Glen Wimbury

Glen joined the Home Office in 1991 and has worked for the Prison Service, Her Majesty’s Passport Office and Border Force in a number of roles.  Significant work has included leading the counter-fraud and intelligence team in the London Passport Office and establishing a UK-wide major investigations team to handle high profile and national / international identity fraud.  He has undertaken and given training courses on fraud matters and has achieved accreditation as a Counter-Fraud Specialist with the University of Portsmouth.    

Since joining Border Force in 2005, he has worked on several high profile projects and programmes including IRIS (Iris Recognition Immigration System), Project miSense (a Registered Traveller proof of concept) and the ePassport Gates (ABC) systems.  Recently, he led the procurement of the next Generation of ePassport Gates which are currently being installed in UK air and rail ports.  These gates currently process over 12 million passengers a year, making the UK a world leader for this type of Border technology. 

Glen’s current role includes technical assurance and strategy for the provision of IT to Border Force in the UK.  He leads in a new area (Border Systems) which brings together the entire technology infrastructure to develop a strategic vision and capability to increase the security and efficiency of the UK Border by the intelligent deployment of automation and technology.