Steven David Brown is a specialist in law enforcement and criminal justice. An experienced programme manager, he is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and a certified Open Source Intelligence Professional.  After qualifying as a barrister he joined the Metropolitan Police to serve as an operational police officer in Inner London. He was deployed on special investigation and response teams and tasked with setting up a major multi-agency drugs project before being seconded to NCIS.

Since 2001 he has worked exclusively at the international level, first with Europol and then in various capacity building and technical assistance roles. In addition to living and working in the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Croatia and Romania, he has coordinated global, regional and national programmes at a senior level in Central Asia (based in Uzbekistan), the Caucasus, and in central and eastern Europe.

Steven’s approach is typically pragmatic and essentially founded in the implementation of sustainable, innovative and practical initiatives. He has been particularly active in advising on and providing training in areas such as suspect and witness interviewing, integrity-building, crime analysis and intelligence-led policing, international cooperation, forensics (especially DNA), financial crime and computer-related crime as well as reviewing crime and policing-related legislation. He is often called upon to lecture on policing and crime matters to expert, academic and lay audiences.

Steven has published a series of articles in peer-reviewed journals and brought together a team of internationally renowned experts to collaborate on the book, ‘Combating International Crime: The longer arm of the law’. This textbook represents a unique practitioner perspective and has been used on a number of professional and university courses.

Prior to his legal studies, Steven was awarded a distinction for his MA which centred on organised crime, comparative criminology and terrorism. He also has a graduate diploma in Financial Crime Prevention. He speaks fluent Italian, German and basic Mandarin as well as some French.

 

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