WHO WE ARE
National Cyber Resilience Centre Group and Cyber Resilience Centres.
Police, private sector and academia in a not-for-profit partnership strengthening our national cyber resilience across SMEs and the supply chain
OUR HISTORY
Until recently, tackling cybercrime within your business was the domain of IT specialists, but, over the past ten years, it has increasingly become a fundamental priority for any leader. An appropriate and effective cyber strategy needs to be integral to the operation of all organisations, sitting at the heart of how they protect their business, customers, and supply chains.
A coalition of police, government, large employers and organisations and academia, we are supporting the growth of the Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC) network, helping smaller organisations across England and Wales make their businesses safer, more secure and more resilient.
In addition, we are building a national Talent Pipeline of students to equip the next generation of those who will tackle cybercrime with the essential skills, knowledge and on-the-job training they need.
In NCRCG, we have a platform for leading the charge to strengthen our national cyber resilience. By doing so, we are benefiting the UK economy, protecting our national assets, and making the UK the safest place to work in, to invest in and to deal with.
MEET THE BOARD
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Ian Kirby
Detective Superintendent Ian Kirby is CEO of the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG).
Prior to taking up his position as CEO in October 2023, Ian spent five years at the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, where he became Head of Cybercrime, Technical Surveillance and Development. In this role, Ian gained extensive experience as a Senior Investigating Officer, leading specialist teams in the investigation and mitigation of serious and complex cybercrime cases across the seven East of England counties.
Ian began his career in 1990 as a police officer in the Royal Air Force. In 2000, he joined Hertfordshire Constabulary, where he worked in operational policing as well as in serious and organised crime for over two decades. He also trained and served as a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator.
Ian Kirby
James Thomson
James Thomson is a Non-Executive Director of the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG).
James is the Chair of the City of London Police Authority Board and is Chair of its Economic and Cyber Crime Committee which has oversight for the work of the City of London Police as National Lead Force for Fraud. He has served on the Police Authority Board since 2015 and served as Deputy Chairman from 2017 to 2020.Prior to joining the Police Authority Board, James was a Special Constable with the City of London Police for 12 years.
As Chair of the City of London Police Authority, James is a member of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners where he also sits on the board of the APCC. He is also deputy lead for Fraud and Cyber for the APCC.
James has spent the last 20 years working in industry including for Smiths Group, the FTSE 100 listed international engineering company, as Group Finance Director of DTZ Holdings plc, the listed property company now part of Cushman & Wakefield. Prior to becoming CEO of Gleeson, he was Chief Executive of Keepmoat, the largest private developer of affordable homes in the UK delivering some 4,000 homes a year.
James Thomson
Angela McLaren
Angela McLaren is a Non-Executive Director of the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG).
Angela began her career with Fife Constabulary in 1996, where she served in operational and community roles up to the rank of Chief Inspector. She has been promoted to various roles in police since then, and was selected to lead a team to produce the first long term strategy for policing in Scotland, following a promotion in 2015 to Chief Superintendent.
During her tenure as Chief Superintendent, she was also appointed Divisional Commander of Fife Division where she led various operations and events. In 2018, she was promoted to Assistant Chief Constable responsible for Operational Change and Resilience, a portfolio which included the Digitally Enabled Policing Programme and Strategic Design Authority.
In June 2019, Angela became the Executive Lead for Organised Crime, Counter Terrorism and Intelligence within Police Scotland. Thereafter in December 2020, she joined City of London Police as the newly created role of Assistant Commissioner responsible for Economic Crime and Cybercrime. In December 2021 she was made Commissioner of the City of London Police.
Angela McLaren
Andrew Gould
Andrew Gould is a Non-Executive Director of the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG).
Alongside his duties at NCRCG, Andrew also works as a Detective Chief Superintendent City of London police officer and is the National Cybercrime Programme Lead for National Police Chiefs’ Council. He is responsible for developing the police response to cybercrime at the national, regional and local level. This includes overseeing the operational activity of Regional and Force Cybercrime Units and supporting the response to major national cyber incidents. He is also responsible for developing cybercrime units in every force in England & Wales and tackling criminality on the Dark Web. He is also a Global Cybercrime Expert for Interpol.
Prior to this, he ran the Met Police’s Cybercrime Unit, having previously worked in Counter Terrorism leading investigations and operations in the UK and abroad.
Andrew Gould
Chris Bell
Chris Bell is a Non-Executive Director at the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG), overseeing board governance and upholding a standard of excellence.
Chris joined the City of London Police in December 2020 as its first Service Delivery Director. He oversees the delivery of the services within the context of the National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting and Analytics Service, working closely with the force executive and heads of operation. His day to day responsibilities also include the contract and commercial management of the service, and all aspects of its supply chain.
Chris was recognised for his work in the transformation of City Procurement, when he was named as the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Management Professional of the Year 2016. Chris joined the City of London Police in December 2020 as its first Service Delivery Director, moving from his role of Commercial Director at the City of London corporation.
Chris Bell
Peter O'Doherty
Prior to joining the City of London Police (CoLP) in January 2022 as Assistant Commissioner, Pete was Assistant Chief Constable at Thames Valley Police (TVP) where he was the South East Regional Lead for Counter Terrorism, and Serious and Organised Crime. Pete performed this role since July 2019 after graduating from the Strategic Command Course in March 2019. In this role Pete worked to the Chief Officer Management Boards across Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.
After graduating from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Pete started his career with the CoLP where he spent a number of years at different ranks as a detective working across volume, major and specialist crime. Pete went on to specialise in cyber and economic crime, and was later in his service seconded into the Metropolitan Police Service as the Head of Uniformed Operations at the London Borough of Newham.
In 2017 Pete returned to the CoLP as Detective Chief Superintendent, Head of Crime and Counter Terrorism, and then went on to lead the CoLP’s Economic Crime Directorate that acts as the national lead force for fraud on behalf of UK policing. Throughout his career Pete has worked extensively across government and across sectors to significantly improve the local, regional and national response to cyber and economic crime. In 2018 Pete won the International Association of Chiefs of Police prestigious “40 under 40” award for his work in this field.
Pete is also an experienced Gold Public Order Commander and Strategic Firearms Commander with multi-force experience, previously a Hostage and Crises Negotiator, and currently the national policing lead for Special Branch reform, Intellectual Property Crime, and Controlled Drugs Liaison Officers.