With over 30 years’ service, Craig Haslam retired from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 2018 at the rank of Chief Superintendent, after a long and varied career that saw him take leadership responsibility for many large public order and ceremonial events including Royal Weddings, State Visits, Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Sunday, Premiership Football fixtures and the Notting Hill Carnival.

Craig served as the Head of Learning and Development for the MPS, before concluding his career as OCU Commander of MPS Taskforce with responsibility for specialist police assets that included Marine, Mounted, Territorial Support and Dog Sections whom Craig led through the terrorist attacks of 2017, the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, and numerous large-scale protests and demonstrations.

Craig has extensive experience of complex senior stakeholder engagement to achieve strategic objectives including the delivery of a £90m real-estate project to transform the MPS Training School at Hendon that was delivered on time and to budget.

He has led the reform and modernisation of police learning and development to meet new and changing demands, and successfully managed significant resource and budget cuts whilst maintaining safety-critical public order and counter terrorism cover for the nation’s capital.

Craig is a qualified trainer with a passion to enable others to achieve their full potential.