Dylan Alldridge is the Head of Innovation and Lead for Artificial Intelligence within the UK Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser. He also leads the AI Effectiveness Pillar within the NPCC AI Portfolio, and chairs several national and international working groups on AI and innovation.
Within OPCSA Dylan holds responsibility for system leadership in innovation across policing, promoting joint investment and collaboration on common challenges across local, regional, and national policing bodies. This includes working across government and national security agencies to build greater S&T cohesion between policing and wider partners, including as the policing capability lead for deepfake detection.
Prior to joining the OPCSA Dylan has held positions in UK Home Office and policing, spanning a range of operational and strategic leadership roles across Serious & Organised Crime, Intelligence, and Analysis. He has also led within UK Home Office on policing technology innovation.

Jeremy Vaughan was promoted to Chief Constable of South Wales Police in November 2020.

Jeremy began his policing career in 1996 with North Wales Police. He served the communities of North Wales across a number of roles for 20 years, working up to the rank of Chief Superintendent, where he took responsibility for Local Policing Services.

In 2016 Jeremy transferred to South Wales Police as Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Specialist Operations, including Professional Standards, Criminal Justice, Operational Planning and the Public Service Centre. In December 2017, he took responsibility for the Territorial Policing portfolio including leading on Neighbourhood and Response Policing. He remained as head of this portfolio until he was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable in 2019.

In addition to his force responsibilities, Jeremy is the Vice Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council which brings together UK police leaders to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public. Jeremy is also the Chair of the NPCC Science and Innovation Coordination Committee (SICC), which aims to provide strategic guidance and direction for the delivery and implementation of the National Policing Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy.

Jeremy is the UK Policing Lead for HeForShe, UN Women’s global movement for gender equality. Jeremy joins a unique group of HeForShe Champions from across government, business, non-profit and academia on a five-year journey to accelerate progress towards gender equality. Every UK police force has made a commitment to HeForShe working together towards gender equality within policing.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Jeremy was appointed to the Gorsedd Cymru in 2019 for services to the Welsh language, which reflects his work within South Wales Police in promoting the use of Welsh and improving the service the force provides to individuals within Welsh-speaking communities.

In December 2024 Jeremy was recognised in the New Year Honours list, being awarded a King’s Police Medal (KPM) for services to policing.

Jeremy is married and has three children.

Giles Herdale has been involved in intelligence and digital investigation for many years, working at the National Policing Improvement Agency, College of Policing and National Police Chiefs’ Council, where he set up and ran the Digital Investigation and Intelligence Programme (2014 to 2017) to transform policing capabilities to address the growing threat of online crime.

He has also had experience in the private sector, providing digital forensics and data analytics services to law enforcement, and cyber and information security services to corporate and not-for-profit organisations.

In recent years he has worked independently including supporting the National Crime Agency with TRACER, a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team looking at emerging technologies, their impact on investigative capabilities and sponsoring innovation to mitigate threats and exploit opportunities.

Since 2022 he has supported the work of the national violence against women and girls taskforce with developing a strategic response to online and tech-enabled VAWG. This includes the first strategic assessment of police understanding of the challenge, and building partnerships with civil society, academia and industry, leading to creation of a joint policing and TechUK VAWG steering group.

Giles has a long interest in ethical use of intelligence and data that dates back to his work developing the Management of Police Information Code of Practice following the Bichard Inquiry into the Soham murders. This led to his involvement in setting up the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing (IDEPP) in 2014, a panel of experts drawn from a range of disciplines looking at ethical frameworks for using data in investigations. He was co-chair of IDEPP from 2018 to 2020 and has retained a close interest in data ethics in policing, advising NPCC, the College of Policing, NCA and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation on development of ethical frameworks.

He came to policing from government where, as a fast stream civil servant, he worked on legislation and policy development. In the 1990s, Giles was Assistant Private Secretary to the Policing Minister and Secretary to the Home Office Board. He went on to specialise in transnational organised crime and intelligence sharing.

In the early 2000s, he was the first Whitehall policy lead for human trafficking and organised immigration crime, developing UK policy and legislation. This included negotiating international collaboration through the UN, Council of Europe, European Union and Europol, and the first joint investigation team involving the UK in 2002.

When working in the National Centre for Policing Excellence (subsequently NPIA from 2003 to 2010), he led the team responsible for implementing the National Intelligence Model in policing. He also initiated and led the development of the first published guidance for covert policing.

Matt is a Professor of Criminology at University of Leicester, with undergraduate, taught postgraduate and PhD degrees in psychology and forensic psychology. His expertise centres on two main areas: (1) investigative psychology, serial offending and supporting the detection and prosecution of serial offenders; and (2) prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals, particularly the measurement and development of positive social climates in secure settings. He works closely with police and law enforcement agencies, Government departments, prisons, and forensic healthcare providers in the UK and internationally to co-produce research that addresses real world challenges. He is institution lead for P-ACE LAB, one of 9 Policing Centres of Academic Excellence in the UK launched in 2025 by the National Police Chiefs’ Council.

Simon Dodds is a Chief Superintendent with 28 years of policing experience across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and the Thames Valley. He leads Contact Management for both forces, overseeing emergency and non‑emergency demand, digital contact, and front counter services, handling nearly two million public contacts each year. He is also an accredited public order and firearms gold commander with extensive national and international operational experience.