Early career in criminal intelligence
My early career was focused around criminal psychology and crime reduction. After graduating with a BSc in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, in 1996 I studied for a master's degree in investigative psychology at the University of Liverpool. This was quite a unique course taking just 10 students per year from mainly psychology and law enforcement backgrounds and was focused around offender profiling work.
After a year as a researcher and tutor, I joined Lancashire Constabulary in 1998 as a criminal intelligence analyst. I then moved to Merseyside Police (2000 to 2005), fulfilling a variety of roles, ultimately as head of strategic analysis.
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