On becoming Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Brain embarked upon a programme of significant strategic change. The Force’s strategic plans, Vision5 and Vision 2010, have been recognised as leading examples of strategic management. His achievements include completing the first Tri-service (Police, Fire and Ambulance) Emergency Control Centre, creating new specialist investigative units to combat serious and organised crime, and receiving the Investors In People Award, becoming one of the few Police Forces to corporately achieve the standard. In January 2006 the Force completed a four-year project to build and occupy a new state of the art Headquarters. This was built under the Public Finance Initiative, and was concluded on time and under budget.[1]
He has been a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 1994 and, until his retirement, was one of the most senior Chief Constables in the country. He was the Association’s spokesperson on prostitution and related vice matters, taking a leading part in framing the Government’s policy dealing with child prostitution in 1998 and creating ACPO’s own prostitution strategy in 2004. He was chair of ACPO’s Finance Business Area, with national responsibility for financial matters. He was also Chair of the Chief Police Officers’ Staff Association (CPOSA). He led Gloucestershire’s response to the extensive flooding and water emergency of 2007.[1]
He has written extensively on a variety of police matters, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide range of police subjects including strategic leadership, performance management and anti-vice policing. He has been a critical reader for several publishing projects. He is member of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, advisory boards to the Department of History and Welsh History, and the School of Management and Business Studies. He was appointed Visiting Professor in Police Studies within the Faculty of Arts and Human Studies at London South Bank University in 2006 and Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 2007.[2] He announced his retirement as Chief Constable on the 1st June 2009, to take effect from the 1st January 2010.[3]

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