Jim Gamble
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James "Jim" Gamble QPM is a senior British police officer. He is chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), a police unit affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in the United Kingdom.
Earlier in his career he was head of the Northern Ireland anti-terrorist intelligence unit in Belfast, then Deputy Director General(with the rank of Deputy Chief Constable) of the National Crime Squad which in April 2006 merged into the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Gamble led the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) fight against child sex abuse, including initiatives such as the controversial Operation Ore. He led the work to set up the National Crime Squad's specialist response cell – the Paedophile Online Investigation Team (POLIT).
He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the New Year Honours 2008.[1]