🔍 Your September Investigator Bulletin — Edition 6: the AI Special
Empowering Investigative Excellence
Edition 6 of the BDG Investigator Bulletin is now available. This one is an AI Special for Investigators with no technical knowledge required. AI for investigators is no longer a future question. Most people conducting investigations in local government and the wider public sector are already using these tools, usually Microsoft Copilot, built into the software they use every day. Survey evidence published this summer suggests around three in four professionals in regulated sectors use AI at least weekly, and roughly seven in ten have had no formal training on it in the past year. The tools arrived before the training did. This guide covers the principles: what these tools actually are, how to instruct them and the case law to be aware of.
THE PUBLIC SECTOR PICTURE
45% use AI daily — the lowest adoption of any sector surveyed
50% have no clear workplace AI policy, or do not know whether one exists
1 in 3 have knowingly received no training or guidance on AI use in the past twelve months
Source: Skillcast, “AI Adoption in the Workplace: The UK’s Governance Gap”, July 2026.
INSIDE EDITION 6
• What AI Actually Is — the four types of tool, and why the guidance and the risks differ for each
• How a Chat Tool Actually Works — hallucination, non-determinism, context windows, and why it agrees with you
• Where the Tool Sits Matters — Copilot inside your tenant versus a chatbot in a browser, and why your prompts are a record
• The Policies You Are Working Under — the three questions to settle before any prompt goes near case material
• Six Things AI Must Never Do — RIPA reasoning, disclosure decisions, witness statements, profiling, fact, and your decision log
• What to Enter — and What Never to Enter — the never-enter list, and anonymising by role label as a matter of routine
• The Grounding Rules — ten rules to append to any prompt where you supply material for review
The UK Investigator’s AI Starter Pack - Free Additional Guide
Ten structured prompts for investigative practice. Each one sets out what it is for, what to give it, the prompt itself, the check you must carry out, and the legal or professional risk attached to that task.
Written for investigators, enforcement officers and investigation managers in UK local authorities, the wider public sector and regulated industry.
We deliver AI training for investigators as a short standalone session, or built into our Investigation Essentials, disclosure, OSINT, RIPA and professional witness courses. It is worked through against your own organisation’s policy and your own tools, and it leaves a clear record of who was trained and when. Reply to this email to discuss a course for your team.
Further Information
For team training or enquiries:
info@bdgtrainingconsultancy.co.uk
Kind regards,
BDG Training Consultancy
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