Lee Barnard MBE

Lee Barnard MBE is a senior safeguarding, security and intelligence leader with more than 28 years’ experience in the Metropolitan Police Service. His career has focused on domestic abuse, stalking and harassment, honour-based abuse, forced marriage, hate crime, adult safeguarding and the management of high-harm offenders. He is recognised as one of the UK’s most experienced practitioners in behavioural threat assessment and stalking risk management.

 

As founder and operational lead of the Stalking Threat Assessment Centre, Lee developed a pioneering multi-agency model bringing together policing, NHS mental health specialists, probation and specialist advocacy to improve victim protection and offender management. He has held national policy responsibility for domestic abuse, honour-based abuse, forced marriage, stalking, harassment and hate crime, and led Operation Dauntless, the largest domestic abuse initiative in MPS history. Lee brings to Indaba deep expertise in hidden harm, behavioural threat assessment, safeguarding risk, high-harm offender management and multi-agency system design.