Chris Allen 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. He has extensive lecturing experience in organised, cyber and economic crime and has recently delivered training to law enforcement on these subjects through his role as specialist trainer at the Police Science Dr Academy.

Concurrently, Chris is Associate Professor of Policing at the Paris Graduate School where he supervises PhD Students working on organised crime related projects, he is  also Honorary Research Fellow at the Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies. In addition, Chris is Director of Criminis Training and Consultancy services, which provides a range of bespoke organised crime short courses 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.

Previously, he was Senior Police Practice Tutor at Buckinghamshire New University, where he had responsibility for the Evidence Based Research Projects undertaken by officers and led 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.