What Disklabs Will Do For You....

Mobile Phone Forensics specialists at Disklabs will investigate your mobile phone providing,
you with a forensically sound report, following ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers)
guidelines. Court room experienced Mobile Phone Forensic Analysts undertake this work.

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Expert Witness

Expert witnesses are frequently required to interpret computer evidence or mobile phone evidence produced to the court for both the legal teams and the jurors. Disklabs Computer Forensics, (specialists in computer investigations and mobile phone investigations), can provide you with a wealth of expertise from expert witnesses that have vast amounts of computer forensics experience, are court room experienced and are able to provide clear, simple explanations of matters of computer relevance to a case.

Biography of Tony Neate

Tony started his career in law enforcement in 1976 when he became a Police Officer with the South Wales Police. Having been a detective for 28 years he has dealt with all aspects of serious crime, from theft to murder, rape and extortion to fraud and armed robbery.

In 1989 Tony moved to the Commercial Fraud Squad where for over six years he ran investigations into large-scale serious and organised fraud.  These included corporate computer fraud, major investment fraud, long firm fraud, large-scale credit card abuse, as well as public sector corruption and election fraud.

In 1995 he became heavily involved in the investigation of hi-tech crime. He set up the Hi-Tech Crime Unit within South Wales Police, being one of a handful of digital evidence examiners in the country. He subsequently dealt with numerous computer-related offences including hacking, online child abuse, denial of service attacks, cyber stalking, email abuse and Phishing.

In 1996 Tony became a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (ACPO) Hi-Tech Crime Working Group, formed to provide strategic advice to Chief Police Officers within the United Kingdom. He was the national secretary to the group from 2001 to 2006.  In 1997, he became a visiting lecturer at the National Police Staff College at Bramshill on all their computer crime courses.

On the 1st October 2001, he took up the Industry Liaison position within the newly formed National Hi-Tech Crime Unit based in London.  The unit was the lynchpin in the United Kingdom’s co-ordinated response to cyber-crime. His role within the Unit was to form a coordinated partnership with industry, to ease the flow of information between the private sector and law enforcement regarding hi-tech crime.

He sat on a number of groups including the Fraud Advisory Panel, the Digital Evidence Group (DEG), European Information Security Group (EURIM) and is a founder member of the Internet Crime Forum (ICF) and the All Wales E-Crime Steering Group.

He is a member of the Get Safe Online steering group an initiative to bring together law enforcement, government and private sector organisations to educate computer users in becoming more secure whilst online by the use of a dedicated web portal. Tony is now one of the main spokespeople for the campaign.

On the 1st April 2006 the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit together with the National Crime Squad, National Criminal Intelligence Service, investigators from Revenue & Customs and the Immigration Service amalgamated to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Tony moved from the NHTCU to take up his position within this new organisation.

In 2006 Tony took up the role of non executive director of Disklabs Forensics, a company he had worked with previously. Tony advises on methodology, policy and procedures, practises computer forensics and regularly audits the work carried out by Disklabs analysts.