Our Crime Fiction Experts

Graham Bartlett

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LEAD ADVISOR

  • Crime Investigation Including Homicide
  • Offender Management
  • Domestic Violence
  • Safeguarding Children and Adults
  • Firearms
  • Public Order

Kate Bendelow

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CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR

  • Crime Scene Investigation
  • Crime Scene Management
  • Forensics

Raj Kholi

Raj Kholi

MET POLICE. SENIOR LEADERSHIP. GANGS

  • Metropolitan Police operations, structure and senior leadership
  • Serious youth violence, gangs and county-lines
  • Firearms policing
  • Critical incident and Major Events management
  • Command structures, procedures and internal politics

G D Wright

Crime Expert G D Wright

UNIFORM POLICING

• Family Liaison
• Response Policing
• Advanced Driving
• Proactive Operations
• Public Order
• Training
• Disabilities in Policing

Dan Roberts

Crime Expert Dan Roberts

OPERATIONAL FRONTLINE & COVERT POLICING

  • Response (999) Policing
  • Public Order Policing
  • CID and Regional investigations
  • Covert and Special Operations Policing
  • Control Room and Call Management experience.

Dr Julie Roberts

Dr Julie Roberts

FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

  • Search and excavation of clandestine graves.
  • Identification and interpretation of decomposed, burnt, and dismembered human remains.
  • Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
  • Environmental evidence, e.g., pollen, soils, plants, and applications in criminal investigations.
  • Expert Witness
  • Osteoarchaeology and Palaeopathology (study of past populations and human remains)

Dr Vicky

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  • Public Order Policing
  • Police Uniform
  • County Policing
  • Women in Policing

Andy Marsland

Andy Marsland
  • Prisons and Youth Custody
  • Corruption management
  • Youth Justice policy and process
  • Incident Management

Naomi Jeacock

Naomi Jeacock
  • Women in prison
  • High Security prisoners
  • Suicide and self-harm
  • Court Custody 
  • GPS and curfew tagging
  • Operational management of serious incidents

Simon Stone

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FIREARMS. PUBLIC ORDER. POLICING LONDON

  • Firearms
  • VIP Visits
  • Public Order
  • Front Line Policing
  • Policing London
  • Tactical Command

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson

COVERT POLICING

  • Informant Handling
  • Organised Crime
  • Proactive Investigations
  • Tracking Child Abusers
  • Child Protection
  • Investigating Child Murders

David Smart

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COUNTER TERRORISM COMMAND

  • Terrorism Investigations
  • Prevent
  • Violent Extremism
  • Diplomatic and Royalty Protection
  • All policing topics

Lewis Hastings

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INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

  • Intelligence – Collection and Analysis
  • Behavioural Detection
  • Transnational Organised Crime: People Groups
  • International Borders, Aviation and Maritime Security
  • Natural Disaster Incident Response

Stephen Bentley

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UNDERCOVER POLICING

  • Criminal Law prosecution and defending
  • Mental Health

Dr Angela Buckley

Dr Angela Buckley
  • Victorian and Edwardian police detectives (the Met and in regional cities)
  • Early policing and investigative practice
  • Historical crime cases
  • The development of forensic science
  • The history of prisons and punishment
  • The Victorian underworld

Louise Pye

Louise Pye

FAMILY LIAISON

  • Disaster Victim Identification
  • Major Incidents
  • Murder Investigations

Casey King

Marie O'Halloran

AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA

  • Republic of Ireland Policing
  • General Policing
  • Organised Criminal Gangs
  • Drugs
  • Terrorism

Jim Smith

Jim Smith

POLICE SCOTLAND

  • Murder and Serious Crime Investigations
  • Holmes
  • Casualty Bureau
  • Child Rescue Alert
  • Public Safety Events

Brian Cook

Brian Cook

POLICE SCOTLAND

  • Operational policing and command
  • Firearms
  • Public order
  • Specialist search
  • Negotiator
  • Professional standards

Bruce Mathews

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FIREARMS TACTICAL COMMAND

  • Armed Policing
  • Post Incident Management
  • Public Order
  • Counter Corruption

David Paul

David Paul

JOURNALIST

  • Journalists in major investigations
  • Journalists’ relationships with detectives
  • How Press help and hinder investigations/ trials
  • Crown Court trial reporting
  • Impact of Press on victims’ families

Paul Weall

Paul Weall

DIGITAL FORENSICS

  • Presenting Complex Cases in Court
  • Caribbean Policing

Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson Expert Advisor

POLICE / MILITARY LIAISON - All policing topics, especially

  • Metropolitan Police
  • Security Services
  • Royal Military Police
  • Pre PACE Policing
  • Hostage and Crisis Negotiator
  • PTSD

Gary Clarke

Gary Clarke

PRISONS

  • Offender Management
  • Men's Mental Health

Nigel Adams

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FIRE INVESTIGATION

  • Explosion Investigation
  • Fire Service Procedure
  • Partnership Work
  • Expert Witness

Lesley McEvoy

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PSYCHOLOGIST

  • Behavioural Analyst
  • Expert on Psychopathy

Harry Colfer

Harry Colfer Critical Care Expert

CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDIC

  • Paramedic Procedures
  • Emergency Scene Management
  • Traumatic Injuries & Acute Illnesses
  • Ambulance Practices

Grenville Wilson

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STRATEGIC POLICING COMMAND

  • Public Order
  • Firearms
  • Professional Standards
  • Prisons

Dr Emma Donnelly

Emma Donnelly

CLINICAL FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST

  • Assessment of Violent and Sexual Offenders
  • Child Sexual Abuse
  • Mental Health
  • Personality Disorders
  • Psychopathy

Ruth Mancini

Ruth Mancini

CRIMINAL DEFENCE

  • Police Station Duty Solicitor
  • Criminal Defence
  • Court Advocacy

Neil White

Neil-White

SOLICITOR

  • Criminal Justice Prosecution & Defence
  • Courts
  • Sentencing

Simon Andrews

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COUNTER TERRORISM EXPERT

  • IED and Bomb structure
  • Forensic Investigation of Terrorist Scenes
  • International Counter Terrorist Operations
  • Disaster Victim Identification
  • Body Recovery

Brian Price

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SCIENTIST - Expert in

  • poisons
  • weapons
  • fires
  • explosions
  • body disposal
  • DNA and
  • new forensic developments.

Dr Chris Merritt

Chris Merritt

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

  • PTSD
  • Mental Health
  • NHS
  • UK Government
  • War Zones
  • Diplomatic Service

Martin Richards

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HOSTAGE AND CRISIS NEGOTIATOR

  • Kidnap. Extortion
  • Hostage and siege management
  • Firearms
  • Surveillance
  • Public Order
  • International policing
  • All policing topics

Marion Sandwell

Marion Sandwell

YOUTH JUSTICE

  • Firearms and Operational Command
  • Dogs
  • General Policing

Dr B R Dexter

Dr B R Dexter

EMERGENCY AND ACUTE MEDICINE

  • Acute Medicine
  • Treatment of Trauma
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Practice
  • Pandemic Medicine

Dr Anita Donley OBE

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CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN

  • Acute Medicine
  • Expert in Older Persons' Health

Martin Fox

Martin Fox

POLICE CUSTODY

  • General Policing Procedures
  • Interview Techniques
  • Control and Restraint

Simon Hayes

Simon Hayes

COUNTER TERRORIST OPERATIONS

  • Armed policing command
  • Response policing
  • Safeguarding children and adults
  • Policing in rural areas, and large cities
  • Police search techniques

Jon Pettigrew

Jon Pettigrew

EXPERT ON 19TH CENTURY CRIME & POLICING

  • Victorian police forces
  • Early applied science and technology
  • Victorian law
  • Victorian prisons

Elliot Sweeney

Elliot Sweeney

MENTAL HEALTH LAW