Case Study • National Crime Agency

Introduction

The National Crime Agency (NCA) leads the UK's fight against serious and organised crime, protecting the public by disrupting and bringing to justice those serious and organised criminals who pose the highest risk to the UK. NCA officers and analysts work at the forefront of law enforcement, working to build an extensive intelligence picture of all serious and organised crime threats, and to develop and deliver specialist capabilities on behalf of law enforcement and other partners.

National Crime Agency

The Challenge

As serious and organised crime evolves, so too do the skills and capabilities that law enforcement need to investigate and disrupt the most dangerous and technologically sophisticated offenders. To maintain its proactive edge, the National Crime Agency must effectively harness and utilise emerging technologies and the latest research in order to deliver and maintain innovative and world-leading specialist capabilities in intelligence collection and real-time data analysis, achieved in large part through the effective training of the next generation of NCA officers and analysts.

National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime

What We Did

We designed and delivered a bespoke classroom-based, instructor-led and hands-on training course in statistical modelling and machine learning with relevant case studies and exercises to over 20 NCA officers and analysts, covering the following applied modules:

Introduction to Python and R

Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning

Real-time Distributed Data Engineering

Digital Training

Key Outcomes

Our training solutions, customised with case studies and exercises directly related to the real-time modelling and analysis of serious organised crime in order to cater for the specific requirements of the trainees, enabled the next generation of NCA officers and analysts to harness emerging technologies to deliver new and innovative data-driven specialist capabilities to combat serious organised crime and to protect the public in both the UK and internationally.