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FTS News
Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) Ltd. has appointed a new Managing Director to lead a significant restructuring programme to ensure the company is better placed to meet the future needs of customers in the UK criminal justice system and international law enforcement.
Shaun HIPGRAVE will take up the post of Managing Director with immediate effect. A former police officer with Northumbria Police, Mr. Hipgrave joined FTS in 2003 and has been the company’s Commercial Director since 2005. He served for nine years in the British Army and 13 years in the police service, mainly working in serious crime investigation. He has spent the last 10 years advising on telecoms investigations in major enquiries.
Mr Hipgrave developed the FTS Telecoms Investigators course in 2005. Accredited by Teesside University, the course has been delivered to more than 700 detectives and telecoms analysts in the UK and abroad. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Criminology and Law from the University of Northumbria.
Mr Hipgrave will lead a restructuring programme which aims to re-focus FTS services around the needs of UK law enforcement agencies and respond to the growing pressures they face to deliver improved services at a time when public sector investment is under pressure.
Shaun Hipgrave said “I am deeply honoured to have the opportunity to lead FTS over the next phase of our development. These are challenging economic times in the UK and I want to ensure that FTS is supporting all of our partners within the Criminal Justice System as well as offering unrivalled best evidence at a cost effective price.
My first priority will be to offer our public sector partners solutions which deliver more value while continuing to provide high quality digital evidence for criminal investigations.
At the same time, I will also be hoping to build on FTS’ excellent international reputation in transferring our vital knowledge and technologies in the digital forensics field to support the fight against the growing threat of global terrorism.”
FTS was founded in 2000 by Jonathan Clark MBE FRSA in response to a growing need within the law enforcement community to recover and access digital evidence from telecommunications devices and to analyse network records for criminal investigations. FTS pioneered Cell Site Analysis in the UK and the first commercially available flash memory chip-level Mobile Phone Forensic services in 2003. Latest innovations include the first fully forensic iPhone imager (reader) and advanced memory chip removal and reading services for damaged and broken mobile handsets.
The changes will allow Mr Clark MBE to concentrate his energies on developing other business projects.
These board level changes sound the starting pistol on an ambitious plan for the next ten years that include opening up more opportunities in the UK for digital forensics products, services and training, increasing partnership arrangements with UK Law Enforcement agencies and developing further FTS’s already strong connections with international policing agencies.
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