As I mentioned on the home page, I am an ex-detective with a specialism in online investigations. It is important to me that you feel you can trust who you are employing to be both competent and discreet, so let me tell you a little bit about myself and my story.
I joined the police in 2017 as what is known as a Neighbourhood Beat Officer for Orchard Park in Hull. Think of my role there as the classic "bobby on the beat". During my time there I worked to do my part in both enforcing the law and trying to address some of the regular problems in the area. It was there that I learned a great deal about conflict management, conflict resolution, and problem solving solutions. More than anything else, I found that being willing to simply talk to people was the most effective way of both learning about and addressing problems.
In 2019, I moved from Neighbourhood Policing to investigations, taking and passing the National Investigator's Exam, which kick started the process of my becoming a detective. As part of my training, I learned advanced interviewing techniques for both witnesses and suspects, the legalities and procedures of producing complex investigative evidence at court, and much more. I spent my time working in the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). The CID investigated serious and complex cases such as robberies, burglaries, the supply of drugs, domestic abuse, and fraud. As I am sure you can imagine, with Covid fully hitting it was a very busy time!
In 2022 I moved from the CID to the Police Online Investigations Team. In that team I spent my days searching for, arresting, and assisting in the prosecution of online paedophiles who were distributing indecent images of children over the internet. Not only did this give me a very good grounding in online investigations, I also took a further piece of training known as the Digital Media Investigators course to make myself one of a small number of specialists in the force who were able to advise others on the digital methods they could use to enhance their own investigations.
Finally, in 2023, I decided that it was time for me to leave the force and take my hard-won skills to the private sector. Wanting to be my own boss, I set up Avalon Investigations, and this website.
I hope that gives you a little bit of a flavour of my skills and training. It is easy to spin a story without providing any evidence of it however, I have sat in enough interviews with suspects to know that! As such, I have attached to this page the relevant certifications and qualifications that I earned as I went through my career in the police. This is by no means a complete list of the training that I underwent, but it highlights my skillsets, and it's not really relevant anymore that I was qualified to use the police sirens and lights to pull someone over whilst in a police car - I don't have one any more!
