Dr. Simon Rose

Simon Rose joined the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing in January 2022, becoming the Chief Executive Officer later that year. He had left the Metropolitan Police Service after 30 years that included senior command at New Scotland Yard. As Detective Chief Superintendent, he led the Met’s Intelligence Department, overseeing nearly 1500 officers and staff across London, the Southeast and overseas. His career included roles in anti-corruption, Special Branch, Borough Command, and senior leadership of crime and intelligence functions across the capital.

 Simon has extensive international teaching and training experience in Cambridge and has delivered courses for UK police forces, the U.S. State Department, and the National Police Academy of India, Brazil and The Republic of South Africa. He has managed analyst apprenticeship programmes and lectured widely on intelligence systems and policing practice. He has also directed consultancy projects for the UK Home Office, the College of Policing, and police forces in England and Wales, including evaluation of the Government’s GRIP violence reduction funding as well as designing and implementing crime solvability screening tools for multiple forces.

 Simon holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, a Master’s degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management from the University of Cambridge and completed his PhD in volume crime solvability and algorithmic decision-making at the University of Cambridge in 2025.