MEET THE TEAM BEHIND
 POLICE CYBERALARM

Nik Adams was appointed as Deputy Commissioner for the City of London Police in December 2024, performing the role of National Coordinator for Economic and Cyber Crime. He transferred as a Commander to the City of London Police in March 2022 from his previous role as National Coordinator for Prevent and Safeguarding Lead within Counter Terrorism Policing.

As Deputy Commissioner, Nik is focussed on overseeing national delivery of a number of functions including Report Fraud, the new national reporting service for fraud and cyber crime. He is responsible for the national Economic and Cyber Crime Academy and a diverse range of operational units within the City of London Police. These units tackle complex and specialist aspects of economic and cyber crime, and include partnership units specialising in intellectual property crime, insurance fraud and payment crime. He oversees the National Cyber Crime portfolio and is also the NPCC lead for the Financial Investigation, including money laundering asset recovery, and the NPCC lead for Electoral Malpractice.

Nik’s vision is to work with partners to disrupt the activity of criminals across the UK, and to improve the effectiveness of the policing response at a local, regional and national level, underpinned by good communication, a shared understanding of threats, risks, knowledge, information, skills and resources to develop innovative solutions. He is currently exploring some bold new approaches to our partnership response to tackling economic crime within the City of London.

Nik has been a police officer for 25 years and spent most of his service with West Yorkshire Police, working in Leeds, where he was the City Centre Commander and Neighbourhood Policing lead for South Leeds before his move into Counter Terrorism Policing.

Nick Bell is the Police CyberAlarm Lead within the NPCC National Cybercrime Team. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group and a former Detective Superintendent with extensive experience leading national and regional cybercrime, economic crime and digital forensics programmes.

With over 30 years’ policing experience, Nick’s focus is on strengthening cyber resilience for UK organisations while ensuring Police CyberAlarm delivers meaningful intelligence to support policing’s response to cybercrime.