Tim Smith
Tim has over twenty-five years’ experience working in radio and telecommunications industries. Tim has a Post Graduate Certificate in wireless communications and also taught this course for 3 years. He has worked in deploying mobile radio, microwave and satellite communications in the British Army for 22 years. One of his roles was to design tests for, and trial new radio equipment for the Armed Forces.
Robert (Bob) Knight
Bob has worked in cell site analysis and as an expert witness since 2002. He is a technical member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), formally the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
Previously he has been employed at: British Telecommunications; transferring to Cellnet (now O2 from 1979-1999)’ One 2 One (T-Mobile); Ericsson UK; Forensic Telecommunications Services; The Home Office Agency; The Forensic Science Service, The Metropolitan Police Service as a Forensic Engineer (specialising in cell site), The College of Policing (formerly NPIA) as a Radio Frequency Propagation Engineer and Investigative Trainer.
John Tarpey
John is a Chartered Engineer and has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering with over 20 years’ experience in the communications industry and has worked as a cell site expert since August 2006. John spent over a decade with Orange as a Network Planning Engineer, including 6 years as a planning manager. During his time with Orange John played a major role in the planning and roll out of the Orange Network. He was also involved in setting policy and procedures for coverage prediction within the company. John has also been awarded a Chief Constables Commendation from Durham Constabulary for his outstanding work on a murder case.
John can assist with cell site analysis, call data analysis, mobile phone attribution and EncroChat cases.
If you would like to instruct John on your next case please contact denise@footprintinvestigations.com or denise.morris@footprint.cjsm.net
Greg Robinson
Greg is an ‘Expert Witness’, an engineer in the discipline of cell site analysis and is responsible for producing in excess of 900 cell site analysis reports, many of which have been in connection with high profile cases. As a result, he has given evidence at many principal courts throughout the UK. Greg has been providing this specialist service for sixteen years, five at FTS and the last eleven as Technical Director at Footprint Investigations. Greg is extremely respected by his peers, counsel and senior investigating officers.
Footprint Investigations have been established for eleven years this week. We have grown steadily and are still the largest independent dedicated cell site analysis supplier in the UK.
So, after a difficult and demanding eighteen months one of our experts has just gone off on a well-deserved short holiday, only to be questioned by a Judge as to his holiday location. While we fully appreciate the demands placed on the Judge in order to keep the court running, this is sometimes a difficult situation to avoid.
Cell Site Analysis Engineer Required
Working within the UK Criminal Justice system our Cell Site Analysis Engineers produce expert reports for use at court. They author reports for law enforcement agencies and criminal defence lawyers and give evidence in court when necessary.
Full training will be given in relation to report writing and giving evidence in court.
This position would suit an engineer who has worked in planning and/or optimisation with one of the network providers.
We have spoken many times about how cell site analysis is an unregulated area of digital forensics. Anyone can claim to be an expert, and they often do.
In our opinion, a previous role in planning and optimising cell sites or similar is crucial to being able to claim expert status in the field of cell site analysis and therefore give an opinion in court.
Cell Site Analyst
Footprint Investigations have a vacancy for a full time Cell Site Analyst to join our dedicated team in our Redditch office.
Footprint Investigations have been established for over a decade this year and our experts have never been busier. We have recently reached a stage where we are having to turn work away even when it is not what we would have deemed ‘urgent’ in the past. Our cell site experts are instructed on both prosecution and defence cases, however when the pandemic hit last year that changed. As the courts were not running then we mainly took on prosecution work. This is now having an impact as the courts are operational and a number of our experts can find themselves in court for days on end.