Jerry Hewitt Email & Phone Number

Jerry Hewitt followed his fathers’ footsteps into UK law enforcement, joining Northumbria Police as a Cadet in 1978 and staying with them until his move to Magnet Forensics in July 2019. He has always had an interest in technology and gadgets. Building his first Sinclair ZX80 computer in the late 1970’s was his start in computing. He became a licensed Amateur Radio operator in the early 1980’s and connected the two hobbies long before the days of smartphones. Jerry was a proud member of Northumbria Police for over 40 years. He moved from Uniform beat patrol to the Motor Patrols Department and then Air Support where he was the training officer. Some time spent as an authorised firearms officer and then becoming a Detective in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He also worked as a remote staffer with AOL UK, yes, he still has an AOL Email address! During his time in CID he investigated many cases which involved Child Sexual Exploitation and the relatively new world of Digital Forensics.In 2009, he retired from Northumbria Police only to rejoin three months later, as a High-Tech Crime Unit Forensic Investigator. It was during this time that he first came across Jad Software’s Internet Evidence Finder (IEF). Six years after that and he became the Digital Forensic Unit Manager running a team of 30 staff and, with other stakeholders, helped make Northumbria Police DFU the excellent Unit it is today. Now part of the full time, United Kingdom based, training team for Magnet Forensics.

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