Samantha Thompson

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Biography

Samantha is participation and engagement manager at Marie Collins Foundation, where she supports victims and survivors to influence understanding, policy, professional practice, training and law relating to technology-assisted child sexual abuse.

Samantha has worked across criminal justice, policing and the charity sector since completing a first-class honours degree in criminology in 2014. She also holds a Master’s degree with distinction in forensic psychology.

As a detective with the Metropolitan Police Service and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit, Samantha specialised in online child sexual abuse and exploitation and high-harm online offending.

She led serious and complex investigations, secured offender convictions and safeguarded multiple children. She received three police commendations recognising her professionalism, investigative ability, resilience and exceptional victim care.

Her earlier experience includes delivering offending-behaviour programmes in prison and domestic abuse interventions in the charity sector.

Samantha is also completing advanced training in integrative psychotherapy and provides voluntary therapy as part of her studies. Her work combines investigative expertise with a strong commitment to trauma-informed, victim-centred participation.

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