National Business Crime Solution (NBCS), the not for profit body for sharing data between police forces and businesses against crime, has made Daniel Hardy its new Managing Director.
Hardy, pictured, said: ‘I am passionate about partnership and preventing crime through the better use of intelligence sharing and technology. As such, I want to cement the position of NBCS as a critical friend of business, the police service and all business reduction partnerships, by furthering the use of the national business model for all those affected by crime.”
Hardy served five years in the Grenadier Guards before gaining experience in the private security industry. He then spent 13 years with the Metropolitan Police, rising to the position of Acting Detective Inspector on Specialist Crime Directorate and running Operation Vanguard. He became Head of Risk at G4S and, was Corporate Crime and Security Lead at Sainsbury’s, where his responsibility included the supermarket chain’s stores, corporate locations and distribution facilities around the world.
NBCS has secured six-figure UK Government funding as part of the Police Transformation Fund, a Home Office programme. That will enable it to make new appointments, and implement a comprehensive marketing and awareness campaign, including a new corporate identity.
One of Hardy’s priorities will be to make NBCS sustainable. Doing so will mean that it is able to operate as an self-sufficient, self-governing entity, which is funded and controlled by members, while being open to all businesses and government enterprises.
He will seek to increase the member base of NBCS and meet its stated strategic objectives, as an intelligence sharing solution in the UK.
Tim Edwards, Chair of the NBCS board of directors, said: ‘It gives me great pleasure to have Dan as Managing Director of NCBS, following a robust recruitment process. He served on the board for six months in a Vice-Chair capacity, which gave us a real opportunity to assess what he could contribute, and we were unanimously impressed. He has excellent leadership skills, played a key role in developing our current strategy and has forged superb relationships with both existing and future stakeholders, which are certain to deliver immediate benefits. I’m looking forward to working with him and Catherine Bowen, our Policy and Stakeholder Director, and believe we have a very strong executive team to drive NBCS forward.’
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