About Us

Sharon is an experienced and skilled intelligence and analytical professional with 38 years of service with Greater Manchester Police.  She has extensive experience in training intelligence professionals in the methodology and techniques of research and analytical capability, at local, regional, national, and international levels.

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Sharon has delivered training to many agencies at all levels including: Home Forces, Military, Environmental Agency, NCA, Regional, FACT, RSPCA, Gambling Commission, Independent Complaints against Corruption – Hong Kong Police, Special Security Forces – Bangladesh, Nigeria Police Special Fraud Unit, Gibraltar Police, NSW Police – Australia, British Virgin Island Police, in her established career.

Sharon has experience in providing informed intelligence led policing through analytical assessment to inform effective decision making with regards to strategic, tactical, and investigative understanding of threat, risk, harm and vulnerability.

She is experienced and an evidenced professional in support of Major Crime Incident/Investigations and community policing.  Providing informed analytical assessment in the development of intelligence and investigative strategies to identify, arrest and conviction of identified persons or groups involved in criminality.

For over 20 years Sharon was the Senior Criminal Intelligence Analysis trainer within GMP delivering training to intelligence professionals in national courses including National Intelligence Analysis Training (NIAT), Introduction to Research, Introduction to Analysis, Performance/Crime Pattern Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Basic Excel, Excel for Analysts, i2 Notebooks, i2 Workstation, to advise them in their role, to monitor performance and provide constructive feedback.  She worked with them to write, plan and schedule all the above courses and materials, reviewing and updating the content and identifying alternative methods of delivery.  Sharon evaluated the intelligence professional’s capability and responded to their requests for advice and assistance. 

During her time in the training department, Sharon developed her own personal capability and knowledge and worked within a team in training frontline police officers the Psychology of Language using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), to potentially diffuse a volatile scenario.  Sharon assisted in the delivery of the course to over 600 Police Officers and then monitored their performance for 6 months.  The success of the course was recognised by the College of Policing, and the team was attached to pilot the course, at a national level.

Sharon has also worked as an Intelligence Analyst and Intelligence Researcher within Greater Manchester Police working at local, divisional levels supporting investigations into criminality at community and serious and organised levels. She provided intelligence products that informed effective decision-making at all levels. Sharon assessed intelligence and developed the intelligence to inform the bigger picture.

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Greg is a former UK police officer with a strong background in strategic, tactical, and operational risk intelligence management. He spent his 16-year policing career developing an international reputation in the command of high-risk operations, leadership development and training, performance, and international police development. He left the police service in 2014 and is now a Cyber Security Programme Manager assisting government, defence, and financial sector clients to design, develop and deliver next-generation capabilities to protect and secure their businesses.

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Greg is an expert in delivering information security governance, driving automation, building strategic security initiatives, and evaluating impact through strong mutual partnerships. He also provides consultancy and training across the public and private sectors in the UK and overseas.

Greg specialist policing skills include international and transnational Counter Terrorism (CT) investigations, intelligence strategy and policy, intelligence assessment and analysis, covert and overt operational intelligence development, Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) management, surveillance, and intelligence fusion international crisis management.  

Greg worked at a national level as the Senior CT Intelligence Advisor to the UK policing Senior Leadership Team within the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) and was responsible for developing doctrine and policy to improve situational awareness within the command-and-control environment.  He was directly responsible for improving national security interoperability with the design and development of the intelligence fusion concept within UK CT policing.

Formerly seconded to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters) (ACPO (TAM)), Greg was responsible for ensuring the validity and integrity of CT policing intelligence processes and operational development designs were aligned to UK national standards, facilitated good practice and directly supported national, regional and local level security sector reform and UK Government strategy.  This included working with key stakeholders such as the Security Intelligence Agency partners, the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), the Ministry of Defence (DIS), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Cabinet Office, the Department for International Development and the Department for Education on the design, build, delivery and evaluation of intelligence and investigations strategy, systems and policy. 

Whilst serving with ACPO (TAM), Greg also led several international intelligence capability and capacity projects, with responsibility for designing, evaluating and project managing multiple strategic, operational, leadership, training, information technology and development projects.  These included assignments in Africa (Algeria, Nigeria, and Kenya), Europe (Europol, France, Germany, Italy and Georgia), the Middle East (Jordan, UAE and Saudi Arabia) and included providing support to the United Nations.     

After leaving the police service, Greg became a special advisor and information security consultant to UK Secretary of State for Education, leading and delivering an end-to-end business transformation programme to safeguard sensitive intelligence.  He subsequently joined CGI UK Ltd as a Senior Cyber Security Consultant within the Cyber, National Security and Defence business area as security lead for Critical National Infrastructure programmes.  He then joined the NATO Cyber Security Command based in Belgium to lead on the development and delivery of critical transnational cyber security defence programmes before returning to the UK to undertake a roles as EMEA delivery lead for BDO UK and the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC).  He works closely with C-suite stakeholders and leads cyber security teams to deliver optimal security solutions to enhance and protect assets against cyber risks and threats.His specialities include cyber leadership, programme and project management, cyber risk, regulations and governance, open-source research and analysis, secure enterprise architecture, threat/risk/vulnerability assessment, encryption, security access and control, identity and access management and systems administration.

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