Detective Sergeant Mark Williams

Biography

Mark has spent much of his 20 year police career managing serious, organised and complex crime investigations. Having managed financial crime teams at both force and regional level, Mark has an extensive understanding of financial crime typologies, risks and tools to combat the criminality.

Having managed the Crypto Asset investigative resources for the South East’s Regional Organised Crime Team, Mark has witnessed the evolving typologies and risks from a practitioner perspective.

As the Financial Crime Development Officer for the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit, Mark has broad tactical and strategic responsibilities. These are to maximise the regions’ capability to effectively manage fraud and money laundering risks, to include those caused and enabled by the use of Crypto Assets.

Mark has a keen personal interest in the challenges faced by the regulated sector and is a strong advocate of collaborative responses to the global threats of Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing.