T S/Chief Inspector Patrick Rarden MBE

City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate

 

Patrick is a T S/Chief Inspector in the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate and represents the City of London Police on the ‘Terrorist Finance Experts Working Group’ of the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Task Force (JMLIT). He was the first reservist police officer to join the Economic Crime Directorate working on major financial system related cases in 2010 and was appointed MBE for Services to Policing in 2014. He is an officer in the British Army Reserve.

Patrick is a senior consultant who was Finance Lead in the HMG C-Daesh Taskforce from October 2015 to end of March 2017. This involved providing subject matter expertise on counter threat/terrorist finance from a government and private sector perspective taking into account the particular challenges that Daesh represented. He represented HMG at the Counter ISIL Finance Group Coalition meetings in addition to giving evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee investigation into Daesh Finance and presenting at the UN Counter Terrorism Conference in New York in December 2016. He has worked closely with the United States Treasury and other co-leads in the C-ISIL Coalition. In particular he worked with the US State Department and the oil industry in putting together a list of spare parts that the Daesh needed for their hydrocarbon activities and has an extensive knowledge of the issues of dual use goods and the challenges that regulating these in regard to non-state actors bring.

Before 2015, Patrick worked in the front office, institutional side of investment banking as an equity trader, sales person and sales trader after graduating from Worcester College, Oxford in 1989 and has extensive experience in the trading and managing of asset classes and working across Europe with a multi jurisdictional client base. He is a fluent German speaker and has worked in Germany, France, Switzerland, Ireland and the UK in his 26 year career in banking

Patrick was a Trustee Director of the national Fraud Advisory Panel from 2011 to 2015 and is a member of the Institute of Directors.