Meet The Team

‘Gary Pettengell has 20 years experience of crime reduction and community engagement work. He started one of the UK’s most successful national, business crime reduction partnerships in 2001 and chairs the National Security Symposium for the UK’s gaming and leisure industry.

He has worked on several local, national and international crime reduction and community engagement projects for which he has won several awards. One of these projects has been made the subject of a case study by the United Nations in New York. In April 2007 He was voted “Person of the Year” in Lithuania for his work helping migrant communities and is the only foreign national ever to be awarded the Angel Guard Medal of Honour for policing excellence in Lithuania.

In August 2007 Pettengell introduced the UK’s first and only national self exclusion program for problem gamblers and has developed the only independent, international database and self exclusion program to tackle problem gambling via the internet. He is currently working to introduce Alcohol Self Exclusion across the UK and helping communities tackle crime and anti-social behaviour with the introduction of SIRCS.’

To contact Gary please call +44(0)1502 576888 or email gary@empowering-communities.org