Fearless job is right up grandad's city streets

FORMER HIGH FLYER SWAPPED HIGH-PAID ROLE TO PATROL BIRMINGHAM

- NAOMI DESOUZA

A FORMER department head from a major security group says he hasn't looked back after ditching his high-paid job to patrol the streets of Birmingham.

Bryan Edwards now spends his days providing a different kind of security and said he “absolutely loves it”.

The 48-year-old grandad works as a patrol officer with the Central Business Improvement District (BID) after leaving his high-powered role in 2017.

Warm mannered and reassuring, Bryan works as part of the business crime reduction partnership, which involved Central BID, West Midlands Police and British Transport Police.

We met during a West Midlands Police Operation Fearless patrol, an initiative that began in January to crack down on troubled neighbourhoods in Birmingham.