14th National Analyst’s Online Conference, 25-26 November 2026​

Conference Theme: How to Achieve as an Analyst: what are the factors that help you fulfil your potential?

 

Agenda now live!

Our 14th National Analyst’s Conference will consider the factors needed to help support analysts to be the best they can in an ever-changing, increasingly complex and challenging environment.

 

​The conference has become one of the highlights of the analyst’s calendar and a ‘must attend’ for analysts working in law enforcement and wider public and private sector.

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Held online via Teams.

 

Key Themes

• Keeping current and informed around national developments affecting the analyst’s role

 

• Committing to your Continuous Professional Development and learning

 

• Strategies to support your Health and Well-being

 

• Contemporary Operational Best Practice/learning from your peers

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AGENDA GMT

Day One

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

 

9.10am-9.50am: Latest updates around analyst’s reform, national guidance and current projects, Kate Fisher-Stevens, Director National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) National Data and Analytics Office (NDAO) and Deputy Director Nicole Woodhall 

 

9.50am-10.40am: Tackling County Lines through the analysis of ANPR Data: Rachel Wilson, Project Lead, National Data and Analytics Office (NDAO)

 

10.40am-11am: Break

 

11am-11.50am: Operation Iconologist: how communications data analysis proved integral to a drugs conspiracy investigation, Leanne Benfold, Senior Intelligence Analyst, London Organised Crime Partnership (joint investigation between the NCA and the Met)

 

11.50am-12.30pm: HEADLINE SPONSOR: Update on the Level 4 Intelligence Analyst Apprenticeship and how it supports analysts, investigators, intelligence officers and other intelligence professionals, Paula Seddon, Business Development Manager (Apprenticeships) and Sharon Connally, Lecturer in Intelligence Analysis, University of Buckingham

 

12.30pm-1pm: Break

 

1pm-1.30pm: Driving Operational Outcomes Through Data and Technology: Andrew Fahey, Director of Business Development and Public Affairs, Forensic Analytics

 

1.30pm-2.20pm: Organised Immigration Crime: use of analysis in Operation Quatrayle, a complex investigation into Organised Immigration Crime, Jonny Green, Senior Intelligence Analyst, National Tactical Analysis Unit (NTAU), National Crime Agency

 

2.20pm-3.10pm: Operation Honeyfall: how analysis was used in a double murder investigation in which James Desborough dismembered and burned his two victims, Hannah Chapman, Operational Intelligence Analyst, Devon and Cornwall Police

 

3.10pm-4pm: Operation Lightwood: how analysis was used in an investigation into the theft of a valuable watch collection that used to belong to Elvis Presley, Steve French, Intelligence Analyst, Intelligence Directorate, Devon and Cornwall Police

 

4pm: Day one finishes

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Day Two

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

 

9.10am-10am: Project Minerva: innovative data-led solution to reducing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Essex. The project is a collaboration between Essex Police, Essex Fire and Rescue and Nottingham Trent University, Amanda Johnson, Senior Projects Manager, Emergency Services Collaboration Programme, Innovation and Change and Professor Andy Newton, Professor of Criminology and Policing, Nottingham Trent University

 

10am-10.50am: Contemporary issues and best practice around Drone Forensics, Alan Roder, Digital Forensic Examiner, West Midlands Police and Senior Analyst Ian Holliland, National Crime Agency, Joint National leads for Drone Forensics

 

10.50am-11.10am: Break

 

11.10am-Noon: Recognising and responding to Secondary Trauma and advice for analysts and managers around protecting wellbeing, Marlisa Paice, Mental Health First Aider and Peer Supporter, Southeast Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU)

 

Noon-12.50pm: Analyst’s Well-being: practical strategies for analysts to help manage well-being based on current research.  Dr Amy Burrell, Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham,

 

12.50pm-1.10pm: Break

 

1.10pm-2pm: Reflective practice as a tool for professional development and analytical performance: Dr Naomi Davis-Crane, former Head of Intelligence Analysis and now Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.

 

2pm-2.50pm: Staying Credible, Connected and Keeping the Fundamentals Alive: the challenges of lone and remote working as an intelligence analyst and how to maintain the core skills we sometimes lose sight of, Catherine Rothwell, Wildlife Crime Intelligence Analyst, The League Against Cruel Sports

 

2.50pm-3.30pm: Understanding How to Use Exfiltrated Data in analysis that is necessary, proportionate and justified, Tony Marshall, experienced investigator, specialising in Intelligence, OSINT, i3, Online Investigations and Digital and Online Exposure Risks.

 

3.30pm: Conference closes

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HOW TO BOOK

​Cost: £315 + VAT (GBP) per delegate (LEA and Government Agency rate).  £375 + VAT (Industry rate)

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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.​​​​