Formerly an Investigator with the UK's Royal Military Police (Special Investigation Branch), Daren qualified as a UK Home Office Investigative Interviewing Trainer in 1996 and later trained and successfully qualified with Kent Police (UK) as a Tier 3 Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) Video Interviewer of Vulnerable Persons.

Daren has been employed as a Lecturer in Policing with CSU since 2008 and is currently appointed as the Subject Coordinator of JST313 'Investigative Interviewing.