PDA specialises in the design and delivery of counter fraud training.  We offer accredited training that leads to recognised counter fraud industry qualifications or ad hoc events to encourage and support Continuing Professional Development (CPD).  We provide a flexible approach to work in partnership with all our customers to deliver learning that equips students with the skills and knowledge to carry out the full range of duties. 

We now offer the majority of our programmes and courses, including the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) and Accredited Counter Fraud Technician (ACFTech), via a blended learning approach using Zoom.  We continue to develop and offer new courses such as Digital Document Fraud and Investigating Fraud on the Dark Web (both delivered via Moodle)

All our trainers have worked in the Counter Fraud environment and hold the Accredited Counter Fraud Trainer award.  Peter Chairs the Counter Fraud Professional Accreditation Board (CFPAB) Training and Education Committee (TEC) and is a member of the Cabinet Office Cross Sector Advisory Group. 

Please take time to look through our website www.pdacounterfraud.co.ukto find out more about us, our services and what our customers have to say about our training or contact Peter on 07714 216126 or peter@pdacounterfraud.co.uk

Rachael was Head of Audit and Counter Fraud in 3 London Boroughs. At the National Fraud Authority, Home Office in 2010 as Head of Public Sector Fraud she researched and drafted the first local government counter fraud strategy Fighting Fraud Locally ( FFL) and created pilot data hubs using partnerships. In 2013 she joined the MoD as manager of the Fraud Defence Unit.

In 2014 she created the CIPFA Counter Fraud Centre - creating qualifications and services, drafting the second FFCL Strategy for HMG .Whilst here she created a consortium of data partners leading the team to win the contract for the London Counter Fraud Hub.

Rachael is a well-known speaker and author on counter fraud and corruption, sitting on a number of industry Boards. She is the Independent Person for Standards and Ethics at the LB Tower Hamlets. In 2017 she won the Stella Walsh Award “Lifetime Achievement in Countering Fraud”. Rachael currently hosts a regular spot on CLGdotTV interviewing other counter fraud experts. Rachael is Director of Public Sector at Cifas – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service.

Mike’s presentation is taken from ITS’ popular Socially Distanced Investigations course.

Mike tried his hand at many things before getting caught up in the world of training.  Having proved he could be trusted with unit trusts, and that he could calculate the best way to build computers, he assessed that he wasn’t cut out for a career in benefits, glazed over when working in a glass warehouse and the less said about the plastering job the better!

More by luck than judgement, he discovered fraud detection and prevention, and ended up looking at organised fraud, a role that gave him opportunities to work with many government departments and police forces throughout the UK.  After a spell on surveillance, he took over the running of a computer unit, becoming a HOLMES system manager and teaching himself to programme.  Mike decided investigation was the best job in the world and decided to stay until he discovered training, which is often just as much fun and (normally) far less dangerous.

Now that ITS Training (where Mike is Managing Director, does the psychology training and some of the investigation training) is over eighteen years old (and officially grown up), he feels compelled to find new things to do.  Currently that includes the launch of a new eTraining website, making training work using Zoom, and NIOG – the National Investigation Officers’ Group.  The biggest thing right now is the Socially Distanced Investigations training that ITS is delivering across the country (well, virtually…)

He’s also fairly busy with executive coaching, corporate relationships and consultancy.  In his marginal time (!) he is working on a few new projects around the teaching of NLP and personal change / life coaching and fighting a losing battle with a Zelda addiction…