Forensic Focus

The following transcript was generated by AI and may contain inaccuracies. Paul: Hello, and welcome back to the Forensic Focus Podcast. Joining me tonight is Phil Anderson from Northumbria University, both my friend and colleague. Phil and I have been working together, along with Dr Sarah Allen, on the Forensic Focus International Well-Being Study, and we’re here to continue our discussion of the findings. We’re going to start with the mental health outcomes that came out of the data.

Cellebrite Genesis is expanding to more global markets and is now generally available for enterprise organizations. The expansion builds on a successful early access program and strong momentum following Genesis’ June 2026 public safety launch. Genesis has seen meaningful user growth worldwide and continues to expand internationally, with recent launches in Australia and the United Kingdom and plans to enter the European Union later this month.

If every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can remain buried inside an ever-growing queue. Investigators are left spending valuable time manually reviewing material, opening similar files and working through volume without clear investigative priority. Is your current tool saving investigator time – or draining it?

A round-up of this week’s digital forensics news and views: Industry News £2.4M Police Well-Being Fund: What It Buys The UK Home Office has committed £2.4 million to police mental health through the National Police Wellbeing Service, funding 150,000 annual psychological assessments, a sleep app, a crisis line, and trauma-tracking guidance. Divided across 234,425 FTE police employees, that amounts to roughly £10.24 per head — around 85 pence per month.

By Paul Gullon-Scott BSc, MA, MSc, MSc, FMBPsS, Forensic Mental Health & Well-being Lead, Spectrum Specialist Consultancy Ltd On 10 July 2026, the Home Office announced a £2.4 million investment in police well-being, channelled through the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS).

Cellebrite Genesis for Enterprise Brings it all Together for Faster, More Defensible Outcomes Picture a single case on your desk right now. It likely involves a mobile phone extraction, a stack of emails and shared-drive documents, a chat thread, maybe some cloud data or call detail records and a video file or two. Now — picture five more cases just like it, all open at the same time, and all with someone waiting on an answer.

By Paul Gullon-Scott BSc, MA, MSc, MSc, FMBPsS, Forensic Mental Health & Well-being Lead, Spectrum Specialist Consultancy Ltd For years, I have been asking a simple question: Why is there still no dedicated mental health and well-being training for Digital Forensic Investigators? During that time, I have spoken with training providers, shared research, supplied teaching materials, and encouraged organisations to develop evidence-based accredited courses.

November 4 – November 5 Serbia/Belgrade Bringing together law enforcement professionals and corporate leaders, the conference serves as a vital platform for discussing the latest strategies in ransomware response, blockchain forensics, AI manipulation, complex hacking events, financial investigations, and threat intelligence.

What if you could tell your forensic tool “find all images of improvised explosives” and it just… does it? BelkaGPT’s custom classifiers let you define any category with a short text description, and the AI starts detecting matching images right away. No training datasets. No waiting.

By Paul Gullon-Scott BSc, MA, MSc, MSc, FMBPsS, Forensic Mental Health & Well-being Lead, Spectrum Specialist Consultancy Ltd A critical analysis of the HMICFRS (2026) inspection report on online child sexual abuse policing.