Ed Bateman Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Working remotely with individuals and groups working in fragile states across a range of rewarding projects developing capacity and effective systems to settle internally displaced people; equip, train and mentor a civilian police force and explore approaches to gaining the trust and cooperation of fractured communities recovering from conflict

London, Uk

Facilitating senior teams to develop thinking, strategy, plans and solutions; corporate and public sector investigations and inspections; sensitive internal investigations e.g., HR fact-finding, discipline, complaints or grievances; development, inspection and improvement of regulatory frameworks; development, inspection and improvement of security operations/environments; mentoring/course design and training of non-UK law enforcement professionals; capacity building/mentoring security and law enforcement personnel in the UK and in fragile States; delivering critical incident and counter-terrorism awareness training bespoke to private sector/HMG agency senior teams and workplaces; and, working with company boards to health check against exploitive supply chains and develop and publish robust modern slavery statements

Victoria, London

Seconded to the Independent Anti-Slavery Commission identifying opportunities for increased joint working between the Commission, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and other regulators/agencies to safegaurd victims and prevent and enforce instances of Modern Slavery

Canary Wharf

Leadership of senior cross agency relationships, UK wide inspection, investigation and prosecution capability, working with national law enforcement assets to disrupt organised crime and counter terrorism, co-ordinating the SIA response in support of the Home Office Safeguarding agenda and influencing the strategic and operational direction and approaches of the security industry regulatorAchievementsI led the SIA’s successful engagement with the NCA, regional organised crime units and police that resulted in the disruption of OCGs operating in the security industryI professionalised the investigative workforce by funding them to complete the Advanced Certificate in Criminal InvestigationI developed an award-winning counter terrorism training product for the security industryI delivered significant organisational change in directing UK regional investigation teams toward safeguarding risks (Modern Slavery, Child Sexual Exploitation) as well as their complaince, investigation and prosecution rolesI led the successful SIA response to the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games assuring that the security/search deployed was sufficient, correctly licensed and the right quality I broadened the focus of the SIA criminal investigation team to include fraud and other non Private Security Industry Act offences to provide a harder hitting response to industry criminality

Canary Wharf

London

As an MPS chief superintendent, directing the delivery of a complex and unique armed security operation protecting key national infrastructure with a force of over 500 police officers, security guards and fire fightersAchievementsManaging a £31 million budget, introduced a series of initiatives that reduced contract costs by over £2.5 million whilst providing new, improved services and increasing estate security

Various

A very enjoyable and rewarding police career in London including postings as a chief superintendent to the Commissioner’s Government (London and National) Liaison Team, Community and Diversity Unit and Head of Security at the Palace of Westminster.