About Chris Dyer

Chris Dyer has been working in the criminal justice field for over 20 years and is presently the Transform Programme Manager for TCFCT and part of The Home Office’s National Ending Gang & Youth Violence team.

Most recently as a senior officer for Birmingham’s Community Safety Partnership (BCSP), he was the Strategic Lead for Urban Street Gangs and Youth Crime prior to taking voluntary redundancy in April 2011. He was the Vice Chair of Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence 1 (BRGV), a member of the management team of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit and lead officer within the Partnership arena around Safeguarding. He led the creation and development of the Urban Street Gangs Young Persons Panel, wrote all associated Safeguarding policy and procedure and led on the specification and commissioning of specialist ‘gang specific’ services, particularly around the high risk end of the agenda. He also chaired and ran all aspects of the City’s first ever formal ‘Gang Call In’.

Prior to this he was the BCSP lead around neighbourhood crime and Safer Estates Groups and managed the review and subsequent implementation of the City’s tactical response to serious Anti-Social Behaviour at a neighbourhood level and many other operational areas of delivery aimed at making Birmingham a safer city.

He started working in the City in 2002, seconded for two years as a Senior Consultant from Crime Concern, managing the pan Birmingham Safer Neighbourhood Programme. This was awarded the European Crime Prevention Award in 2004. Prior to this he worked in Wolverhampton, managing the Low Hill Neighbourhood Safety Programme; this was awarded a British Community Safety Award in 2001.

Chris’s early career was spent working with high risk adolescents and young adults. He was the registered Officer in Charge of the Wallace House Group for several years, followed by several years as a senior operational manager for the same and sister organisations. During this decade of experience he had responsibility for large scale staff group and organisational management, business development and the managing of multiple high risk offenders in the community. These cases varied from murderers, to child sex offenders to prolific car thieves and burglars.

Contact Chris at chris.dyer@tcfct.org.