton High School in 1960.
After leaving school he studied for two years at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art before joining Dundee City Police in 1968 as a beat officer.
He became a recruiting and training officer for a few years before joining the traffic department in 1974, spending four years there.
During that time he met Sheena, who worked in the control unit, and the couple were married in 1974.
Meanwhile, his brother Alistair (Ally) also joined the police, rising to the rank of inspector in the traffic division.
Mr Joss was promoted to section sergeant in the new Tayside Police in Dundee before moving to Community Involvement, being promoted to inspector in 1991 as crime prevention officer.
During his time in the department, Mr Joss was involved in setting up the city’s network of CCTV cameras.
After retiring from the police in 1997 due to ill health, he pursued his hobby of researching his family history as a committee member of the Tay Valley Family History Society.
He was also very keen on art, both drawing and painting, and also often indulged his passion for quizzes, appearing several times on TV as a member of Barnhill Bowling Club’s quiz team, which one year won STV’s Top Club.
Mr Joss is survived by wife Sheena, his son Gavin, daughter Lynsey and three grandchildren.