Tim is a retired police officer serving as a Detective within CID and Financial Investigation Units. He specialised in serious and economic crime cases, and the training and mentoring of both criminal and financial investigators across the UK and many other jurisdictions.
Serious and Organised Crime Investigations, Fraud and Financial Investigations, SIO and Investigation Training and Mentoring.
Experience:
24 years service in operational policing, and then 14 years as a Proceeds of Crime Regulator with the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) and latterly the Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC) of the National Crime Agency (NCA). Level 7 Training Qualification and Level 3 Assessors Qualifications. Director of Training for Agencia Consulting, and Counter fraud Training Officer for Cifas.
Following a distinguished career in the police Tim joined ARA, where he was part of the team responsible for the training, mentoring, accreditation and monitoring of all Financial Investigators (FI’s) across the UK. He retired from there in 2018, since working in the private sector with Agencia and Cifas. From 2023 to 2025 Tim wrote and successfully delivered the Counter Fraud Apprenticeship programme for Exeter University
Tim is an SME in serious, organised and economic crime and terrorist financing. He has worked globally within the public and private sectors, consulting, writing and designing training, mentoring law enforcement professionals, policy writing and reviews, and conducting investigations. Tim has written, delivered and evaluated many different training programmes, papers and presentations around a variety of criminal topics ranging from statement writing, investigative interviewing through to crypto currency and asset recovery.
Tim has vast experience of operating overseas, having written and delivered bespoke courses in Bahrain, Bosnia, BVI, Jamaica, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Trinidad and Turkey.
Whilst in the Caribbean Tim worked directly with the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, as the project lead on training, mentoring and financial investigations, and the mentoring of FI’s in preparation for an FATF visit.
Tim has chaired international conferences and seminars, eg in 2020 he moderated an international conference on Corporate Crime Intelligence in Malaysia. The topics included AML, financial crime, fraud, the role of MLRO, suspicious activity reporting, crypto currency and whistleblowers. He has also contributed to conferences to senior banking and law enforcement professionals in Turkey and University lectures on asset recovery in Bosnia.
Tim believes in interspersing necessary theoretical inputs with practical tasking, based on real operational scenarios, allowing students to “problem solve” and discuss their decisions with peers and trainer alike to gain the best knowledge and skills within a training environment. He strongly believes that a happy group is a learning group!
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