Sarah Hutton

Sarah recently joined Frazer-Nash Consultancy as a Senior Consultant, on the Digital Advisory Team. She brings a wealth of experience from previous law enforcement and academic backgrounds, to assist with their 'cyber and psychology' approach. 

Prior to this, Sarah worked at the Business and Law Faculty at the Open University as a Lecturer, based on the Policing Organisation and Practice Team as part of a group designing and delivering the new Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) for new police officers, as well as contributing to the overall development of programmes under the Police Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF). There she was chairing the academic component of the second year of the apprenticeship degree and recently completed an MBA.

Sarah worked as a detective in both the Metropolitan Police and Sussex Police for 15 years. During this time, she worked for Operation Trident, as well as on a pilot project designed to monitor and disrupt those designated as high-level organised criminals. Within Sussex Police she specialised in rape and child abuse investigations. Research conducted whilst in the Met police contributed to her PhD thesis on organised crime, which in 2018 received the Open University Social Science prize. 

Her experience as an investigator and researcher within different police forces, has contributed to a wide variety of research interests within policing, particularly around organised crime, detective / organisational culture and safeguarding investigations.

Senior Consultant / Psychologist

Frazer-Nash Consultancy · Full-time

Feb 2023 - Present · 

Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom 

Module Chair / Manager and Academic Lecturer

The Open University

Apr 2018 - Feb 2023

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Detective Constable 

Sussex Police · Full-time

Apr 2015 - Aug 2019 ·

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Detective Constable

Metropolitan Police · Full-time

Nov 2004 - Apr 2015 ·

London, England, United Kingdom

MBA - The Open University 2022 (Business Administration)

PhD - The Open University 2017 (Criminology and Psychology)

MSc - The Open University 2013 (Forensic Psychology and Criminology)

BA - Cambridge University 2003 (English Literature)