James Gamble, QPM (born November 1959) is a British former police officer and head of Belfast region for the now disbanded RUC Special Branch.

Gamble was the head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) Centre in the United Kingdom until 2010, and is now CEO of the INEQE Safeguarding Group.

[4][6] Gamble led the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) fight against child sex abuse.

He also presided over Operation Ore.[7] He led the work to set up the National Crime Squad's specialist response cell – the Paedophile and Online Investigation Team (POLIT).

Gamble has been called to give evidence at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) on two occasions.