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Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Episode: 0026 Title: Everything you always wanted to know about missing persons but were afraid to ask Release Date: 23rd of February
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
My name is Tanja Conway-Grim. I work in a variety of roles across the NHS, with police services and charities, especially in the field of autism, ADHD, neurodiversity, co-production, missing people, and suicide prevention. I sit on various strategic autism boards. I am a qualified trainer, a mentor for a clinical leadership programme for doctors as well as for The Girls Network. As a specialist coach I support neurodivergent people in the workplace. I am the Neurodiversity Lead for the charity Locate International.
I have an HND (Dist) in Animal Science, BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, and an MRes in Forensic Investigation. Developing training is one of the aspects I enjoy most in my work. I am on the autistic spectrum & have ADHD, and I have lived experience of going missing and growing up in care. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my flock of rare breed, primitive sheep, and my many plants.
During 36 years with the Police and then at CEOP and the National Crime Agency as the Manager for Missing and Abducted Children, Charlie Hedges has amassed a wealth of practical and theoretical experience, nationally and internationally and was also responsible for writing national guidance for the UK Police on missing persons and search procedures.
Since 2015 he has operated independently as Charlie Hedges Advisory, continuing to work in the UK and other countries. His focus is on finding new and better ways to safeguard children and adults, then sharing and implementing the solutions. This has led to the creation of the Missing Persons Information Hub (MPIH), providing a link to all aspects of missing persons.

Thursday Mar 04, 2021
ACIA - Cyber-wareness
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
ACIA New Horizons Podcast with Host Paige Keningale
Episode 00002
Release Date: March 4, 2021
Description: Dr Karagiannopoulos' talk will focus on his work for the award-winning Cybercrime Awareness Clinic he directs and will discuss the findings from previous and current work relating to cyberawareness for young people, small and medium organisations and older adults over 60 years of age. This will involve work he has done for Hampshire police, the National Cyber Security Centre and the European Commission Interreg 2 Seas. Finally, Dr Karagiannopoulos will analyse the Clinic model as a public criminology innovation project and will review the challenges and lessons learned from the experience or running the Clinic in the past 3.5 years. For more information on the clinic, go to https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-projects/cybercrime-awareness-clinic.
About the guest:
Dr. Vasilis Karagiannopoulos is a Reader in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS), University of Portsmouth.Vas graduated from Athens Law School and completed an LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law and a PhD in Law at the University of Strathclyde. He is currently the Director of the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, which was recently awarded a National Cyber Awareness Award in the National Cyber Awards 2020 sponsored by the National Police Chiefs’ Council. He has also developed and led the launch of the innovative BSc in Criminology and Cybercrime in 2018 and has published in national and international academic journals and magazines on various cyber-related issues. He is currently working on national and international Clinic projects funded by the EU Commission, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.
Episodes of the ACIA New Horizons podcast will publish the first Thursday of every month. Please send questions or comments to podcasts@acia.org.uk. For more information on the ACIA, please visit www.acia.org.uk.

Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Episode: 0017
Release Date: 20th of January 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr. Susanne Knabe-nicol/ Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Other resources: https://www.college.police.uk/career-learning/joining-police/joining-new-pc
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/social-sciences/ug/this-year/professional-policing https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-rudkin-1777b614b/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio
Phil Rudkin began his career working for Oxford Magnet Technology working as an ICT Helpdesk operative dealing with technical ICT issues following the successful completion of his degree in Computer Science.
He joined Leicestershire Police in 2003, He worked in both forward facing front line operational roles including response policing, neighbourhood policing and prisoner processing. He's also worked as a control room operative working alongside senior officers in Silver Command situations such as football matches, and large events such as the Download music festival.
For the past 8 years, he's trained new policing recruits both Specials, Regulars and PCSO’s legislative inputs and IT Systems required for their role.
In 2015, he was the lead designer and instructor responsible for all the training of the Niche RMS system used by the City of London Police Northamptonshire Police, Leicestershire Police, Derbyshire Police and Nottinghamshire Police, which is on a shared collaborative platform holding the rank of Sgt and running large training teams.
In 2018 Phil started his career with NTU as a Senior Lecturer and was the programme leader for BA Policing, his role resulted in him developing the new BA Professional Policing degree licenced by the College of Policing for undergraduate study to be launched in Sep 2019. Phil was promoted to Principal Lecturer in 2019 with a portfolio of Policing and International Law Enforcement. As a result, Phil manages programmes spanning levels 4 to 7 both within NTU and with international partners. Phil heads up the policing team working alongside his counterpart in Criminology to effectively deliver criminal justice provisions for NTU.
In Sep 2021 Phil was appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor for Saito University College in Malaysia where he advises on curriculum development, and is part of the board for the Security Academy. He was also appointed as Academic liaison tutor for NTU'S partnership with the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission MACC.

Thursday Feb 03, 2022
ACIA - Nadia Tuominen: The Creator
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Episode: 0018
Title: Nadia Tuominen: The Creator
Release Date: 3rd of February 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol/ Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Other resources: https://www.newinsightanalysis.com/food-for-thought-workshop/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Nadia Tuominen is a career Intelligence Professional with a career spanning law enforcement, sports corruption, and financial crime investigation. She is also the creator of the CPD accredited workshop "Food for Thought - Thinking Skills in the Modern Age", open to persons of any industry interested in improving their reasoning and decision making skills and incorporating their personal wellbeing along the way. Outside of work, Nadia is a big fan of CrossFit, hiking, and escaping into a good book.

Thursday Mar 03, 2022
ACIA - Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol AKA the Police Science Dr
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Episode: 0019
Release Date: 3rd of March 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol/ Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Other resources: https://www.policesciencedr.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol has a BSc in Psychology from the University of East London, an MSC in Interactive Multimedia from the University of Westminster and an MSc and PhD in Investigative Psychology from the University of Liverpool.
Susanne has worked in UK policing for over a decade in the roles of regional intelligence analyst major crome researcher, custody investigator, improvement and evaluations officer, improvement and evaluations coordinator, and change and improvement officer. Before then, Susanne was a uniformed police community support officer in London and now currently works as a lecturer in Criminology, Policing and Investigations at Middlesex University in London.
The reason why Susanne wanted to make relevant research reach the right people in policing is because there is an awful lot of great research being done and published, but then only read by other academics. This just doesn’t make sense to me, and so I started turning research into videos, as every officer can make time to watch a short video, but they might not be able to access and digest a research paper. Susanne set up Police Science Dr to create a broad range of research-based videos and the plan is for a global communication platform for researchers and practitioners as well as a collection of police-relevant courses, all in one place. Susanne happens to have the desire to make research accessible and able to create online courses and interactive videos to help the policing community.
Susanne has also published two book chapters: one on geographic profiling and one on behavioural investigative advice, which are both in Professor Laurence Alison’s book ‘Professionalising Offender Profiling’.

Thursday Mar 24, 2022
ACIA - Emma Riches: The Outgoing Analyst
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Episode: 0020
Title: Emma Riches: The Outgoing Analyst
Release Date: 24th of March 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Emma Riches is a Senior Intelligence Analyst who has spent her career specialising in analysing Organised Crime with local, regional, national and international implications. After spending some time in the NCA, Emma has moved to HMRC, embarking on an new exciting journey. Emma discusses her career, the transition from each organisation and reflects on her personal experiences whilst being an analyst within the intelligence community.

Thursday Apr 14, 2022
ACIA - Organised Crime Training by Expert Chris Allen (ft the Police Science Dr)
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Episode: 0021
Release Date: 14th of April 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Chris Allen is a researcher, lecturer, consultant and commentator specialising in organised crime and how it operates. He has significant experience in lecturing on UK and international policing structures, as well as drug trafficking, cybercrime, human trafficking and firearms trafficking, among other subjects.
He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and an Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan and Liverpool John Moores Universities
Concurrently, Chris is currently Director of Criminis Training and Consultancy services, which provides a range of solutions to law enforcement, universities and the private sector. As part of Criminis, he has been commissioned to write regular pieces on the latest organised crime trends for Policing Insight, recently publishing pieces on the financial impact of wildlife trafficking in West Africa and the international drugs trade.
Chris is also the creator of the U BATTLE toolkit, an investigative strategy development tool that began under City of London Police in 2018 and since then has gained national and international recognition. U BATTLE uses the adapted versions of traditional business analysis techniques to improve the development of investigative strategies in order to dismantle organised crime groups.
Furthermore he is a member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Network of Experts, the society for evidence based policing, the European Political Research Consortium Standing Group on Organised Crime and the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime
Chris has extensive public speaking experience and has made Presentations to:, National Internet Intelligence and Investigations Conference (2018) the National Intelligence Conference 2018, the International Conference on Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism 2019 Serious and Organised Crime Exchange 2019 (SOCEX), Gulf Cooperation Council Forensics 2019, National Analysts Working Group (2019) PSNI Analysts training day (2020), Europol SOCTA Advisory Group (2020), Investigator Organised Crime Conference (2020), Socex National Economic Crime Conference (2020)
During Winter and Spring 2020 he worked as Research Associate for Liverpool John Moores University and is a co-author of the recently published Review of the NCA Proceeds of Crime Centre for the Home Office.
In October and November 2019, he delivered a series of guest lectures to MA Transnational Organised Crime Students at LJMU on the threat from Cybercrime and organised crime exotica- which examined Wildlife and Organ Trafficking. In March 2020 he delivered a session on the policing of Cyber and transnational organised crime to MA Criminology Students at the University of Gloucestershire
In October 2018 he was made Research Lead for Project U BATTLE, In early 2019 he was seconded from City of London Police to the Home Office, as Research Lead for Project U BATTLE for a three month period to develop the methodology behind the toolkit.
Prior to this role, he worked as Performance Researcher and Analyst in the Strategic Delivery Unit, Economic Crime Directorate at City of London Police, where he produced a number of reports on the performance of the units involved in Fraud and Cybercrime.
Before joining City of London Police he worked for policing think tank The Police Foundation as a researcher examining the policing of organised and cybercrime- where he put together a briefing paper on cybercrime- and as a journalist for Police Professional and numerous regional newspapers.Chris holds an MA Distinction in Terrorism and International Crime from Coventry University (2017) and a BA Hons (2:1) Journalism Staffordshire University (2013). He also obtained a Level 7 Qualification in Professional Consulting from the Charted Management Institute (2017) and completed the Government Intelligence Analysis Course in 2019

Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Episode: 0022
Release Date: 5th of May 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Mark Nuttall has an extensive counter-crime and risk background with over 20 years’ experience as a global risk management, anti-financial crime, and international security specialist. He has a background in security, law enforcement, geopolitics, international organisations, corporates, financial institutions, project management and risk consultancies. Mark has been a Detective/ Serious and Organised Crime (Warranted Police Officer) for the Metropolitan Police Service, Executive staff/ Criminal Intelligence for Interpol and now is a Director for a risk special services in Singapore.
Mark has the following publications that may be of interest to you
'Bribery, corruption, geopolitics and investigation', in the 'Handbook of Security and the Environment' published by Edward Elgar Publishing (2021)
‘Who or What are ‘Police’? A Speculation on Why Organised ‘Crime’ Succeeds’ published online by RUSI SHOC (2021)
Committee member - 'Preemployment background screening and vetting (PBSV) guideline' published by ASIS International (2022).

Thursday Jun 02, 2022
ACIA - Jeff Weyers: Finding Terrorists Through Open-Source Intelligence
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Episode: 0023
Title: Jeff Weyers: Finding Terrorists Through Open-Source Intelligence
Release Date: 2nd of June 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Jeff Weyers is a Senior Intelligence Research Analyst with iBRABO Inc. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence and Security Studies from the University of Ottawa, a Diploma in Law and Security Administration from Conestoga College, a B.A. in Psychology and Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University and finally a M.Sc. in Investigative Psychology from the University of Liverpool.
Jeff has trained in the areas of Anti-Terrorism Training, Intelligence and Security, Major Case Investigations, Drug Enforcement, and Interviewing and Interrogation. Jeff is currently studying the risk assessment of terrorist groups, anti-terrorism training and response, and the social networking of terrorist groups.
Jeff has consulted with numerous agencies on identifying individuals vulnerable to violent extremism. As a result he has received numerous commendations for his work in diverting persons from violent extremism.
Useful Links:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4767450/militant-beheaded-canadians/
https://globalnews.ca/video/4891562/geolocation-helps-canadians-find-isis-execution-sites-in-syria/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Zz5QPc1mM
https://ibrabo.com/

Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Episode: 0024
Title: Dr. Tarah Hodgkinson: Influencing change in the Crime Prevention strategies used within LEA’s
Release Date: 7th of July 2022
Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale
Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.
Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr
Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk
Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts , https://www.leapodcasts.com/
Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org, LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).
Bio:
Dr. Tarah Hodgkinson is an assistant professor in the department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also a SafeGrowth(R) practitioner (www.safegrowth.org ) and works with neighbourhoods across North America and Australia to build local capacity to address crime and disorder. Her research interests include crime prevention, policing, environmental/spatial criminology, victimology, and rural criminology. Tarah uses action research methodologies in her work, which allows her to partner directly with her participants to help create meaningful changes in communities and organizations in Canada and internationally.