SPEAKERS
Mr Jim Gamble
Chief Executive
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
United Kingdom
Jim Gamble has a strong background in counter terrorism and was Head of Special Branch Intelligence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Here he was in charge of all counter terrorism and operations relating to Irish terrorism in the UK and overseas. Having joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 1982 (formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary) he set about securing a wide range of command experience serving as both a uniform and detective officer in what was one of the most challenging policing environments in the UK.
At the end of 2001, Jim took up a leading role with the National Crime Squad for England and Wales as an Assistant Chief Constable and, in 2004, as Deputy Director General. His extensive portfolio included a number of key disciplines that provided a cutting edge service to national and international law enforcement. These include responsibility for professional standards, legal services and firearms policy. Jim was also responsible for the UK’s National High Tech Crime Unit, co-ordination of Operation Ore – the UK’s largest ever investigation into online child abuse – and the national Paedophile Online Investigation Team.
Jim Gamble is passionate about keeping one step ahead of criminals through the use of technology to combat crime, particularly crimes against children. To this end, Jim led the creation of the Virtual Global Taskforce to bring together law enforcement agencies from around the world to fight online child abuse. He is the ACPO lead for online child abuse and for child trafficking and co-chairs the ACPO Data Communications Group. In this role, he has represented the Home Secretary in Europe on matter of data retention.
In November 2005 Jim Gamble was appointed by the British Government as Chief Executive of the new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The Centre formally started work in April 2006.
Jim has a diploma in Applied Criminology and Policing Studies and is currently studying for a MSc in Criminal Justice at Cambridge University.
He is married with three children.
