Bob Broadhurst OBE QPM

During his 36 years service in the Metropolitan Police, Bob Broadhurst was one of the most experienced public order commanders in the UK.

From 2006 to 2012, he was the Head of public order for London and was responsible for all public order training, policy and delivery.

Bob has had command of some of the most iconic and major events in London's recent history including ceremonial events, sporting events, festivals and protests. In many of these, he was in command of over 5,000 officers at a time such as  Trooping the Colour, the wedding of the Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge, Notting Hill Carnival, the Tour de France, the European cup final, the visit of Pope Benedict and the G20 Summit.

Bob led the planning of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games from winning the bid in 2005 and was the Gold commander during the Games themselves, during which he had over 10,000 officers on duty to look after almost 500,000 spectators a day across the 24 London venues.

Bob has travelled to many police forces around the world, passing on his experience but also seeing first hand some of the best practice these forces have to offer.

Since retiring, he has continued to advise on public order policing and has worked with colleagues in Abu Dhabi, Turkey and Norway. He is an associate of the College of Policing in the UK where he is a regular presenter.

Marc Davis

Marc Davis retired from the Metropolitan Police Service as an Inspector in 2012 with over 30 years service of exemplary service.

During his career Marc served in various front line operation posts on Divisions and Boroughs across West and North West London. He was a public order trained officer throughout his service and took in policing many high profile events across London and nationally. These events included managing teams of officers policing high profile premiership football matches, ceremonial events, public demonstrations, public disorder and terrorist incidents.

As an Inspector on a busy borough he managed teams of officers in various roles from front line operational policing through to community based teams where he worked in partnership with his local public and private sector partners to develop community cohesion and reduce local crime. This role included working with local schools and other interested parties  to develop youth engagement initiatives aimed at tackling youth based crime and anti-social behaviour issues.  

In 2006 Marc was appointed as the national police lead, working in partnership with the English Premier League, to develop a national sports based social inclusion programme to tackle youth crime. This involved working with the top premiership football clubs and them in turn working in some of the most challenging areas across England to tackle local youth crime and gang related issues. The model created has been seen as best practice worldwide and in 2009 the programme won the National Sports Industry Award for best community programme at a prestigious event in London.  Marc remained in this role until his retirement.

Marc has extensive experience working overseas and in 2010 he visited Trinidad and Tobago, at the personal request of The Prince of Wales, to assist the police there in developing a sports based youth programme to reduce the high level of youth and gang violence they were experiencing - where young people were being killed on a daily basis. He was also invited to visit Norway and work with the Police and local football clubs in developing a similar programme to that in the UK.

Following on from the success of the football based programme Marc also took a lead in creating a similar type of programme using Rugby as the engagement sport and working with Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Football Union. This programme won the same National Sports Industry Award in 2012.

Since his retirement Marc has been working in a consultant role with some of the Prince of Wales’ Youth Charities and also been running community policing and youth engagement courses in Abu Dhabi for the Ministry of Interior.

Martin Stevens

Martin Stevens has a long and distinguished career working within the police and UK Criminal Justice System. Having worked directly to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) lead for Criminal Justice he was selected as Programme Director and Head of the London Criminal Justice Partnership to deliver a creative and ambitious Criminal Justice Reform Strategy for London which streamlined processes to produce a more efficient and effective justice system. Martin was very successful in joining both his strategic and practical experience of partnerships and joint working practices to deliver both a regional and national criminal justice reform agenda which has achieved impressive results in driving down costs and unnecessary delays as well as reducing crime and re offending rates across London.

The particular areas of work include:

• Virtual Courts ‘Live Links’ - a process that enabled Police officers to give evidence via video link from police stations

• The Streamlining of Forensic Recording which dramatically cuts the cost of forensic examination
• The 'London Diamond Initiative', created as a new and effective process of offender management delivered by locally based multi-agency teams working with specially trained neighbourhood policing teams
• A wider Integrated Offender Management processes including a very successful 'Compliance and Enforcement' programme
• Victim and witness care programmes
• Electronic prosecution case files
• A project delivering a more efficient use of out of court case disposal

Martin remains at the forefront of innovation recently designing a new and creative model of justice using Payback Cards that ensure offenders pay back their debts owed to society for crimes they have committed.

Adrian Rabot BSc.

Adrian Rabot retired as Superintendent from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with 28 years of exemplary service. He was the Head of Youth Policy leading on the delivery of youth engagement and diversion programmes, managing a budget of over £10 million.

He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He has operational experience of working on the policing response to the terrorist bombings in London in 2005 and also high profile community policing responses to youth murder investigations such as Damilola Taylor and Stephen Lawrence. He also held a senior management post with The London Borough of Southwark as the Head of Community Safety.

He was responsible for delivery of the MPS Youth Strategy with particular focus on reducing serious youth violence in London following the unprecedented rise in teenage murders.

Adrian has extensive overseas training experience that include:

• He led a team of police officers from South Africa delivering youth engagement and schools programmes in Alexandra Township of Johannesberg for the South African Police Service between 2002 and 2006 in partnership with British Airways and Charlton Athletic Football Club.  
• At the request of the Prince of Wales he visited Trinidad & Tobago to develop a sports coaching programme to reduce gang violence in high crime areas based on a model with the Kickz Football programme and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.  
• He has presented on the Metropolitan Police Service strategy and programmes to reduce gang violence to an international conference in Stockholm.

Stephen Bloomfield QPM

As a former Commander in the Metropolitan Police and a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Steve led the design and delivery of the largest and most innovative community safety policing programme that London has ever undertaken. In the United Kingdom this is referred to as ‘neighbourhood policing’.

At it’s core, neighbourhood policing was designed to deliver a more citizen focused approach where locally known police officers worked with local residents and local partners to solve the local problems that were defined by the community.  By getting to the root cause of the problem and not just dealing with the consequences, neighbourhood policing in London delivered not only a reduction in crime and disorder but also an increase in the confidence of the public in their local police area.

Integral to the neighbourhood policing approach were Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs). These were a completely new and innovative idea and Steve led the role out of nearly 5000 PCSOs across London whose main role was to engage with the public and work alongside local police officers to respond to local problems.

As part of his community safety portfolio Steve had responsibility for a number of other areas of work under his command. He led the Safer Schools Programme, an initiative that redesigned London’s approach to having police officers based and working within schools. He led the teams that designed, trained and advised Local Authority Partnerships on the Problem Solving approach to reducing crime and disorder across London.  Steve also led on the development of the Volunteer Policing Programme in London, an approach that embedded the idea that local people volunteered to work a few hours each week alongside their local police officers.  

Steve’s experience meant that he was sought out to advise policing colleagues and partners on community safety in many other countries such as Belgium, Italy, and Canada to name but a few. He is also an experienced conference speaker on the subject, both in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Don Smith

The London Policing College has recruited the services of recently retired officers from both a traffic and driver training background. The team is led by Don Smith who was the head of driver and technical training in the Metropolitan Police and Michael Cleary who was the head of roads policing training at the Scottish Police College.

They have taken a lead role in the writing of the new driver training programme which has now been published by the Policing College (Formerly the National Police Improvement Agency). They also played a key role in the introduction of the code of practice relating to police pursuits and the writing of the Emergency Response Manual that provides guidance to police officers on responding to emergencies in vehicles. Michael has also acted as a subject matter expert on the new publication of ‘Roadcraft’ which is the book that provides underpinning knowledge and is used by all police officers attending driver training in the UK.

Having Michael and Don as our subject matter experts puts us in a position where we can provide a highly credible bespoke driver training product that is up to date and enables students to be assessed using the latest competency based training.

Our team of trainers are highly experienced and skilled in the following areas:

·         Collision Investigation

·         Vehicle Examination – Steering, Brakes & Suspension

·         Vehicle Crime

·         Road Traffic Legislation

·         Tachograph examination

·         Carriage of hazardous goods (ADR)

The team are experienced in the development of training needs analysis and bespoke training solutions to traffic related issues.

Stuart Trayler

Stuart was selected to design and implement a new Transport Police Command for the Metropolitan Police Service in partnership with Transport for London, (TfL), in 2002. He was the strategic lead for the introduction of 32 customer focused pan London, Safer Transport Teams and also delivered multi modal teams tackling issues surrounding Crime/Disorder, Roads Policing, Taxi Private Hire and Community engagement on the surface transport network. The Command supported both National and Metropolitan Police Service objectives. Political scrutiny and all activity overseen by Mayor’s office, as the delivery was a Mayoral priority.

Stuart introduced a multi-agency; intelligence led tasking process providing operational strategy, direction and guidance, deploying Police Staff across all three forces in London and stakeholders, responding to local priorities.

Stuart returned to the command in 2010 as Project lead recommending an overhaul of operational teams and business plans. He reviewed strategies with an emphasis on more effective, coordinated and targeted investment of partnership funds. He negotiated an increase in staff numbers and delivered change within a twelve month timeline. He achieved substantial savings with clear Command activity focused on specific outcomes for communities and partners. The Command now employs over 2,300 staff. The Command achieved significant year on year reductions in all bus crime, (Robbery, Assault, Sexual Offences), improved confidence and satisfaction of Surface transport users all within budget constraints.

Stuart was appointed Deputy OCU Commander in May 2012.  

Rod Jarman QPM

Rod Left the Metropolitan police Service in 2011 with 32 years’ experience and having achieved the rank of Deputy assistant Commissioner.

He had a wide and varied career and has extensive knowledge of running police operations, large delivery units and developing new approaches.

In his last role he was the director of Leadership and Learning responsible for the development, leadership and management of all police training in London. Prior to that he was the Deputy to the Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing delivering 24 hour services across London including neighbourhood Policing, response and investigation.

Nationally he led on a range of subjects including Crime Prevention, Safer schools and Mental Health and Disability.

He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for his services to policing.

He holds a Master degree from University of Cambridge in Applied Criminology, one from University of Leicester in Police Leadership and Management; Post Graduate qualifications in Teaching and Criminology and undergraduate degrees in Sport Science and Public Administration.