Mr Martin Tangen

Role

Georg Martin Tangen (known as Martin) is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MSc International Law Enforcement within the School of Social Sciences.  Martin has previously been course leader for the BA Professional Policing degree from 2019 through 2023.

Career overview

Martin is a military veteran having started his working career in the Royal Air Force. He joined Leicestershire Police in 1995 and retired in 2019 having served in a variety of roles as a PC and  a Sergeant. Martin also spent a three year period working in the Caribbean as a civilian instructor for the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.

In 2015 Martin moved into the developing police role of Digital Media Investigator providing specialist advice around exploitation of digital aspects within criminal investigation including data recovery, Open Source intelligence, device exploitation, and vehicle telematics. As a result, he was instrumental in developing and promoting the exploitation of vehicle telematics data in crime investigation, and sat on the Police National telematics working group.

Martin has been Course Leader for NTU's Professional Policing degree provision for the last 5 years, developing and evolving the course to ensure that it reflects current requirements and issues in policing. Martin has recently taken course leadership for the MSc International Law Enforcement offering and is working to ensure that this offering offers knowledge, insight and experience related to the complexities of law enforcement across international boundaries.

External activity

Martin has been working in collaboration with Dimensions UK charity to highlight and improve the interactions between Criminal Justice Agencies and victims of Disability Hate Crime and those individuals who are neurodivergent. This collaboration has recently resulted in the release of a consolidated training package available to all criminal justice agencies under a free licence that aims to enhance disability and neurodiversity hate crime training.

Martin has also worked in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) to secure Partnership status for NTU and provide law enforcement students and other criminal justice sector students affiliate membership for the duration of their studies, thus enhancing and maximising students opportunities to engage with the cyber and digital environment in relation to law enforcement and criminal justice.