Keith Bristow

Keith Bristow was the Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police in 2011, when Home Secretary Theresa May announced she was appointing him the first head of the National Crime Agency.

Outside of politics

Having left his position as head of the National Crime Agency, Mr Bristow sought the advice of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments(ACOBA) to set up an independent consultancy, dealing with leadership and management development, risk and reputation management, governance and standards, as well as law enforcement, security and policing. He sought to take up two commissions as Senior adviser to Interpol and Arcanum Global.

The Prime Minister accepted the commission's advice, and Mr Bristow was permitted to set up the consultancy under the following conditions; he does not use any privileged information he may have had access to in government; he serve a 2 year lobbying ban starting from his final day in office; for 12 months from his last day in office he does not take up any consultancy based work with an organisation that is dealing with the National Crime Agency; he seek the advice of the committee for each individual commission he may take up to ensure it is in accordance with the terms set by the commission. The appointment was announced in January 2016.

Under this consultancy, Bristow has also taken on commissions as Chair of Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group; Non-executive chair with Arquebus Solutions; Adviser to the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police; Chair of the cyber crime advisory panel of Lloyd's Banking Group and Member of the BT Group National Security Committee /Adviser to BT Security Enterprise Division.