Sarah Hutton

Researcher / Psychologist

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Hove, Brighton and HoveMember since 14 July 2023

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Sarah recently joined Frazer-Nash Consultancy as a Senior Consultant, on the Digital Advisory Team. She brings a wealth of experience from previous law enforcement and academic backgrounds, to assist with their 'cyber and psychology' approach.

Prior to this, Sarah worked at the Business and Law Faculty at the Open University as a Lecturer, based on the Policing Organisation and Practice Team as part of a group designing and delivering the new Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) for new police officers, as well as contributing to the overall development of programmes under the Police Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF). There she was chairing the academic component of the second year of the apprenticeship degree and recently completed an MBA.

Sarah worked as a detective in both the Metropolitan Police and Sussex Police for 15 years. During this time, she worked for Operation Trident, as well as on a pilot project designed to monitor and disrupt those designated as high-level organised criminals.

Within Sussex

Police she specialised in rape and child abuse investigations. Research conducted whilst in the Met police contributed to her PhD thesis on organised crime, which in 2018 received the Open University Social Science prize.

Her experience as an investigator and researcher within different police forces, has contributed to a wide variety of research interests within policing, particularly around organised crime, detective / organisational culture and safeguarding investigations.