Making Manchester a safer city by applying an evidence based approach to everything that we do in the City Security Council: Manchester, and ensuring intelligence is gathered and disseminated effectively throughout the member network.

Key focus on the identification, assessment and management of risk affecting retail spaces, and targeting and investigation of offenders.Responsibility for the leadership and management of:Incident Response TeamCrime Intelligence TeamPolice & Partnership TeamAccountable for the delivery of intelligence led, risk focussed outputs and evidencing and articulating a clear ROI for all outcomes achieved.Passionate about developing evidence based practices.

I aimed to do the simple things well and ensure businesses and individuals were able to operate effectively in a secure environment.With a specific focus on physical, cyber and financial crime risks I:*Identified, Assessed and Managed specific security risks to individuals and businesses.*Designed and delivered security Education and Awareness programmes.*Conducted third party due diligence.*Tested existing security controls.*Produced security threat and vulnerability assessments.*Produced GDPR gap analyses.*Designed and delivered security programmes.*Developed teams to be intelligence led, and risk focussed.*Sought to establish ‘what works’ in preventing crime.

A wide and varied career focussing on national and international serious and organised crime threats affecting communities in the United Kingdom.Specialist focus was on the identification, assessment and management of Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) and the National Coordination of local interventions by Law Enforcement Agencies.Primary responsibilities related to * Leading and developing teams of intelligence professionals to develop threat assessments which were then used to brief senior officials in law enforcement and government on the threat levels to the UK.* Leading and developing teams of security professionals to develop strategic and tactical responses to the assessed threats.* Measuring the effectiveness of responses to identified threats.* Enhancing the capability of existing resources to prevent and detect serious and organised crime through developing appropriate training courses based on global best practices.* Leading and developing national teams to engage with businesses and individuals and share knowledge of how to protect themselves from serious and organised criminal threats.* Developing public/private sector partnerships to manage assessed security threats.* Representing UK policing as keynote speaker at national and international events focusing on the management of risks relating to cyber and financial crime.* Representing national policing with senior government officials to develop policies and allocate budgets.