Shane Roberts

Shane is a Home Office policy official, now applying his knowledge and insight from a 30 year police career in tackling Organised Crime from local to international level, into designing and developing policies, practice and procedures to improve both the SOC system and operational response in tackling SOC.

As a Home Office policy professional Shane is the architect of the Clear-Hold-Build (CHB) operational framework to tackle SOC, having pioneered the concept, successfully led trials, gained government ministerial support and been instrumental in leading UK Policing’s national implementation programme of CHB, where he is regarded as the subject matter expert.

Shane has presented both nationally and internationally on all aspects of SOC, has written the National Lead Responsible Officer guidance, advised on legislation including the ‘Participation in SOC offence’ contributed to multiple HO Policy documents including SOC Strategy, Procurement Fraud, Troubled families and Local Profile Guidance, and is regularly called upon to conduct peer reviews on behalf of Forces and partner agencies responses to tackling SOC.

Shane is currently undertaking a PhD in Criminology at Keele University, with specific academic focus on Organised Crime which includes the Clear-Hold-Build (CHB) response to it, and future utility of CHB as an operational framework.