Experience

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  City of London Police (National Fraud Lead)

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Detective Sergeant: Fraud Investigations Manager

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Promoted to the Fraud Review Team within a major national government department at the heart of crime and fraud, accountable for safety and security of victims in 45 police areas. Working in partnership with Action Fraud and reporting to the Home Office. Supervising a team of intelligence officers to gather, develop and disseminate intelligence in support of local and national crime investigations in line with strategic policing requirements and specified priorities.• Supervising an intelligence team, conducting regular appraisals in line with organisational requirements, and offering advice and support for the development of team members.• Ensuring intelligence products meet national and local intelligence standards enabling the drive for continuous improvement.• Maintaining awareness of innovation within intelligence to ensure implementation of latest techniques and tactics, best practice, and information relevant to the role.• Enabling collaboration with colleagues in partner agencies to share data and intelligence to facilitate cross-sector working practices.• Providing specialist advice and guidance to decision makers to aid in the achievement of the operational outcomes.• Supervise and/or undertake intelligence gathering work that might be required within the intelligence unit to support and develop the specialist capabilities of the intelligence team and any investigative objectives.

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  Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Detective Constable: Cyber Investigator

    • Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Department of the City of London Police. Having responsibility to investigate and deter serious and organised intellectual property crime. Protecting consumers from harm, focusing on intellectual property crime that has public safety implications. Investigating intellectual property crime worth millions concerning counterfeit goods and digital piracy, and having suspended thousands of websites selling counterfeit goods. These websites have also been linked to identity theft.• Working alongside the creative industries to proactively disrupt online services being used to distribute copyrighted material.• Assisting brands in the disruption of online services being used in the sale of counterfeit goods received from key partners as intelligence.• Disrupting revenue streams of online criminals by managing a 'blacklist' and its associated permissions for payment providers and advertisement companies.• Establishing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships within law enforcement and the private sector.• Manipulating bulk data and assessing current trends and threats.

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  City of London Police (National Fraud Lead)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Detective Constable / A-Det Sergeant: Cyber Investigator

    • May 2016 - Dec 2019
    • London, United Kingdom

    Experienced in various cyber roles across two units:Cyber Prevention & Disruption Unit: specialist national police unit dedicated to protecting global industries that produce legitimate services. Dedicated to tackling and investigating serious and organised economic crime affecting physical and digital goods with a focus on offences committed using an online platform. I work with partner agencies to identify fraudulent entities that are operating both nationally and internationally committing fraud against victims.Undertaking the disruption of financial, professional and cyber enablers. Undertaking of restorative action by disabling websites, telephone numbers, bank accounts, and other cyber technological enablers that have been utilised or identified as facilitating fraud. Collate and proactively develop economic crime/intelligence so that the NFIB can provide local and national partners with actionable cyber crime products that will positively impact on victims and help tackle serious organised economic crime. Working with partner agencies to identify fraudulent cyber entities that are operating locally, nationally and internationally committing fraud against victims. Disrupting and takedowns of online cyber platforms, whilst creating actionable product for dissemination.

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  City of London Police

  • United Kingdom
  • Law Enforcement
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • A / Detective Sergeant, Evidence Review Officer

    • Sep 2011 - Apr 2016

    Use Information/Intelligence to support policing objectives and community safety and crime reduction objectives. Ensure that intelligence is used ethically and in accordance with the relevant legislation, policy, protocols and codes and practice. Conduct Intelligence driven briefings, taskings and debriefing.Maintain Standards for Security of Information: Maintain personal responsibility for gathering, recording, storing, accessing and sharing of information in compliance with information security policy, procedures and codes of practice and legislation.Deal with Grievances: Investigate grievances with sensitivity and in accordance with organisational grievance procedure. Address Disciplinary and Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures. Take prompt action to address performance that is below standard, carrying out organisational procedures fairly and in line with own level of authority.Managing and develop Individuals and teams to enhance performance: Develop the knowledge and skills of both team members and individuals to ensure the best possible results at work by identifying needs, planning their development and using a variety of activities to improve performance. Supervise the work of teams and Individuals: Supervise short and medium term objectives, develop plans, monitor work activities and regularly assesses the performance of teams and individuals to ensure that team objectives and performance indicators are achieved. Delegate work to others, give responsibility and authority to others for discrete pieces of work, agreeing with them the targets they need to achieve, advising and supporting them in what they do.Carry out performance reviews: Complete a fair and objective review of individual performance, recognising personal achievements and identifying areas for future development. Conduct Internal Quality Assurance of the Assessment Process Monitor, review and evaluate the internal assessment processes within the organisation.

  • Detective Constable, Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

    • Aug 2002 - Sep 2011

    Conducting of serious and complex investigations, including the interviewing of victims, witnesses, and suspects.

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  Thames Valley Police

  • Slough, United Kingdom

  • Police Constable, Uniform Policing Department

    • Apr 2000 - Aug 2002
    • Slough, United Kingdom

    Various policing and investigation duties.