Listeners will gain practical insight into:

👮 The life cycle of a cybercrime investigation within a police agency

🧑🏽‍💻 How digital evidence, data preservation, and case law shape investigative decisions

👮🧑🏽‍💻 Why cybercrime is a team sport, requiring close collaboration between sworn investigators, civilian analysts, prosecutors, and international partners

⚖️ How Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and Europol’s Joint Cyber Action Taskforce (JCAT) are used in real investigations

🌐 What successful public-private partnerships look like in cyber investigations

The episode also delivers career-focused guidance for law enforcement officers and agencies developing cyber units. Kenrick explains why agencies must balance investigative skills with technical expertise, how civilianisation strengthens cyber teams, and what training pathways best prepare investigators for handling large-scale digital evidence and complex prosecutions. He offers candid advice for officers transitioning into cyber roles and for agencies looking to mature their cybercrime investigative model.

Looking ahead, the conversation explores the growing impact of AI in cybercrime, the challenges of evidence scale and complexity, and the tools investigators need to shorten investigative timelines and keep pace with sophisticated threat actors. This episode is essential listening for police leaders, cybercrime investigators, intelligence units, digital forensics teams, prosecutors, and law enforcement professionals seeking a grounded, experience-driven understanding of how cybercrime is investigated and how the next generation of cyber investigators is being built.

In this powerful episode of Siren Investigates, host John Randles sits down with Vice Admiral (Rtd) Mark Mellett, former Chief of Staff of Ireland’s Defence Forces, to unpack the shifting foundations of European security and sovereignty. With decades of leadership experience across the UN, NATO, and Irish Defence Forces. The conversation opens with a fundamental question: what does sovereignty mean in today’s interconnected Europe? Mark argues that sovereignty is like property—you only own it if you can defend it. He warns that many European nations, including Ireland, have “free-ridden” on decades of peace without investing adequately in defense or resilience. Drawing on history from post–World War II recovery to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mark explains how Europe’s sense of security has been eroding for years, and why 21st-century threats require both **military strength and societal awareness

Topics Covered

🌐 How Europe must redefine sovereignty in an era of hybrid warfare

🌐 The rise of AI and innovation as force multipliers in defense

🌐 Why strategic autonomy and collaboration are vital for Europe’s future

🌐 Ireland’s role in a new security landscape and the urgent need to act

🌐 Climate change as the next frontier of geopolitical conflict

🔍 Siren Investigates explores the technology and intelligence shaping how we keep people, assets, and networks safe.

In this episode of Siren Investigates, host John Randles, CEO of Siren, sits down with Julian Stodd, writer, researcher, and founder of Sea Salt Learning, to explore how generative AI is reshaping the world around us.

Julian, author of The Engines of Engagement: A Curious Book About Generative AI, shares deep insights into how technology is transforming identity, trust, power, and leadership and what this means for law enforcement, national security, and investigations.

Together, they unpack how AI is not just changing systems, it’s changing the system itself. From disinformation and digital identity to the future of policing, this episode challenges us to rethink what truth means in the social age.

🎙️ In this conversation:

✨ Why curiosity, not fear, is the key to leading through uncertainty

✨ How AI disrupts truth, identity, and social trust

✨ Lessons from NASA and SpaceX on failure and adaptation

✨ The rise of disinformation and deepfakes in criminal investigations

✨ How law enforcement and national security teams can adapt

✨ Why compassion and civility must guide innovation

If you’re interested in AI and society, investigative intelligence, or how technology shapes the future of security and governance — this conversation will change how you think.

🔗 Learn more about Siren’s technology for law enforcement and intelligence: https://www.siren.io

👉 Watch to learn how leaders and investigators can thrive in a world where ambiguity is not the enemy it’s the key to resilience.