Eddy Montgomery
Hoylake,Merseyside
Summary
Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in operational delivery, building and maintaining senior operational and political relations, crisis management, leadership excellence and safeguarding. Committed to leveraging skills to drive organisational success and uphold the highest standards of corporate and personal values.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Director, Enforcement, Compliance & Crime
Immigration Enforcement (IE)
, United Kingdom
09.2020 - 07.2025
Home Office - United Kingdom
- Leading 2500 civil servants across 33 locations in the UK responsible for arresting and detaining immigration offenders and identifying vulnerable and exploited individuals and promoting compliance of the immigration rules
- Responsible for £200m budget
- Member of Immigration Enforcement Executive Board
- Delivery of IE's operational response to contact management with over 90 000 migrants across the UK
- Disruption of organised immigration crime groups
- Leading IE's Law Enforcement Engagement and Safeguarding strategies
- Delivering IE's community engagement strategy and HO Senior Responsible Officer for Tackling Rough Sleeping
- Chair of the HO Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination group and IE People Champion
- Delivery of Operational Excellence across Immigration Enforcement
- Managing complex operational and political relationships with Devolved Administrations
Director, Immigration, Compliance & Enforcement
Immigration Enforcement
, England & Wales
12.2012 - 09.2020
Home Office - England & Wales
- Leading 800 immigration enforcement officers across England & Wales and 17 Reporting and Offender Management Centres
- Delivered IE's People Strategy
- Home Office - England & Wales
Director of Operations
UK Border Agency
, United Kingdom
04.2009 - 12.2012
UK Border Agency North West England
- Responsible for delivering end to end immigration process in the North West of England
- Delivering high quality asylum casework
- Established a centre of excellence for the Permanent Migration command including family routes, European settlement and British citizenship applications
- Delivered record levels of income in fee-based immigration casework and of civil penalty debt collection
- Led the NW arrest trained capability and 2 Reporting and Offender
- North West England
Deputy Director Case Resolution Directorate
UK Border Agency
Liverpool, United Kingdom
05.2006 - 12.2009
UK Border Agency Liverpool
- Responsible for 400 casework staff
- Reduced casework backlogs to frictional levels including the clearance of a politically toxic asylum caseload
- Reporting directly to Home Secretary on progress of backlog clearance
- Created innovative strategy to clear cases
- Negotiated with private contractors and other government departments to create an unprecedented data washing exercise
- Liverpool
Education
A level - Russian
Calday Grange Grammar School
WirralA level - French
A level - Business Studies
BA HONS - Russian with Serbo-Croat
University of Nottingham
09.1988 - 06.1992
Skills
- Operational leadership
- Building high performing teams
- Developing and maintaining senior stakeholder relations
- Crisis management expertise
- Leadership excellence
- Experience of living in Eastern Europe including Kiev
- Holds SC clearance to 2031
Languages
Russian
Upper intermediate
B2
Croatian
Intermediate
Ukrainian
Intermediate
B1
French
Intermediate
B1
Polish
Elementary
A2
Accomplishments
King's Long Service Good Conduct Medal Awarded 2023
Other Experience
- I have worked in public service over 30 years and currently lead the Enforcement, Compliance and Crime Directorate.
- I have driven cultural change across the HO, having a large number of corporate leads including IE People Champion, lead for IE response to Industrial Action, HO lead for Tackling Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination
- Home Office lead for Tackling Illegal Working and chair of cross-government Tackling Labour Market Abuse Board
- I have significant experience of working with ministers and senior stakeholders on some of the most politically challenging issues the Department has faced.
- Led transformation of a large operational command making and communicating difficult decisions to reduce the national footprint.
- Significant experience of representing the Home Office in media (TV, radio and print).
- Led HO response to crisis in Ukraine, establishing at pace visa processing facilities alongside FCDO in Poland
Timeline
Director, Enforcement, Compliance & Crime
Immigration Enforcement (IE)
09.2020 - 07.2025
Director, Immigration, Compliance & Enforcement
Immigration Enforcement
12.2012 - 09.2020
Director of Operations
UK Border Agency
04.2009 - 12.2012
Deputy Director Case Resolution Directorate
UK Border Agency
05.2006 - 12.2009
BA HONS - Russian with Serbo-Croat
University of Nottingham
09.1988 - 06.1992
A level - French
A level - Business Studies
A level - Russian
Calday Grange Grammar School
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