Gavin Morrison
Chief Architect @Police Digital Service
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Architect @Police Digital Service
London, GB
Provides overall architectural and strategic technology leadership for the Police Digital Service portfolio, enabling the successful delivery of the National Policing Digital Strategy in partnership with the Home Office, police forces, law enforcement agencies, and technology suppliers. Leads the development of enterprise architecture practice and standards across policing, embedding best practice and Secure by Design in national digital programmes.• Chairs the cross-organisation National Technical Design Authority (NTDA), aligning technology decisions and standards across forces and law enforcement agencies.• Established robust architecture governance frameworks and integrated Secure by Design principles across all PDS programmes and projects.• Provides architectural oversight for major national policing systems and platforms, ensuring coherence with strategic objectives and elimination of duplicated effort.• Oversaw the development of Microsoft Copilot blueprints for policing, enabling one of the first major deployments of AI in UK law enforcement while leveraging national standards. Authored an interim policy paper on Copilot that addressed broader considerations for AI in policing and law enforcement, including ethics, data protection, legal implications, and technical architecture.• Built and leads a growing multi‑tier architecture practice (team leads, principals and senior architects), developing a high-performing team of architects and technical specialists with capabilities informed by the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework to meet the expanding needs of national policing.• Engages senior stakeholders across policing, the Home Office, and partner agencies to drive consensus on technology strategy and ensure alignment with operational policing needs.
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ABOUT GAVIN MORRISON
Gavin is an accomplished technology leader in the public sector with over 14 years of experience delivering large-scale digital transformations through iterative, agile approaches and enterprise architecture strategies. He is currently the Chief Architect at the Police Digital Service (PDS), where he provides strategic technology leadership and leads a growing architecture practice. In this role, Gavin drives the implementation of the National Policing Digital Strategy in partnership with the Home Office, police forces, and law enforcement agencies, supporting over police officers, staff, and volunteers in delivering better public services. He is responsible for establishing architecture governance across policing and ensuring new digital solutions are Secure by Design and aligned to national standards.Gavin has a strong track record in technology strategy and stakeholder influence within complex, politically sensitive environments, working closely with senior executives and operational teams to align technological solutions with business objectives. He is highly adept at communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and translating business needs into actionable technology strategies. Gavin has led diverse technical teams and nurtured high-performing talent, having built and expanded national architecture functions from the ground up.His technical expertise spans cloud computing (including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Amazon Web Services) and legacy infrastructure modernisation, with particular depth in Microsoft enterprise technologies and collaboration platforms. He has been at the forefront of cloud adoption in sensitive environments – including leading the first migrations of UK police forces to Office 365 – and has a background in software automation and integration. Gavin is passionate about harnessing emerging technologies such as AI for public good and about establishing cross-cutting technology standards that enable innovation at scale within government.
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