James Gamble, (born November 1959) is a British former police officer and head of Belfast region for the now disbanded RUC Special Branch. Gamble was the head of the

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command, or CEOP Command, is a command of the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), and is tasked to work both nationally and internationally to bring online child sexual abuse, child sex offenders, inclu ...

(CEOP) Centre in the United Kingdom until 2010, and is now CEO of the INEQE Safeguarding Group.

Career

RUC Special Branch

Gamble's father was in the Royal Air Force. Before joining the

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as a

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, Gamble served in the Royal Military Police. Early in his career he was head of the controversial

anti-terrorist intelligence unit in Belfast, then Deputy Director General (with the rank of deputy chief constable) of the

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, which in April 2006, merged into the Serious Organised Crime Agency. He was also the head of the Belfast Region of the RUC Special Branch.

National Criminal Intelligence Service

Gamble led the

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(NCIS) fight against

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. He also presided over

Operation Ore Operation Ore was a British police operation that commenced in 1999 following information received from US law enforcement, which was intended to prosecute thousands of users of a website reportedly featuring child pornography. It was the United ...

. He led the work to set up the National Crime Squad's specialist response cell – the Paedophile and Online Investigation Team (POLIT). He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the

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. Gamble was a co-author on the UK's first Domestic Homicide Review (Pemberton) and in 2010 was appointed by the then Home Secretary to lead the initial scoping review of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Gamble resigned as CEO of CEOP in October 2010. He then created the 'Ineqe Safeguarding Group'. Gamble has been called to give evidence at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) on two occasions. The first related to child abuse on the internet and the second to faith-based institutions.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gamble, Jim Living people People from Bangor, County Down Police Service of Northern Ireland officers Northern Irish recipients of the Queen's Police Medal Royal Ulster Constabulary officers British police chief officers Royal Military Police soldiers 1959 births Police officers from County Down

Career

RUC Special Branch

National Criminal Intelligence Service

See also

References