Kelly
Bradshaw
Superintendent Kelly Bradshaw is currently the acting Director General responsible for Financial Crime and Cybercrime within the Federal Policing Criminal Operations at RCMP NHQ since December 2019. She holds a Bachelor of Sports Science from the University of New Brunswick, and in 2004, obtained a Master Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution through the Royal Roads University, which includes receiving the Founders’ Award for having exemplified qualities of leadership, sustainability and personal development.
Through her career in the RCMP, Kelly has worked in Technical and Protective Operations, National Security Threat Assessment units, Operational Training Units, and Technical Investigation Services where she supported and was the Officer in Charge of Tactical Operations leading teams of investigators, technicians and engineers for cover and tactical investigations into Organized Crime and National Security across Canada.
She became a commissioned officer in 2014 in the role of Officer in Charge of Operational Information Management within Federal Policing National Security.
In 2017, Kelly took a six-month assignment, as a Transnational Organized Crime subject matter expert within the Police Division, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City where she helped prepare the UN to implement serious and organized crime units in UN missions, specifically in West Africa. Prior to becoming the acting DG of Financial Crime and CyberCrime, Supt. Bradshaw accepted the position of Canadian police contingent commander and strategic police planner for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). There, she led, and supervised, the Canadian police contingent as the senior Canadian police officer in Mali. As the strategic planner, she represented the police component in mission-level planning and reporting activities in the first ever Integrated Strategic Planning Unit in a UN mission.