12th National Analyst’s Conference,

26-27 November 2025 - Online Conference

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Agenda now live for this event that is a ‘must attend’ for all crime and intelligence analysts who want to enhance and develop their skills and operational performance.

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It has become one of the highlights in the calendar of UK and international analysts.

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It features a packed line up of practitioners from the analysis community who will share their best practice and provide a forum for networking and debate.

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It brings together a dynamic community of highly engaged and motivated analysts from the UK and across the world to celebrate all that is great about being an analyst.

 

Previous events have been attended by analysts from police forces, other government and law enforcement agencies as well as the wider public and private sector. All analysts are welcome to attend from all organisations.

 

This event will be held online via Teams.

 

Presentations at this event include:

• National Police Chief’s Council National Data and Analytics Office

• Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS)

• MO2 Met Intelligence

• National Economic Crime Centre

• Threat and Risk Assessment, Capability, Exploration and Research (TRACER), National Crime Agency

• International Criminal Court

• National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) Subgroup for Analysts and Secondary Investigators

• Tacking Organised Crime and Exploitation Programme (TOEX)

• UK chapter of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analyst (IALEIA)

• Devon and Cornwall Police

• West Yorkshire Police

• Liverpool John Moores University.

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AGENDA - GMT

Day One

9am-9.10am: Welcome and introduction, Carol Jenkins, The Investigator

 

9.10am-10am: Bringing Consistency to Chaos: An Introduction to the National Police Chief’s Council National Data and Analytics Office and the innovative operational tools it has developed, Kate Fisher Stevens, Katie Holly and Lucy Trinder.

 

10am-10.50am: Technology enabled Violence Against Women and Girls: The Impact on Investigations, Lauren Slater, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Threat and Risk Assessment, Capability, Exploration and Research (TRACER), National Crime Agency.

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10.50am-11.10am: Break

 

11.10am-12pm: Innovative use of mobile device attribution in Operation Foxbrier: A complex investigation into firearms offences where offenders used multiple mobile phones as part of their offending, Matt Mills, Operational Intelligence Analyst, Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, Protective Services, Crime, West Yorkshire Police.

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12pm-12.40pm: Writing local serious and organised crime assessments using common analytical standards to ensure frequent engagements with customers and SMEs in a bid to drive forward local intelligence requirements and feed into the annual assessment process: Zoi Milia, Lead Intelligence Analyst. MO2 Met Intelligence, Met Police.

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12.40pm-1pm: Break

 

1pm-1.50pm: ‘Signals from Noise: TRACER’s Horizon Scanning Process: Matt Penfold, Horizon Scanning Team Lead, Threat and Risk Assessment, Capability, Exploration and Research (TRACER), National Crime Agency.

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1.50pm-2.40pm: How the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS) is providing analytical support to serious sexual offence investigations including the use of external databases to identify and locate suspects: Liz Abraham, Senior Crime Analyst and Tom Crocker, Crime Analyst, SCAS.

 

2.40pm-3.30pm: Connecting the Dots: Using intersectionality in Analysis to Reveal Gendered Strategies of Mass Violence, Maria Sanchez, Associate Analyst, International Criminal Court.

 

3.30pm-4.10pm: Operation Hyphenate: An intelligence led operation around the activities of youths involved in criminality which has led to a multi-agency approach being adopted, this has helped widen knowledge of the offending and divert youths away from criminal behaviour, Steve French, Intelligence Analyst, Devon and Cornwall Police.

 

4.10pm-5pm: Using the Research Project Lifecycle: How analysts can design better interventions and add value to evaluations, Tori Olphin, MBE, Director of Research and Data Science and fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

 

5pm: Day one finishes

 

Day Two

9am-9.10am: Welcome and introduction, Carol Jenkins, The Investigator

 

9.10am-10am: Supporting the Wellbeing of Analysts and Secondary Investigators: Sarah Jayne Bray, Programme Manager National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) Subgroup for Analysts and Secondary Investigators, NPCC Recruitment, Retention and Wellbeing of Investigators portfolio.

 

10am-10.50am: Launch of first UK chapter of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analyst (IALEIA): Amy O’Neill, UK Chapter President and UK Senior Analyst.

 

10.50am-11.10am: Break

 

11.10am-12pm: A target systems analysis of international controller networks and their role in financial crime: Dominic MacIver, Manager, Illicit Finance Research and Insights, National Economic Crime Centre.

 

12pm-12.50pm: Key Communication Skills for Analysts: Best practice around written communication and public speaking and presentations, Helen Taylor, analyst and crime trainer (intelligence), West Yorkshire Police.

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12.50pm-1.20pm: Lunch

 

1.20pm-2.20pm: National police roll-out of the Capabilities Environment, a secure platform that hosts a suite of innovative analytical solutions to support complex investigations involving organised exploitation: T/DCI Pat Thompson, Technical Lead, Tacking Organised Crime and Exploitation Programme (TOEX) and Jack Lambourne, Lead Systems Developer, TOEX.

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An insight into a new App called Scan Assist being developed by TOEX that can bring disconnected data sets together (MISPER records, intelligence records and partnership data) and automate the network links between them, Jack Lambourne, Lead Systems Developer, TOEX.

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2.20pm-3.10pm: Leveraging Open-Source Intelligence Techniques (OSINT) to Disrupt Criminal Organisations Targeting Minors: Clara Galiano Lopez, Associate Analyst, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court and Irina Belova, Senior Intelligence Analyst

 

3.10pm-4pm: Understanding police culture and its implications for engagement: Naomi Davis-Crane, former Head of Analysis and now Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

 

4pm:  Conference closes.

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HOW TO BOOK

Cost: £275 + VAT (GBP) per delegate (LEA and Government Agency rate).  £315 + VAT (Industry rate), if booked before 30/09/2025.

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Cost: £305 + VAT (GBP) per delegate (LEA and Government Agency rate).  £345 + VAT (Industry rate), if booked after 01/10/2025.

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Group bookings: We offer various discounts for group bookings depending on numbers, please contact us for details.

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Booking: Please send the delegates name(s), email address(es) and purchase order (made out to The Investigator) to booking@the-investigator.co.uk or telephone +44(0)844 660 8707 for further information. 

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Payment can be made by PayPal/debit/credit card. ​The meeting link will be sent out 7 days before the event.

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For speaker opportunities email: carol@the-investigator.co.uk

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For sponsorship opportunities email: dale@the-investigator.co.uk

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13th National Analyst’s Conference, 20-21 May 2026, Denham Grove Hotel, Buckinghamshire, UK, sponsored by i2

 

Booking is also live for our Thirteen National Analyst’s Conference. Further details HERE

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