He plays the Chief Commissioner of Scotland's top comedy crime fighting squad and now Jack Docherty is bringing his much loved comic character to the stage.

Jack's alter-ego, Scot Squad's Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson, will give his views on the future of Scottish policing and out of the blue-box thinking during a one-man show at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival on March 22.

It's Jack's first live show in 23 years and he says he can't wait to return to the stage.

"The show is Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson's keynote speech on the future of Scottish policing, which largely involves him remaining Chief Commissioner," he says.

"Lots of festivals have a keynote speech and it just seemed a great way of corralling lots of topics, material, jokes old and new. And it means I can have a lectern, now that I'm in my 50s it's nice to have something to lean on when performing. Ideally I'd have a chaise longue but there you go, you can't have everything.

"Having not done a live show for 23 years, it's strange to be doing one at all, let alone as Miekelson. I've always liked doing character stuff though, it's nice to hide behind another persona."

The show follows in the footsteps of other iconic Scots comedies like Still Game and Limmy's Show which successfully made the transition from television to stage.

Still Game famously sold out 21 dates at Glasgow's SSE Hydro in 2014, while Limmy Live brought characters from Brian Limond's cult comedy series to the stage of Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium earlier this year.

However, the success of these shows was not the catalyst for Jack's one-man endeavour.

"The idea for the show came from beer," he says. "The Comedy Unit guys suggested it to me between the third and fourth pint - for me the exact point where I am guaranteed to say 'yeah that sounds like a blast', which partially explains the month I was employed as a stripogram!"

Since hitting screens in 2014, Scot Squad has become a firm favourite with comedy fans, who have been captivated by the spoof documentary series and the antics of its fictional police force.

The series is the brain child of Joe Hullait and, with the backing of The Comedy Unit, famed for its success with Still Game and Limmy's Show, it seemed destined for great things.

However, Jack says its success came as a surprise to those involved in the show.

"You can never tell what will connect with an audience so it's kind of always a surprise, but the audience response to Scot Squad has been great thankfully. It's best not to analyse why, just be true to what you find funny and hopefully enough people will agree with you.

"I think at heart it's quite an affectionate show. There's a lot of quite loveable characters. Even Miekelson! His belief that he's a great leader and his troops love and respect him is so self-delusional that you can't help but feel sorry for him."

Prior to his turn as Chief Commissioner Miekelson, Jack was best known for his performances on Channel Four cult comedy sketch show Absolutely and his work on Spitting Image, Alas Smith and Jones and Vic Reeves Big Night Out.

He is also the co-founder of Absolutely Productions, a company that has produced a number of big comedy shows for Channel Four including Trigger Happy TV and The Armstrong and Miller Show.

However, Jack gave up performing a decade before appearing in Scot Squad and said he owes his return to the show.

"I'd given up performing for about ten years and then the Comedy Unit just asked me if I was up for it and in the middle of a take I found myself thinking 'this is fun, why did I stop performing?' so in the last two or three years I've really got back into it."

The docu-spoof has shown Jack's comedy pedigree and allowed him to shape his character in ways the creators did not see coming.

"The character's a combination of written and improvised," he says. "So there's a background there but then you just follow your nose and see what happens. In one improvisation it turned out he'd had a very messy divorce, which wasn't in the original brief.

"If you enjoy it then I write the majority of the show, if you don't, then you'll find it was, in the main, written by Joe Hulliat, Rab Christie and Noddy Davidson of the Comedy Unit and they are very keen on Twitter abuse! They welcome it. Live for it, some would say!"

The show has even been given the seal of approval by real police officers, however, Jack says the general public sometimes have trouble distinguishing between his comic troop and reality.

"I've had the odd furtive salute from some real cops so I figure they like it and I met a bunch of Special Branch guys in the pub who told me my portrayal was uncannily accurate. Given my character is clearly a lunatic that's quite worrying!

"There has been some odd moments filming secretly on the streets when the general public have been a bit confused. We shot some stuff in London, Miekelson on a merry-go-round on the Southbank, or dancing to buskers, where I could see the passers-by were a bit freaked."

Jack is now focusing on the future and says he hopes Scot Squad will still be a part of it.

"I'll be doing more Scot Squads hopefully," he says. "We've just piloted Stop/Start, my Radio Four show for BBC One so look out for that, a couple of film scripts are closing in on getting made and I'm collaborating with The Comedy Unit again on a new Scottish set sitcom for Channel Four. In short I'm continuing to do everything in my powers to continue to get paid for arsing around!"

Commissioner Cameron Miekelson: Tomorrow's Force Today will be at the King's Theatre on Tuesday, March 22.