Specialist Crime

Commander Allan Gibson, MSc, BA, Dip. Crim.

Head of the Strategic Risk Management and Specialist Crime Prevention Command.

Key responsibilities:

Commander Gibson provides the lead for this new command area which is pivotal in transforming our approach to serious and organised crime. It draws resources from across SCD to develop a greater understanding of the nature of serious and organised crime, and to identify problem solving and preventive interventions. The command will ensure that we are making the very best use of our operational capability.

Commander Gibson also undertakes a number of MPS-wide responsibilities; He manages the MPS risk in relation to vetting and disclosure; is the MPS lead for drugs strategy and policy; the ACPO lead for the Crime Academy and the command team lead for SCD Re-alignment.

Additionally Commander Gibson is a member of the ACPO Drugs Committee and the national ACPO lead on cannabis cultivation. He is the national ACPO lead on extradition and international mutual legal assistance, a member of the ACPO e-Crime Committee and the MPS lead on proceeds of crime.

Commander Gibson has been with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) since 1983. He has extensive operational experience gained predominantly in the field of crime investigation. Previously he performed the role of being the strategic lead for Child Abuse Investigation, Economic and Specialist Crime and Human Exploitation and Organised Crime, three operational Occupational Command Unit’s located with the MPS’s Specialist Crime Directorate. Prior to this he performed the role of Commander Covert Policing.

Commander Gibson has a great interest in leadership development and training. In 2005 he completed a two-year secondment as the Deputy Director of the national Leadership Academy for Policing at Bramshill and oversaw the production of a doctrine on police leadership – Leading for Those we Serve.

He holds a Masters Degree in Human Resource Development, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Diploma in Applied Criminology (Cambridge). He is a member of the British Society of Criminology and the Institute of Directors. He is a two-time winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal Police Essay Competition with two essays on leadership and policing a multi-cultural society.