Core Investigation Skills

The course will provide delegates with an awareness of how to deal with hostile situations when carrying out their role and how to recognise danger. This course can be used for lone workers and teams carrying out their duties on external site.

The course will provide delegates with an awareness of how to deal with hostile situations when carrying out their role and how to recognise danger. This course can be used for lone workers and teams carrying out their duties on external site.

The course will provide delegates with an awareness of how to deal with hostile situations when carrying out their role and how to recognise danger. This course can be used for lone workers and teams carrying out their duties on external site.

Secure and maintain the integrity of vital digital evidence. This course covers the end-to-end best practice for handling CCTV, mobile device data, and other digital formats, ensuring continuity, admissibility, and compliance with forensic standards from capture to court.

This half-day course is designed for leaders responsible for leading and implementing change in complex public sector organisations. It focuses on the human side of change and the practical actions leaders can take to support teams through uncertainty and transition. Participants will explore how to lead change with clarity, manage resistance, and embed new ways of working in a sustainable way.

Provides tools to assess safeguarding policies and practices for fairness and equity to enable staff to carry out robust EIAs that improve inclusivity and compliance.

The course will provide delegates with an awareness of how to recognise signs of surveillance and employ counter measures.

Teaches strategies to have open, constructive conversations about difficult safeguarding and cultural issues. This course aims to build confidence to address sensitive topics with colleagues, communities, and families.

The Court Room Skills course is designed for those who are looking for a foundation level of understanding of a courtroom. The course can include contextualised case studies which will involve organisational/role-specific cross-examinations. Attending court can be a nerve-wracking experience even for the most experienced officers. As a result of taking this course, every participant will have a better understanding of the UK's courts and legal system, as well as how to prepare for and give evidence in court.

Prepare to deliver confident, credible, and persuasive evidence in a courtroom setting. This practical course provides court room familiarisation training on legal procedures, providing evidence, and presenting complex information clearly.

The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in the investigation, case preparation or prosecution of criminal cases. The course covers these main areas, The legal responsibilities resting on investigators and prosecutors in respect of dealing with unused material.

The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in the investigation, case preparation or prosecution of criminal cases. The course covers these main areas, The legal responsibilities resting on investigators and prosecutors in respect of dealing with unused material.

To provide delegates with knowledge and understanding on conducting digital media investigations.

Exploring emerging safeguarding risks in digital environments this course aims to enhance practitioners’ ability to recognise, assess, and respond to online risks.

To enable delegates to gain an understanding of the legislation, protocols and process of CPIA 1996 Disclosure, in accordance with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines.

To enable delegates to gain an understanding of the legislation, protocols and process of CPIA 1996 Disclosure, in accordance with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines.

This course examines the Domestic Homicide Timeline, providing professionals with a structured understanding of how abuse develops and what opportunities exist for early intervention. Drawing on insights from Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) and current national learning, this session equips participants with tools to recognise, assess, and respond to risk before harm escalates.

This course focuses on strengthening effective communication in professional settings. It supports participants to convey information clearly, confidently, and appropriately, ensuring messages are understood and acted upon in a timely way. The course is grounded in real workplace scenarios and recognises the impact of pressure, emotion, and context on how communication is given and received.

This half-day course focuses on effective engagement and communication in public sector and regulatory environments. It supports participants to communicate clearly, proportionately and professionally with a wide range of stakeholders, including partners, service users and regulated communities. The session explores how to plan engagement, tailor messages and manage challenging conversations while maintaining trust and professionalism. Practical exercises are used throughout to help participants apply learning to real-world situations.

To provide delegates with knowledge and understanding on managing evidence and completing witness statements for continuity purposes in line with legislation and policy.

The Evidence Gathering course is perfect for those who are looking for a foundation level of understanding of how we gather evidence and the differences between intelligence and information within the police, law enforcement, government agencies and charity sector. This programme ensures that delegates are fully familiar the types of evidence, the sources of evidence that may be gathered and how to correlate and corroborate the evidence within your decision making. To ensure delegates are able to make sense of the evidence gathering process, the course will look into statement writing and what needs to be included and excluded.

The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in the investigation, case preparation or prosecution of criminal cases. The course covers these main areas, The legal responsibilities resting on investigators and prosecutors in respect of dealing with unused material.

A reflective session linking current research with daily practice, designed to improve quality and consistency. This course aims to strengthen practitioner decision-making through evidence and reflective habits.

The Intelligence Assessment course is perfect for those who are looking to work within an Intelligence field specifically within the police, law enforcement, government agencies and charity sector. This is course follows on from our 'Introduction to Intelligence' and 'Intelligence Assessment' courses. The Intelligence Analysis course will enhance, improve, and clarify strands of intelligence. This course looks at the analysis of intelligence reports through different techniques. The course also looks to develop and progress via analytical concepts e.g. hypothesis, profiling, pattern analysis, emerging trends etc.

The Intelligence Assessment course is perfect for those who are looking for a foundation level of understanding of information gathering and the use of intelligence within the police, law enforcement, government agencies and charity sector. The Intelligence Assessment course provides effective learning of the fundamental underpinning intelligence recording skills, which could then be naturally progressed and applied in the domain of intelligence assessment. This course will follow on to the initial, governing the receipt, threat and risk assessment, decision-making models, and apportioning of outcomes to recorded intelligence.

The structured programme will enable delegates to develop the skills they need to become a widely deployable Intelligence Officer. Irrespective of your level of experience, the training will benefit delegates by way of continuous professional development, and contribute to the effective processing of the intelligence unit. The course content is focussed on the management of the receipt, assessment, decision making and determination of outcomes per intelligence piece, encouraging standardisation and parity in working practise. All of which can help you gain the skills to have you progress within the intelligence unit.

This course is perfect for those who are looking to build knowledge in identification, handling and verification of digital information and the legislation around it, within the police, law enforcement, government agencies and charity sector. III is a powerful tool against crime, however, the collection of internet data and information is heavily regulated. Improper use of the internet for investigative purposes can put an investigator and their employer at physical, financial and legal risk. Therefore, it is vital that legal and ethical standards are followed when conducting investigative activity online. Learn how in this course.

Develop and refine your skills in conducting legally sound and effective suspect interviews. This training focuses on advanced PEACE model techniques, psychological principles, and strategies for information retrieval and challenge, ensuring interviews are ethical, admissible, and yield high-quality evidence.

Learn to elicit the most accurate, and reliable information from witnesses. This course focuses on cognitive interviewing techniques, rapport building, and overcoming common barriers to recall, ensuring that witness evidence is captured completely and professionally for court proceedings.

The Introduction to Intelligence course is perfect for those who are looking for a foundation level of understanding of information gathering and the use of intelligence within the police, law enforcement, government agencies and charity sector. What should be common throughout the world is the requirement to make sense of what intelligence is gathered and how intelligence it is managed, stored and disseminated appropriately. Ensuring delegates are able to make sense of the intelligence process, the course will look into report writing and how to deal with incoming intelligence and how colleagues/partner agencies should be briefed.

To enable delegates to conduct suspect interviews using the PEACE model and in accordance with relevant legislation, policy and guidelines.

Our three-day Investigative Interviewing course is designed to equip you with relevant skills and techniques on how to conduct effective interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects with integrity and in accordance with corporate guidelines, the law and regulations. It is founded upon the principles of a widely used and acclaimed framework known as the ‘P.E.A.C.E.’ Framework of interviewing, internationally recognized as the most ethical, and thoroughly proven model to guide the interview process.