Simon Andrews was a police officer for 30 years, most of his service was as a detective.

For fifteen years he served in the Metropolitan Police Service SO13 Anti-Terrorist Branch and SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, where he remained until retirement in 2018.

The majority of those years was spent in the forensic team where he specialised in post blast and counter terrorism scene investigation and management, forensic evidence retrieval, exhibit management, disaster victim identification and body recovery.

He was actively involved in most of the major terrorist scenes and investigations within London, the UK as well as various foreign deployments in the Middle East, Far East and Africa.

Upon retirement, he worked as a specialist counter terrorism forensic trainer, delivering numerous courses within the UK and abroad for law enforcement organisations and for the British military.

He is a qualified trainer and an occasional lecturer for Greenwich University.