Gareth Dothie CMgr FCMI

Experience

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  City of London Police

  Sept 2008 - now

  • Founded and led a new hybrid, cross-function anti-bribery and corruption team. Designed resource, budget, and personnel plans, strategically contributing to Government ABC strategy. • Spearheaded collaborative engagement with Government, domestic and international partners, elevating the UK's counter-corruption capabilities by leveraging UK strengths and addressing critical needs in the anti-corruption domain. • Designed a national intelligence and coordination team and its procedures to negate strategic vulnerabilities and improve information sharing and coordinated action. • Built a centre of expertise and national leadership for B&C prevention and investigation. Created partnerships to provide advice and guidance across industries. • Led nationally significant ABC investigations, removing corporate threats and safeguarding finances and the UK economy. Improved law enforcement uptake of B&C investigations, reducing risks and financial harm. • Conducted a review of UK legislation and whistleblower processes in support of the Home Office. Led national consultation to effect significant changes in the anti-corruption legal framework. Show less • Led a cross-function department comprising several teams of fraud and financial crime specialists and support staff with national roles investigating and preventing economic crime across the UK. • Founded and led a new hybrid, cross-function anti-bribery and corruption unit. Demonstrating exceptional business acumen by efficiently designing resource, budget, and personnel plans, strategically contributing to national ABC strategy. • Designed and executed organisational change, streamlining operations and achieving substantial cost efficiencies via shared services and up-skilled teams. • Pioneered new approaches to victim care, pinpointing cost-free interventions that reduced repeat victimisation from fraud and cybercrime. Increased efficiency enabled the team to create new revenue streams. • Spearheaded extensive national collaboration across sectors, project managing a review of criminal legislation and whistleblower processes supporting the Home Office in elevating the UK's counter-corruption capabilities. • Instituted organisational learning and continuous development processes that extracted best practice from investigations and shared them across the UK to improve national police response to fraud and financial crime. • Implemented effective prioritisation, resource allocation and decision making to realise ambitious anti-fraud and money laundering objectives. Exceeded departmental performance targets and mitigated risk in sensitive cases. Show less • Spearheaded multi-disciplinary teams specialising in identifying, preventing and investigating fraud and financial crime including SAR investigation, crypto and blockchain, cybercrime, financial investigation and asset recovery. • Revitalised investigation protocols, created new standards and processes that were demonstrated to be successful, wrote new organisational policies and toolkits around this framework that have been widely adopted nationally. • Integrated innovative technology and automation into data analysis, intelligence and investigation to future-proof the department against increasing demand and criminal sophistication. • Raised the team’s skills and capability through training and CPD, inviting experts and specialists from across private and public sectors and overseas to enhance their understanding of anti-fraud and AML techniques and the wider landscape. • Created new opportunities for cross sector-learning and information sharing, provided training on fraud and AML for policing across the UK, the FCA, government departments and the financial sector and gave a guest lecture at Canterbury University. • Implemented transformational and ethical leadership at all levels of the department and built trust and team bonds that resulted in the highest staff satisfaction in the organisation, improved staff retention and excellent performance and outcomes. • Provided exceptional management and decision making, steering intricate investigations and deftly prioritising tasks to ensure optimal outcomes within stringent timelines, disrupting and prosecuting economic crime and preventing victimisation. • Attained prestigious designations: Accredited Counter Fraud Manager, PIP2 Investigation Manager, and Virtual Currency Investigator and formally recognised for exceptional performance as a Senior Investigating Officer. Show less • Built and led a bespoke Terrorism Investigation Team in response to the Fishmongers Hall terrorist attack growing my existing portfolio of Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation Teams. • Undertook a pivotal leadership role in driving investigations and instilling a culture of continuous learning and victim focus. • Represented the organisation at senior level multi-agency forums, ensuring the organisation’s requirements were met amid competing demands. • Championed strategic level and tactical cross-function coordination, ensuring teams collaborated across private, public and legal sectors while addressing the needs of key stakeholders. • Created effective hybrid-working practices during COVID while providing leadership and support to a team under significant pressure, delivering key outcomes and effectively mitigating organisational risk. • Identified transformative organisational reforms that significantly curtailed future risk and demonstrated rigour and self-scrutiny to regulators, thus preserving the reputation and confidence in the organisation. • Garnered formal recognition for exemplifying exceptional leadership, unwavering professionalism, and unwavering commitment during a critical terrorist attack response. Show less * Revolutionised the Public Protection division by guiding a dynamic team in addressing the evolving challenges posed by humantrafficking, modern slavery, and child exploitation.* Ensured organisational integrity through effective management of internal investigations and compliance, upholding the highestethical and legal standards.* Pioneered the development of internal and multi-agency training programs, amplifying professional capabilities and fostering aculture of continuous improvement.* Spearheaded the region in achieving exceptional prosecution rates for rape and domestic abuse cases, reflecting an unwaveringcommitment to delivering justice and safeguarding victims. Show less

  • Head of Bribery & Corruption Investigations

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Head of Fraud Operations

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2024

  • Manager, Fraud & Financial Crime Investigations

    Sept 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Head of Terrorism Investigation Team

    Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Head of Public Protection Unit

    Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

  • Detective Sergeant- serious and complex crime and major investigations

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2019

  • Police/Detective Constable

    Sept 2008 - Jan 2016