Darren oversees development and delivery of data and technology initiatives for the UK’s largest police force with over 40,000 operational officers, staff and volunteers.
He leads a team of around 500 digital and data specialists at the Met, delivering solutions including live and retrospective facial recognition, an enterprise data platform, enhanced search tooling, data visualisation and geospatial analysis, digital interview recording, digital forensics, and a new Command & Control solution.
He has over 25 years of experience in leadership roles across the tech and digital sectors, and has been responsible for leading several award-winning public facing digital services and for technology delivery including in the courts of England and Wales, Crown Prosecution Service, child safe-guarding and central government in the UK.