Simon Upton Email & Phone Number

I have been a police officer for 30 years having retired in July 2021 . I had been a detective for over 20 years.I have been a leader in Lancashire Constabulary for 15 years at Detective Sergeant, Detective Inspector and senior level as a Detective Chief Inspector. I have a vast experience in leading people. I also had significant experience in investigation, intelligence, analytics and public protection. From 2010 to 2013 I was a Detective Sergeant on investigations and public protection and I was involved in strategy discussions with partner agencies including social services involved with family protection safeguarding concerns, investigations into aquisitive crime and involved in a number of complex investigations. I was the Detective Inspector for Crime Reduction, responsible for reducing volume crime in local communties, involving numerous departments across different business areas. I have experience of combining intelligence and information to help predict crime patterns through analysis to allow me as a leader to allocate resources to appropriate areas to help reduce crimes, identify criminal activity and therefore reduce the impact on local communities. I was a BCU Intelligence Manager for a number of years with responsibility for Level 1 and 2 Criminality as described within the National Intelligence Model (NIM)I was Detective Inspector and Intelligence Manager for the Force's Intelligence Bureau before being promoted to a senior management position as a Detective Chief Inspector. My last role as a senior leader within the police force role was head of Intelligence and the Economic Crime Unit. I was responsible for large and diverse teams ensuring we delivered on key performance indicators (KPI) as set locally, regionally and nationally by senior officers and government. I helped deliver key projects, such as new intelligence systems and processes whilst also delivering business models to allow the chief officer teams to invest in my area of responsibility. I am PIP2 qualified and I was qualified to investigation and deal with crimes in action such as kidnaps and blackmail type offences. I also attended a number of leadership courses throughout my career. I am now a Senior Vetting Officer for Lancashire Constabulary. I have responsibility to protect the organisation from outside threats as a result of staff recruitment, whilst managing vetting renewals and changes to vetting levels for internal staff as set out by the College of Policing and Government Codes or Practice.

Listed skills include Crime Prevention, Criminal Investigations, Evidence, Criminal Justice, and 17 others.

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