The Academy.
Operational enablement, not generic training.
The Trace Vantage Academy exists to make force teams effective on the platform inside live investigations. Enablement is role-based and competence-led: administrators, analysts, investigators, supervisors, disclosure users and technical teams each learn what their own work requires, against the workflows they run every day.
Programmes are delivered on your terms, on-site at the force location or remotely, and can build a self-sufficient in-force training capability through train-the-trainer and refresher pathways.
Enablement mapped to the role, the workflow and the standard.
A single generic course teaches everyone the same features and leaves each role to translate them into its own job. The Academy inverts that. Each pathway starts from what a role is accountable for, uses that role's real tasks as the material, and finishes with an assessment of whether the person can do the work. The result is measured competence on the platform, not attendance on a course.
Role-anchored
Content is scoped to the responsibilities and permissions of the role, so learning maps directly to daily work.
Workflow-based
People learn against realistic case scenarios and the actual tasks they will perform, using synthetic demonstration data.
Competence-led
Each pathway concludes with an assessment against defined outcomes, evidencing readiness rather than exposure.
A pathway for every role that touches the platform.
Each pathway sets out what the role learns and the operational outcome it is designed to reach.
Run the platform with confidence
Identity and access controls, user and permission management, module configuration, retention and policy settings, health monitoring and routine operational administration.
Outcome: administrators can configure, maintain and assure the deployment without vendor dependency.
Turn data into assessed intelligence
Data interrogation, entity resolution, link and network analysis, financial, communications and geospatial intelligence, and working with governed AI under human review.
Outcome: analysts produce well-sourced, provenance-carrying products that stand up to supervisory and evidential review.
Drive a case from intake to file
Case command, action management, timelines, collection and ingestion, searching across sources, and promoting material into the evidential record.
Outcome: investigators run a case end to end within one governed environment.
Oversee, authorise and assure
Supervisory review, authorisation and tasking, oversight of AI use and analytical products, readiness and audit visibility, and managing handling controls across a team.
Outcome: supervisors can evidence decisions, authorisations and lawful basis under scrutiny.
Meet the disclosure standard
Evidence vault and provenance, exhibit handling, disclosure schedules, court bundles and the tamper-evident audit trail that supports them.
Outcome: disclosure officers assemble complete bundles with a clear, evidenced chain of custody.
Deploy, integrate and sustain
Deployment topology, integration and connectors, the optional AI gateway, backups and monitoring, security posture and update procedures within the force environment.
Outcome: force IT and security teams own the operation and integration of the platform.
Build a training capability the force owns.
Enablement should not end when the delivery team leaves. Train-the-trainer develops nominated in-force practitioners to deliver and assess the role pathways themselves, while competence and refresher programmes keep skills current as teams change and the platform evolves.
Train-the-trainer
Nominated in-force trainers are developed to deliver, assess and maintain the role pathways, so the force builds its own enablement capability.
Competence assessment
Defined outcomes per role are assessed against realistic tasks, giving supervisors an auditable record of who is signed off to do what.
Refresher & uplift
Periodic refreshers and update sessions keep teams current with new releases, changed workflows and governed-AI changes.
Onboarding
New joiners follow the same role pathway, so competence is consistent as teams change over the life of the platform.
On-site or remote. Competence-based throughout.
Programmes are scoped to the force, its editions and the roles in scope, and delivered in the way that suits the operational context. Delivery uses synthetic demonstration data rather than live case material.
At the force location
Delivered within the force environment, on the deployed platform, so teams learn on the system and configuration they will actually use.
Delivered remotely
The same role pathways delivered remotely for distributed teams, refreshers and onboarding, without displacing operational staff.
Measured against outcomes
Every format is assessed against the same defined outcomes, so competence is consistent however a team is trained.
Scope, sequencing and duration are set with the force during implementation and reviewed as the deployment evolves.
Plan enablement around your teams and roles.
Scope the role pathways, delivery model and competence standards that fit your force, then see them against the platform they support.