The National Intelligence Model: Rebuilding the strategic brain of British policing

10th July 2026Marcus Barnett, Senior Adviser, Larsen Consultancy

The National Intelligence Model (NIM), launched in the UK more than 20 years ago, was a “quiet revolution” in policing; former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Superintendent Marcus Barnett, a senior adviser at Larsen Consultancy which has been working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council on the reinvestment, relaunch and refocus of the NIM, believes that the renewed model could define the next generation of British policing.

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The National Intelligence Model: Rebuilding the strategic brain of British policing

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