Andy Fairbanks

With more than two decades of combined experience across policing, close protection, hostile environment operations and private security, Andy provides expert insight into the evolving threat landscape affecting retailers, businesses, public-facing organisations, high-net-worth individuals, and critical infrastructure. Andy is particularly recognised as an industry expert on retail crime and the changing nature of organised offending targeting the UK retail sector. Through UK Protection’s operational deployment across high-footfall retail environments, flagship locations and high-value commercial sites, he has developed extensive frontline insight into organised shoplifting, violent robbery, distraction thefts, hostile reconnaissance, repeat offending groups and the increasing professionalisation of organised retail crime networks. His expertise covers both opportunistic offending and highly organised criminality, including coordinated theft operations, smash-and-grab attacks, high-val