Red flags are used in all sorts of professions as a way to generalise from one known context to another, hopefully, similar context. They are a useful introduction for policy-makers, other non-specialists or entrants to a profession. They are a short-cut for hard data analysis and, in the anti-money laundering (AML) arena, a poor substitute …
A wise Professor asked me why I thought there were so few criminal cases of corruption in the UK. My first thought was that, “It’s because there is no Corruption Squad”. I looked into it some more and discovered that it was not quite as simple as that. I had to rope in some experts …
A decade of funding cuts and now the need to police a public health emergency means an ever-increasing need to do more with less. In the mid-nineties the gap between resources and demand led to innovative solutions like computerisation and intelligence-led policing. We need to innovate again. One way to focus stretched resources would be …
A Fair Cop 