Home | Training | Contact Empowering Investigative Excellence Using AI in Your Investigations Live webinar workshop · Wednesday 25 November 2026 · 9.30am–12.30pm · Virtual via Microsoft Teams Across our training sessions this year, one thing has come up again and again. More and more investigators are using AI on their casework and in OSINT. Most have never been trained to do it. Only 37% of UK public servants have had any AI training, according to the Public Sector AI Adopt

Most questions about AI in investigative work are questions of local policy. Which tool, which classification, which approval. Those answers differ from organisation to organisation and your own policy governs. These six do not differ. They hold regardless of platform, licence or local policy, because they go to the integrity of the investigation itself rather than to how your organisation has chosen to configure its software. 1. Write your RIPA reasoning A necessity and prop

Published by Bob Denaro (KPM) @ BDG Training Team The Government has published Modernising the Criminal Disclosure Regime (CP 1601), on 14th July 2026 which is its formal response to two of the most significant reviews of criminal disclosure in a generation. For anyone who investigates, prosecutes, or reviews cases under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, it is worth reading closely, not least because training and competence run through almost every commitmen

By Bob Denaro (KPM) @ the BDG Training Team · June 2026 Digital disclosure is a time-consuming, complex exercise and unless it is addressed from the earliest stage of an investigation, it will be challenging to complete it properly before trial. These are the key actions, drawn from Annex A of the Attorney General's Guidelines on Disclosure and the leading case law. Five key actions from the outset 1. Start early Consider disclosure from the earliest opportunity. Unless the d

By Bob denaro (KPM) @ the BDG Training Team · June 2026 Two Court of Appeal authorities define how investigators must manage digital material: R v Richards & Others [2015] EWCA Crim 1941 and R v Bater-James & Anor [2020] EWCA Crim 790. Their principles apply to every CPIA bound investigation involving digital material, regardless of scale. The obligations do not diminish because a case is smaller. R v Richards & Others [2015]: disclosure must be planned from day one [2015] EW

By Bob Denaro (KPM) BDG Training Team · April 2026 Digital evidence must be captured with a clear legal basis, protected by layers of security and unbroken audit trail, stored on access-controlled systems and for voluminous digital material early prosecutor engagement from the start. Handled incorrectly, digital material can be ruled inadmissible, expose your investigation to legal challenge, or collapse a prosecution entirely. Digital material now features in virtually every

The Fisher Review is the most significant examination of the disclosure regime since the CPIA came into force in 1996 — and its findings apply directly to every local authority investigator. Published in March 2025, Jonathan Fisher KC's Independent Review of Disclosure makes 45 recommendations aimed at modernising criminal disclosure. They are not confined to serious fraud or Crown Court cases: they reach every investigator bound by the CPIA. The six areas every investigator