 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 strong background in counter terrorism and was Head of Special Branch Intelligence in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 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 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.
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