
Richard Walton
Senior Fellow
Richard Walton is a former head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command and an independent consultant. A former Commander at New Scotland Yard, Richard Walton was Head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) between 2011-2016 having spent the majority of his thirty-year policing career in the counter-terrorism field. Richard was Head of Counter Terrorism for London during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. He is currently Director of Counter Terrorism Global Ltd, a company that facilitates the design and implementation of solutions for countering terrorism and extremism to governments, private corporations and NGOs. He has travelled extensively to countries affected by terrorism, providing advice to governments in South and South-East Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. He lectures in the UK and is a regular key note speaker at international conferences on counter-terrorism and counter-extremism He is an on-air Counter Terrorism commentator for CBS News and regularly presents on British and international media networks. Richard is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and a Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He holds a BSc Hons degree in Policing and Police Studies from Portsmouth University and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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Extremism Rebellion
by Richard Walton | Jul 16, 2019
Related Content Extinction Rebellion has mainstreamed the politics of a radical fringe The people behind Extinction Rebellion advocate a political agenda with ambitions that reach far beyond environmentalism. It is a campaign that seeks to use mass civil disobedience...
Islamophobia – Crippling Counter Terrorism
by Richard Walton | Apr 29, 2019
Related Content The impact on counter-terrorism policy and operations if the UK government adopts the definition of Islamophobia proposed by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims. Download Related Content Stay Up To DateJoin Our Mailing List The Agenda...
The Importance of Bilateral Collaboration in International Counter-Terrorism Investigations
by Richard Walton | May 30, 2017
Author A range of prominent voices – including my former colleague Sir Hugh Orde and former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – have expressed their concern that Brexit has made security cooperation harder and might have made Britain more vulnerable to terrorism. Are...Support Us
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