David Sherlock
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2022

KIRAT Training

An Articulate Storyline course for KIRAT, a police risk-assessment tool used in child-protection investigations. Built with CEDS, University of Liverpool researchers, the NCA, and the College of Policing so officers across the UK learned the same version of the tool the same way.

KIRAT is a police tool for prioritising child-protection investigations. I did not invent it. A research team led by Laurence Alison has been working on it with the NCA since 2011. What I did, with Michael Humann in CEDS, was the 2022 training package, in Storyline.

The research review had found that forces were using the same form in slightly different ways, often because people had drifted from the original training. The course was meant to put a shared version in front of officers: what the tool is, how it was developed, how to apply it. The knowledge sits with researchers and specialist officers. The course has to be something a new starter can complete, and it has to live on the College of Policing platform, which means no public URL.

It went out to the 43 Home Office forces in England and Wales, plus Police Scotland and the PSNI. I cannot link the course itself. That is the point of putting it there: the people who need it can get it, and it is not sitting on the open web.

The mashup

A Storyline course for a police risk tool, so every force got the same version.

AI-generated guess of the mashup mix, 1 to 5. Click a stat.

KIRAT 5/5: The Kent Internet Risk Assessment Tool. The course had to teach it, not invent it.

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Notes to self for media to add
  • Do not screenshot the live course, case material, or KIRAT form steps unless the College of Policing / NCA are happy with it. This is not a public demo.
  • Safer pictures, if any: the university news story, a Storyline authoring screenshot with dummy content, or a simple diagram of “research tool → shared course → every force”.
  • Skip: anything that looks like operational guidance, offender data, or a walkthrough of the actual assessment.