Phil Butler Esq.

 

Phil Butler - Professional Summary:     Phil Butler LLb Hons is a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Fraud and retired in June 2009 as head of Economic Crime for Northumbria Police having 30 year's police service, including 25 years investigating serious and organized crime.  Upon leaving Northumbria Police Chief Constable Mike Craic described ADCI Butler's conduct as 'exemplary'.

 

In 1997 he became head of the Northumbria Police Detective Training Unit and was responsible for designing and delivering investigative training for the police and outside agencies including Department Work Pensions, Benefit Agency and HM Revenue and Customs. Following the Stephen Lawrence case and the subsequent McPherson enquiry, DI Butler was one of 5 training experts recruited by the National Crime Faculty at the Police Staff College to design training for Senior Investigating Officers. He was also instrumental in introducing the service to the British Institute of Human Rights and piloted Police Human Rights Training nationally.

 

In 2002 he was appointed head of the Northumbria Police Economic Crime Unit, and became a member of the European Steering Group for Combating Hi Yield and Prime Bank Instrument Fraud. In 2003 he founded the North East Fraud Forum, chairing the Steering Group. This is an anti fraud initiative supported by the Home Office and US Treasury Department aimed at bringing the public and private sector closer together to reduce and prevent fraud. There are now 9 similar Fraud Forums across the United Kingdom. In 2004 and 2005 he gave presentations on Fraud Forum work to the Institute of Banking Law and Practice, Washington DC, the United Nations International trade and Law Commission, Vienna, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime In Vienna, OLAF the EU fraud Investigation department and the European Commission in Brussels. He is at present in the process of establishing the European Fraud Forum Network.

 

As the Senior Investigating Officer for Economic Crime he was the Chief Financial Investigator for Northumbria Police responsible for the management of all investigations into serious fraud offences, organized crime, money laundering and high tech crime investigations.

 

He worked closely with the Serious Fraud Office for 10 years and was the Senior Investigating Officer for 2 protracted serious fraud investigations both of which led to guilty pleas and convictions for fraud offences involving a joint total of over £300 million.As the Chief Financial Investigator he designed the Northumbria Police Asset Recovery strategy, recruited over 40 financial investigators and took confiscations from criminals in the North East from £100,000 in 2002 to £3.5 million in 2009. This realised a net asset return from the Home Office to Northumbria Police and partners in incentivisation payments of over £1 million pounds helping to fund community based crime-fighting schemes.As such he was the designated strategic lead for joint investigations and partnership working, having direct experience of working jointly with HMRC Criminal Cases Unit, Serious Organised Crime Agency, Regional Asset Recovery Teams, Fraud Prosecution Service, Trading Standards and the Federation against Copyright Theft.

 

Phil Butler was the Single Point of Contact for Bribery and Corruption relating to lawyers, professionals, politicians and other elected officials for the North East of England and UK citizens committing Bribery and Corruption overseas. He was also the Single Point of Contact for any issues surrounding corruption or electoral fraud during local and national elections. During this time he was responsible for investigating many sensitive political investigations working with the Metropolitan Serious and Economic Crime Specialist Unit including the several high tech crime cases which featured in the national press and media.

His last orgainsed crime case led to convictions of the principal offenders for tax evasion, fraud and money laundering offences. This case involved over £10 million in assets and enquiries across the world using forensic accountants and economic crime specialists.

 

He is also regularly used as a training consultant delivering sessions in the U.K. and Europe. He is a visiting lecturer and sits on the Academic Standards Committee for the University of Teesside's Fraud Management, Financial Investigation degree course and Northumbria and Sunderland's University Computer Forensics degree programmes.

 

He has recently completed a 4-year programme, training all EU OLAF Fraud Investigators in investigating, detecting and disrupting serious and organized fraud. In April 2006 he visited the Ministry of the Interior, Warsaw, as part of an EU expert Group and provided advice on establishing an anti corruption bureau and tackling anti counterfeiting, smuggling bribery and corruption as part of the Polish Government's Anti Corruption strategy. Phil Butler has also recently provided advice to H.M. Government's Strategic Fraud Authority,

 

Phil Butler is a leading law enforcement expert, has written many articles and features in a leading fraud reference book.

 

In 2007 he led the Hadrian Project a consortium of the regions 3 police forces, universities, businesses and public sector agencies in an initiative to research ‘future' crimes. This led directly to the establishment in December 2008 of the Newcastle University Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security of which he is the Director of External Relations. - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/research/cyber-crime-and-security/

 

In October 2009 he became a Director of AVER Chartered Accountants specialising in insolvency, asset management and forensic accountancy.

 

In November 2009 he became Director of isafely the safer Internet company - www.isafely.co.uk

 

 

Phil Butler - Professional Experience:     Phil retired from Northumbria Police after 30 years service and his conduct was described by the Chief Constable as, "Exemplary." He spent the last 10 years of his service tackling organised crime and building up the Fraud Forum network.

 

 

Phil Butler - Education:     Phil received a Secondary Modern education in Newcastle Upon Tyne and later studied at Northumbria University part time for 5 years and attained a LLb hons law degree.

 

 

Phil Butler - Interests:     Phil is the drummer in a local Band with 200 gigs over 18 years. He enjoys life in the slow lane in his 1972 VW Camper van and 1975 VW Beetle!

 

 

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North East Fraud Forum

Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security
Director of External Realtions

Isafely
Director