Steve Swain joined SITC as Cheif Executive Officer in June 2009 having worked as a Senior Consultant in the London based Security Consulting team of Control Risks since September 2006.
Prior to joining Control Risks, he was a Detective Chief Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police Service. In the MPS he ran the Police International Counter-Terrorist Unit. As head of PICTU he was responsible for leading the National Counter-Terrorist Working Party, designing counter terrorist policing options for the UK, based upon the ensuing threat levels. Working with MI5, Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Branch, PICTU produced the strategic and tactical assessment of the national intelligence picture. He was also the police service representative on a number of Cabinet Office counter terrorist committees.
Prior to this, as a Superintendent in the Anti-Terrorist Branch, he was the senior security co-ordinator for the Metropolitan Police, leading a team of 70 full and part-time staff, with responsibility for identifying the current threats and risks to locations and events in London and the consequent design of risk management strategies to provide protective security.
Steve is a leading authority on suicide terrorism, and was responsible for the development of tactics to counter the threat of suicide terrorism from international and domestic terror groups, including promulgating these tactics to agencies in the U.K. and overseas, with a focus on the aviation industry. Steve has also been involved in several Olympic and major sporting events. He worked with the Greek Authorities to ensure the safety and security of all UK participants and visitors to the Athens Olympics in 2004 and spent time in Beijing performing a similar function for the Beijing Public Safety Bureau for the 2008 Olympics. He was a partner in EU-SEC, a European Union sponsored United Nations project on security at major events in Europe.
He has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and is a Chartered Manager.