Nikki Holland was born in 1968, to parents Maggie and Dave Hall and grew up in Maghull, a suburb of Liverpool. She attended St Andrew’s Primary School Maghull and Old Hall High School, now Maghull High, where she obtained eight O-Levels and then four A-Levels. At that time gun crime was unheard of and the first time Nikki was offered cannabis she was aged 16. She moved out of her parental home aged 19 when her mother downsized and she opted to join the police force becoming the fourth generation of her family to serve with the police. Joining in 1988 she was placed in Lower Lane, in the surrounding areas of Croxteth and Norris Green, where she walked the beat for two years, six months of which was with a tutor constable, and then independently from that point onwards. Her first day on independent patrol proved very different to an average police officer. On her lunch break in Fazakerley she had realised she had no money to get food and spotted a Halifax Building Society. Walking in, with head down looking into her bag for her cash card, she felt cold metal on her cheek and the gunman told her if she went for her radio "he'd blow my f***ing head off" she says. "I was under pressure but tried not to worry. I knew I had to do something so I managed to turn my radio on so back-up could hear." About to leave with the money, in a total stroke of luck, she tripped him and he fell in to the door and knocked himself out. Nikki said, "I got a commendation early on for that."
Following her promotion to uniform Superintendent in St. Helens in 2009, Nikki led the reduction of crime and disorder across every aspect of policing and was a key member of the Safeguarding Children Board and other partnership forums. Spending most of her time as a detective in Liverpool South and Sefton she was the lead on numerous murder inquiries, firearm discharge investigations and other major incidents. Three years later Nikki was again promoted to Chief Superintendant to become the Area Commander in Sefton between 2012 - 2014. During this time she led local policing, response policing, investigations and intelligence for one of the busiest command units in Merseyside and was Gold Commander and Senior Firearms Commander in a number of high profile incidents involving serious and organised crime which affected some of Merseyside’s most vulnerable communities.
In 2014 Nikki successfully passed the Senior Police National Assessment. She joined South Wales Police in June 2014 as Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Specialist Crime, which included the Joint Scientific Investigation Unit, Major Crime and Force Intelligence. She was also the Regional ACC for Tarian (Regional Organised Crime Unit) and Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit taking the Chief Officer strategic lead role on numerous Counter Terrorism, Drug, Cyber and International CSE operations. In January 2015, Nikki returned back to Merseyside as ACC with responsibility for investigation, intelligence, serious and organised Crime and TITAN Regional Organised Crime Unit where her role was leading the North West’s fight against serious and organised crime. She also had operational staff and teams focused on cybercrime and Child Sexual Exploitation throughout the region.
In April 2017, Nikki was again promoted this time to Director of Investigations in the National Crime Agency (NCA), having responsibility for the management of NCA Investigations, in response to serious and organised crime. She also had responsibility in her portfolio for specialist investigations, border command, economic crime, serious crime review, child sexual abuse and exploitation, economic crime, specialist support including the armed operations unit, forensics and technical operations alongside all national investigations.
In 2018 she became the NCA lead for County Lines, working
closely with Assistant Commissioner Duncan Ball to tackle high level
criminals exploiting vulnerable people and children to transport drugs
across the UK. In December 2018 this
former Assistant Chief Constable, now Director of Investigations at the
National Crime Agency, was awarded a Queen's Police Medal in the Queen’s
New Year Honours for her work with Merseyside Police. Once again representing law enforcement at a Home
Affairs Committee Enquiry early in January 2019.
Nikki is a PIP 3 accredited Senior Investigation Officer and a Strategic Firearms and Public Order Commander and also has a BSC (Honours) in Psychology and a Masters’ Degree in Forensic Psychology.
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