Team Biographies

Patrick Pitt  

Pat served the British Police Service with distinction for 30 years, mainly with Hampshire Constabulary.

When he retired he held the rank of Chief Superintendent. During his service he worked within most fields of operational police work, including Criminal Intelligence, Special Operations, Commercial Fraud, Narcotics and Counter Terrorism.

 Operational criminal investigation was his forte throughout his career.

In addition to his wide operational experience he received training as a project manager from a prestigious consultancy firm. He defined the Hampshire Police IT strategy, designing and delivering operational services for this large police force.

Pat worked with several UK National Police IT organisations including the definition and justification of the UK Police national network. He has published material on the subject of Police IT. He was visiting lecturer at the British Police Staff College and lectured law enforcement seminars overseas.

Since leaving the police he has been the life-cycle programme manager for a unique and highly successful consortium of 34 British Police forces. This was the largest scene of crime mark searching system operating worldwide.

Pat now lives in Washington State, USA, from where he coordinates his work in law enforcement technical projects, contract negotiation support and litigation support.

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Ron Wright  BA

Ron is a graduate of the British Open University holding a BA in Psychology, Human Geography and Sociology.

Ron served for thirty years with the Northumbria Police Force. His background is mainly within the CID throughout his service, he has an extensive background of investigating serious crime.

When he retired he held the rank of Detective Chief Inspector and was head of the Northumbria Police Fraud Squad.

Whilst head of the Fraud Squad he dealt with the largest fraud perpetrated on the Internet, which cost a certain telecommunications company in excess of $17 million and involved perpetrators in the USA and every country within the EEC.

When Ron retired from the Police he joined the AFR Consortium Service Team. Ron was the Deputy Operations Manager for the AFR Consortium for 6 years, until the cessation of the contract with specific responsibility for global security, data protection and overseas training.

The service provided by the AFR Consortium was a success story unparalleled in the history of British policing. The Consortium central site in Tacoma, Washington, was a reference site for an ever-increasing number of countries and foreign police forces acquiring the software upon which the service was based.

Francis T. "Fran" Buraczynski, B.A.

Fran graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BA in Journalism. He worked as a reporter for WIS-TV in South Carolina covering the full spectrum of journalistic assignments.

In 1981 he worked with the Lexington County Hospital producing and directing 14 major medical productions. In 1982 he moved to South Carolina Electric & Gas Company with responsibility for producing training videos at a Nuclear Power Station.

Alan attended Manchester University where he was awarded a BA (Hons) in Philosophy in 1971. On graduation he joined a major food producer.

He joined Norfolk Police in 1974, where he served in a variety of posts including heading the force Special Branch. He was responsible for setting up the Norfolk Computer Team.

In 1985 he transferred to Cheshire Police where he worked as a Sub Divisional and Divisional Commander and as Head of Administration. He returned to Norfolk where he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable Operations. He was awarded the Queens’ Police Medal in 1999.

During his latter service he lectured for the Ministry of Defense, the Emergency Planning College and the Police Staff College. He presented evidence to the House of Commons Defense Select Committee regarding the national response to terrorism. Alan was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Emergency Procedures Committee from 1961 until 2004.

Following the events of September 11th 2001, Alan led the police service on consequence management issues arising from terrorist attacks. His experience and knowledge are widely recognized in the emergency planning community and he is still regularly consulted by the Government and other agencies.

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Roderick J Hudson, BA (Hons)

Rod has a fine academic background upon which he built his current professional career. He studied business management at Dudley College of Technology. He was awarded a BA (Hons) in American Studies by the University of Wales in 1990 additionally studying Philosophy and multiculturalism.

He gained a postgraduate diploma in computer science in 1991. He next attended Birmingham Polytechnic studying Project Management, Market Evaluation and Presentation Skills. In 1994 he attended Sutton Coldfield College gaining a certificate in counseling skills.

For the past 18 years he has worked as a Fingerprint Officer with the Dorset Police during which time he gained expert status. He is currently still serving with the Dorset Police. During his varied police service he has qualified as an AFR operator. In 1999 he was selected as a member of the seven-man Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Consortium ‘Mark Operations’ team, working from the AFR base in Tacoma, USA. In this latter capacity he helped substantially to provide the unique and highly successful 24/7 identification service to the British police.

He is widely experienced in all aspects of fingerprint comparison and identification work and is a certified mark/latent expert, highly experienced in AFIS systems.

Brian Humphreys  

Brian served in the British Police service for 30 years with the West Mercia Constabulary. He served at all ranks mainly with the Criminal Investigation Branch.

 During his career he served as Staff Officer to Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary allowing him unique insight into the broad working of the police service nationally.

At the time of his retirement he was the Chief Superintendent in Charge of Operations and Traffic Departments for West Mercia.

During his service he specialized in internal and external reviews both of a criminal and disciplinary nature.

He is a trained hostage negotiator and following on from this responsibility he was selected to be the police liaison officer with the British military. He worked closely with British Special Forces during national terrorist exercises.

On leaving the police service he worked as an independent consultant with the Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Consortium (AFR) promoting and implementing the service within English and Welsh police forces.

Brian played a leading role in the implementation of a similar AFR project in the Caribbean Islands, where he worked closely with Interpol. He worked with a team in Seattle, USA regarding litigation concerning the software company contracted to the fingerprint system.

Peter Linden Jones BA

Peter served in the British Police service for 32 years, serving with Cheshire Constabulary in operations and Criminal Investigation from the rank of Constable to the rank of Acting Assistant Chief Constable.

He served as a Divisional Commander and for a time was Staff Officer to Her Majesties Inspector of Constabulary.

In 1995 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable with Hampshire Constabulary, ultimately taking responsibility for all support services. He served with the inter-services Security Committee (Army, Navy and Air Force.)

He was responsible for the UK police strategy to deal with criminal and terrorist threats from the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents.

Since leaving the police service he has worked as a consultant for the European Commission regarding assistance to Albania in the fields of incident management and organized crime. He has lectured to senior police officers in Muscat, Oman on the subject of organized and major crime investigation. He has worked in Seattle in a contract arbitration case. He is an associate lecturer at the British Police Staff College.

Peter holds a BA in Politics and Sociology, attended the Senior Command Course and has attended the FBI National Academy at Quantico.

Brian Dunn

Brian served with the Carlisle City Police, Cumbria Police and Greater Manchester Police in a career spanning 30 years.

He held every rank within the Criminal Investigation Department but also served in various uniformed capacities. When he retired he held the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent.

For ten years he was Branch Commander with the Regional Crime Squad

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Guy Maxwell John Kitchen

Guy had an excellent academic background at school where he covered a wide range of subjects some of which were art-orientated. He took an Art Foundation Course. His studies were channeled towards photographic subjects, which he was able to utilize in his later life.

He joined Lancashire Constabulary in 1991 after completing his studies. He began his police service as a Photographic Technician having already attained a National Diploma in Photography. Whilst serving with the Lancashire force he studied for and obtained a City and Guilds qualification in Television and Video production.

In 1994 he was appointed a Fingerprint Officer. He was awarded ‘Expert’ status as a fingerprint officer in 1994. He is a member for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.

He remained with Lancashire Constabulary as a fingerprint officer until 2004 having experienced all aspects of fingerprint orientated police work. For more than three years he worked as part of a divisional scenes of crime team dealing with all aspects of crime investigation. He is a certified mark/latent expert, highly experienced in AFIS systems

Since February 2004 he has been self-employed as a fingerprint expert offering his wide range of skills commercially.