Chris Allen

He is currently Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the London Policing College, where he has delivered training courses to law enforcement in Cambodia and Saudi Arabia, as well as acting as module leader and supervising dissertation students at the University of West London at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Concurrently, Chris is Director of Criminis Training and Consultancy services, which provides a range of solutions to law enforcement, universities and the private sector. As part of Criminis, he has been commissioned to write regular pieces on the latest organised crime trends for Policing Insight- the articles can be viewed here: Chris Allen – Policing Insight. In addition he is Honorary Research Fellow at the Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies.

Previously, he was Senior Police Practice Tutor at Buckinghamshire New University, where he has responsibility for the Evidence Based Research Projects undertaken by officers and is leading a joint research project on the scope for a data harmonisation approach to international organised crime investigation with the Police Foundation.

Chris is also the creator of the U BATTLE toolkit, an investigative strategy development tool that began under City of London Police in 2018 and since then has gained national and international recognition. U BATTLE uses the adapted versions of traditional business analysis techniques to improve the development of investigative strategies in order to dismantle organised crime groups.

In March 2023 he was awarded his PhD which examines the use of business analysis techniques in enhancing investigative strategy development against OCGs in March 2023. Furthermore, he is a member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Network of Experts, the Society for Evidence Based Policing, the European Political Research Consortium Standing Group on Organised Crime and the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime.

During 2021 and 2022 he worked as an Associate Lecturer delivering modules on organised crime, terrorism and policing for London Metropolitan, Kingston and Liverpool John Moores Universities as well as the University of Western England.

Chris has extensive public speaking experience and has made Presentations to:, National Internet Intelligence and Investigations Conference (2018) the National Intelligence Conference 2018, the International Conference on Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism 2019 Serious and Organised Crime Exchange 2019 (SOCEX), Gulf Cooperation Council Forensics 2019, National Analysts Working Group (2019) PSNI Analysts training day (2020), Europol SOCTA Advisory Group (2020),Investigator Organised Crime Conference (2020), Socex National Economic Crime Conference (2020), SC Ransomware Unlocked (2021), World Policing Summit Dubai (2023)