
INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING 5 days for CPD accreditation
(1 day = awareness session / 2 day = upskilling / 5 day = full training)
This training is CPD Accredited
Accredited CPD training means the learning activity has reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and benchmarks. The learning value has been scrutinised to ensure integrity and quality. The CPD Certification Service provides recognised independent CPD accreditation compatible with global CPD requirements.
LEARNING OUTCOMES (full 5-day programme)
- Understand the value of an analyst within an investigation.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the National Intelligence Model (NIM) and its impact on both proactive and reactive investigations.
- Understand the need for evidential and intelligence separation.
- Understand the need for strategy and support of an SIO in the formulation of investigative hypotheses.
- Demonstrate the need for a robust tasking process and formulation of meaningful intel briefs.
- Demonstrate an awareness of confirmation bias and how it can close the door to potential investigative opportunities if not managed.
- Understand the vast array of disparate data available to an investigation (comms, DF, OSINT, CCTV, ANPR, Witness testimony, Overt, Covert etc) along with the inferences that can be drawn.
- Demonstrate layering of data to test an investigative hypothesis.
- Understand how anomalies within data can create an adverse impact on an investigative outcome if not measured correctly.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of communications data and the production of a communications data strategy.
- Demonstrate a robust working knowledge of the MS Excel software and how features within the tool can be used to cleanse/interpret/interrogate CDRs.
- Demonstrate an understanding of what questions can be asked of Digital Forensics outputs, along with parallel sourcing opportunities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how Open Source tasking can be utilised to test/validate/corroborate/know facts.
- Demonstrate how to produce an intelligence report with appropriate sourcing.
- Demonstrate evidential report production for court purposes.
- Understand the court process and demonstrate how to best prepare to present evidence in chief.