Met Police Lead intelligence analyst honoured for role in serious and organised crime operation
Tuesday, 06 December, 2022
L to R: Debi Potter (UNISON); Lisa Coleman (Metropolitan Police); Alife Moore (Event Host and Comedian)
Metropolitan Police Lead Intelligence Analyst Lisa Coleman has received national recognition for her contribution to the biggest, most successful operation against serious and organised crime that the Metropolitan Police Service has ever undertaken.
Honoured at the Skills for Justice Inspire Justice Awards, Lisa siad:“it's really lovely to be recognised, but my nomination is all part of a huge team effort related to a specific operation that took a huge amount of energy and dedication from my colleagues and people that I was lucky enough to work with. It’s lovely to be nominated. I'm very, very grateful to those that took the time to put the nomination together.
“Events like the Inspire Justice Awards are really important to try and encourage new people to join policing and to show the diversity of roles and careers, drawn from people with a wide range of backgrounds and training. I think it's so important that we're not shy about showing the public all areas of policing and the criminal justice system to try and encourage those from all walks of life, with all sorts of skills, strengths and interests to come and join this amazing work.”
Lisa joined the Met over 15 years ago and has worked her way up to lead a team of analysts and researchers who were key in delivering unprecedented results in terms of charges, convictions and intelligence gained from this significant operation.
An expert panel of judges praised Lisa highly for her innovative use of new technology and software that allowed the Met to pull together tens of millions of lines of data to identify high harm organised criminals.
Numerous associated operations have since followed, leading to the arrest of hundreds of criminals across London and the UK.
In addition to a stressful and demanding day job – Lisa recently completed a review of the MPS’s central intelligence function and undertakes projects to support the Met’s diversity and inclusion work.
Speaking about Lisa’s contribution, Lindsey Chiswick, MPS Director of Intelligence, said: “Not only does Lisa have all the classic skills of an analyst: curiosity, tenacity, the ability to look at things from different perspectives, but she goes far further by nurturing those skills in others. Lisa has proven adept at finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. A supportive, yet challenging leader, ensuring her team are able to give their best. Her work on this particular operation was outstanding. The work of intelligence analysts often goes on in the background unrecognised. The results for this operation would not have been achievable without her.”
The Inspire Justice Awards is sponsored by UNISON, Serve & Protect CU, Napo, SFJ Awards and Policing Insight. To find out more visit: https://skillsforjustice.org.uk/inspire-justice-awards
