Simon Lewis
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Previous Work
Simon Lewis joined the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 1979 and has been a uniformed operational officer in the capital throughout his career. As a Chief Inspector he was responsible for the Territorial Support Group for the North West London area, leading a full-time public order unit trained to the highest levels for policing public disorder. He is trained as a strategic and operational commander for public order and major/emergency events at an advanced level and regularly assumes the responsibilities of GOLD (Strategic) or SILVER (Tactical) Commander. In these roles he has been involved in the policing of many events over the years; including Notting Hill Carnival, Trafalgar Square New Years Eve Celebrations in central London and London May Day anarchist disturbances. Simon has also had the privilege of being Silver Commander for Trooping the Colour (Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Parade) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was Silver for the London Bombings on 7th July 2005 overseeing officer deployments to secure the numerous crime scenes and deploy security patrols to protect the capital. He was also Silver Commander for the consequence management strand following the murder of Mr Litvinenko, which triggered a major public health emergency across London. Simon is the chair of the London Emergency Services Liaison Panel.
Current Position
He is currently responsible for MPS Emergency Preparedness in London. This includes business continuity, emergency planning, crisis management and cross business group coordination in both times of emergency and in pre-planning. It also includes the MPS strategic link with the London Resilience Team and London Resilience Partnership.
Education
Simon has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Hertfordshire University where he conducted research into the performance culture in Policing.
