Dr Andy Griffiths is a former UK police Detective Superintendent who spent his career investigating serious crime and who also led homicide, organized crime, and intelligence departments as a senior officer. His PhD evaluating the effectiveness of specialized interview training was sponsored by the national police college, and he has been training and advising on investigative interviewing at both tactical and strategic levels for over 20 years in numerous countries across the world. He now divides his time between public and private sector consultancy and training, alongside academic work as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and an affiliated scholar with New York University's Asia Law Institute.