EMII Breakfast Briefing: Learning from the Manchester Arena Inquiry

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/02/2026
8:10 am - 10:30 am

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• Breakfast Briefing
• Location: DCU Business School

Biography – Scott Wilson IPM, M.A, FICPEM, CSyP

A highly commended and proficient counter terrorist specialist.

Between 2014 and 2018, as Detective Chief Superintendent, Scott was the National Coordinator for Protect & Prepare at New Scotland Yard. He is an experienced senior investigating officer, also specialising in bomb scene management, disaster victim identification and homicide.

He uses his experience to train at educational and police academies across the world. Scott was Head of Emergency Planning for the Metropolitan Police between 2010 and 2012 and delivered the emergency plans for the London Olympic Games.

Scott had a highly decorated police career. He has attained 16 commendations, including those for detective ability, innovation, persistence and dedication, leadership, professionalism and commitment, as well as receiving the 9/11 International Police Medal for extraordinary and distinguished achievement in San Diego in 2016.

As National Coordinator Protect and Prepare, he provided strategic oversight of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, the national network of Counter Terrorism Security Advisors, and all police and military partners, ensuring delivery of greater visibility, co-operation and effectiveness. He led policing response to high-risk threats, working with partners to build resilience within the critical national infrastructure and develop strategies and capability to assist post-incident recovery. He regularly attended UK Government COBR meetings, advising Government officials and Ministers on protective security within policing. He was the strategic police lead for International Protect and Prepare, with teams working worldwide.

Scott has been a senior associate of the UK Resilience Academy for the past 12 years. He specialises in the delivery of strategic and tactical management and debrief courses, together with bespoke security management programmes.

Between 2019 and 2022, Scott was appointed as the policing and counter terrorism subject matter expert working to the Chair, Sir John Saunders. Over that period, more than 1,000 pages of reports were submitted and over 10,000 exhibits were examined and analysed by the experts and presented during the inquiry.

In 2023, together with a retired FBI agent, Scott was appointed as the Policing and Counter Terrorism subject matter expert to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand in March 2019.

In 2024/25, Scott was contracted as the Policing and Security subject matter expert to the Westfield Bondi Junction Inquest in Sydney, working to the New South Wales Crown Office.

Scott offers extensive working knowledge in leadership, crisis management, homicide and counter terrorism as a former SO15 Senior Investigation Officer and former Head of Scotland Yard SO15 Forensic Management Team.

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