Roy is currently BCU Commander for North West London with the Metropolitan Police Service. He is accountable for policing across three London boroughs (Barnet, Brent & Harrow) having transferred in March 2020 from his previous role as Head of International Operations for the Met’s Royalty & Specialist Protection Command.
Starting his career in Westminster Roy was responsible for delivering a range of business crime initiatives at a tactical level and oversaw the development of the first Business Crime Reduction Partnership for the vibrant Soho district of central London. In addition he project managed on behalf of the MPS a multi-agency regeneration project making improvements to the built environment, public realm and crime & disorder reduction leading to substantial improvements in public confidence and satisfaction.
Leaving to run a proactive drugs enforcement team in West London and having been deployed as a Public Order PSU Commander during the August riots of 2011, Roy then became head of the new MPS Business Crime Unit providing the Met’s first dedicated team of officers dedicated to business crime, partnership & engagement and crime prevention across London. This includes senior level stakeholder engagement with the business community, local & national government and partner agencies.
He was promoted in 2013 to Chief Inspector and posted to Lambeth borough, described by HMIC as “the most challenging policing environment in Western Europe”. There he was responsible for neighborhood policing & counter terrorism. He left Lambeth on promotion to Superintendent in October 2016 moving to become the OCU Commander for the newly formed Continuous Policing Improvement Command. He is a strategic firearms commander, strategic CBRN commander, public order gold commander and has completed the UK multi-agency gold incident command course. He has commanded a range of public order incidents across London and was the first senior officer on scene at the London Bridge terror attack.
He led the development of the National Business Crime Centre a Home Office funded initiative to improve liaison and co-operation between the police and private sector. In addition he has supported the Met’s Police & Security (PaS) project promoting intelligence & information sharing with the private security industry and was the senior sponsor for a joint MPS and Homeland Security Initiative “The Citizens Academy”.
As Head of International Operations for Royalty & Specialist Protection he oversaw intelligence, firearms training & policy, high risk overseas deployments and the world famous Fixated Threat Assessment Centre.
Selected in 2010 to attend the Bramshill Police Staff College as part of the national High Potential Development Scheme he has undertaken a post-graduate diploma in police leadership at Warwick Business School. Roy also represents the MPS as an associate director on the advisory board for the Safer London Business Partnership, is a member of the executive board for the Cross-sector Safety & Security Communications hub (CSSC), is a member of the Security Institute and has recently agreed to join the Global Advisory Council for the Institute of Strategic Risk Management of which he is a Fellow.
