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Criminal Behavioral Analyst

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Laura is an award winning criminal behavioural analyst, former New Scotland Yard and an international expert on domestic abuse, coercive control, stalking, sexual violence homicide and risk assessment.

Laura trained at New Scotland Yard and the FBI Behavioural Analysis Units and is an advocate for victims and an author, producer and podcaster. Laura has a BSc in Psychology and Sociology and an MSc in Forensic and Legal Psychology.

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DASH Risk Checklist

The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH 2009-2024) Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model was implemented across all police services in the UK from March 2009, having been accredited by ACPO Council, now known as National Police Chief Council (NPCC).

This was pioneering and a significant step forward in keeping victims safe, turning a reactive ‘it’s just a domestic’ into a proactive ‘you must ask’ questions approach. This also meant for the first time all police services and a large number of partner agencies across the UK started to use a common checklist for identifying, assessing and managing risk.

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AWARDS & CREDENTIALS

Head of Homicide Investigations Commendation, Commander Baker, January 7th, 2005

Head of Homicide Investigations Commendation Commander Baker, January 7th, 2005

Dod’s Charity Champions Award -National Charity of the Year June 27th, 2012

Commissioner’s Commendation, Sir Ian Blair, September 7th, 2005

Suzy Lamplugh Trust ‘Taking Stalking Seriously Award’, November 14th, 2012

Charity Times Campaigning Team of the Year Award October 18th, 2012

Commissioner Sir Ian Blair’s Letter, February 17th, 2005

Certificate of excellence from the 9th British Diversity Awards, 2003

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Advice and expert analysis on cases
Expert led masterclasses run by Laura which center the victim and focus on perpetrators
If you want your event to stand out, Laura is engaging and fascinating and will blow your attendees minds with expert insight and analysis. Laura has worked many cases across her career, undertaken pioneering research on risk assessment and homicide prevention and changed laws eight times to protect women and children. Laura will deliver practical knowledge about how to intervene and prevent murders in slow motion™️
Available to appear on, consult on and produce groundbreaking shows
Listen to Crime Analyst and Real Crime Profile. If you need an expert on your podcast contact Laura.

Work With Laura Richards

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LAURA’S PODCASTS

Join Laura every week in the intelligence cell as she forensically deconstructs cases with an expert lens.Through fascinating storytelling Laura shares her professional expertise, respectfully centering the victim, highlighting the red flags and focusing on early intervention and prevention.

Real Crime Profile is an award winning podcast which places the victim’s voice at the center of the narrative as we expertly forensically deconstruct and profile cases. Retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente and former New Scotland Yard Criminal Behavioural Analyst Laura Richards use their collective 64 years experience of analyzing violent crime and discuss real life cases with Lisa Zambetti, the Casting Director of the hit CBS show Criminal Minds.

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RESOURCES

Learn from the best! Given how prevalent domestic abusers and stalkers are and the increasing femicide rate, everyone should be trained to understand the risks and dangers. Laura spearheaded the campaign to criminalize stalking and coercive control in England and Wales and provides expert led masterclass training on coercive control, stalking, DASH Risk Identification, Assessment and Management and preventing murders in slow motion™

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