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CJ Global was created in 2001 when its founder, Terry Hobbs, retired from London’s Metropolitan Police as a senior ranking career detective with 31 years' exemplary service. He was immediately employed by a FMCG global corporation in their head office in London working in their brand integrity / intelligence unit for 12 years.
This dedicated team had responsibility to develop and maintain a global intelligence overview and manage investigations involving the company brands. Terry Hobbs is a professional investigator and intelligence operative. He served 31 years with the Metropolitan Police (MPS) in London, 12 years as a Senior Investigations' Manager with a multi-national company and has recently established his own company to continue his work against Illicit Trade activities.
He joined the Police Service in 1970 and retired in 2001 at the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. The probationary 2 years were spent in uniform, thereafter he focussed his career in the Criminal Investigation Department serving in a variety of stations within the London area investigating serious crimes such as murder, rape and other serious assaults.
As a respected detective he was selected to serve in ‘Specialist Operations’ at Scotland Yard, the Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police:
The Organised Crime Branch - The Flying Squad (on two occasions), with responsibility for proactively developing intelligence and evidence about organised criminals engaged in a wide variety of offences including Armed Robbery, Drug and Firearms Trafficking.
The Criminal Intelligence Branch - Managing the Metropolitan Police Informant Department on behalf of the Director of Intelligence, representing the MPS on the National Informant Steering Group, developing a national strategy and policies for the use and handling of informants. Terry devised the Reward Matrix to assess the value of rewards for information / intelligence given by informants which was adopted as national policy. As a trained Hostage Negotiator he was a member of a specialist team, responding to incidents of Kidnap and Extortion committed in the Greater London Area.
The Special Projects Team - Unit Commander of a self-sufficient team created specifically to investigate the most sophisticated organised criminals operating in London, which were beyond the capabilities of conventional policing. The responsibilities of this team included Financial Investigations to trace and recover the proceeds of organised crime, and the proactive investigation of Gangland Contracts to Kill.
On retiring from the MPS, Terry immediately joined a global Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company. Initially, this was as an Investigations' Manager working in their Brand Enforcement Group with responsibility to maintain a global intelligence overview, gather evidence and manage investigations of cases involving all aspects of Illicit Trade for the Group's brand portfolio. The offences involved in Illicit Trade are Counterfeiting, Cross Border Smuggling, Tax Evasion, Diversion of product, Money Laundering and Corruption. In this role he initially had specific responsibility for the regions of Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus and latterly - as a Senior Investigations Manager - for the Americas and Caribbean, until retiring in 2013 to start his own business.
In the commercial world, Terry devised and managed intelligence operations severely disrupting / dismantling well trodden smuggling routes in the Americas. He established Port Monitoring Intelligence operations in strategic ports in South America, including Panama, Iquique and Montevideo as well as others. To combat illicit trade activities in source countries, he developed a comprehensive intelligence network in the Southern Cone with the tri-border area of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina as the epi-centre. This identified the major Illicit producers, smugglers, distributors and syndicates involved - sophisticated organised crime with high level corrupt support, money trails and methods for Money Laundering. Proactive evidence gathering resulted in prosecutions involving clandestine Printers, Production Facilities, Major Distributers and Smuggling Syndicates.
The solution to illicit trade activities requires many different approaches, enforcement is one element. Terry devised a comprehensive approach to the problem by bringing together governments, enforcement and intelligence agencies, judiciary and industry in a series of international ‘Blue Sky’ workshops. From these seeds a ‘Formalisation of Industry’ project in Paraguay has been in progress for several years.
C J Global continues to develop intelligence and create investigations about illicit trade across all industries, connecting with all the appropriate government and investigation authorities.
