Director of Enabling Services Richard Elkin

Richard Elkin completed an Industrial Engineering apprenticeship within the motor industry before moving on to the water industry where he specialised in organisational and management review. He joined the Research and Development department of Warwickshire Police in 1986.

Richard has wide-ranging experience of reviewing organisational practice, process, structures and the delivery of business improvement through the application of new technology at both force and national level. He has held lead roles in Communications, Information Technology and Corporate Development within the force and was appointed Deputy Director of Resources in 2006, with responsibility for strategy development in respect of the forces physical assets (Information Management and Technology, Property and Transport) together with Learning and Development.

Richard is the senior technical lead nationally for Custody and Case Preparation, chairing the national technical user group and has held similar lead technical roles on other national change programmes such as the Airwave mobile communications service and Radio encryption. He also led work to develop the current national strategy for the police service in the area of service management and support.

In December 2011 he was appointed as Director of Enabling Serivces for the Alliance between Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police.  His portfolio includes Human Resources, Professional Standards, Legal Services, Performance, Corporate Communications, IT and Estate Services and Procurement across the two forces.