Membership is open to anyone currently or formerly employed in analysis in the context of crime or intelligence, whether public or private sector in the UK or Ireland. This includes (but is not limited to) intelligence, fraud, crime and military analysts and researchers. Membership is also open to students (aged 18 or over) or academics, with a demonstrated interest in crime or intelligence analysis.

All applicants are required to provide a suitable referee, however if you apply with a police pnn or Govt. gsi email address this is usually sufficient, if you don't have this then your referee needs to be someone who can confirm you work in the relevant sector whose own status we can verify.

There are three types of membership available:

• Individual:     for people who wish to join themselves and pay their own fee
• Organisational:   for organisations that wish to sign up some or all of their staff members
• Corporate:   for Companies who wish to sign up to support the Association and its objectives

• Interact with other analysts with a wide variety of specialist knowledge 
• Receive advice from experienced analysts on specific problems  
• Have you own knowledge and expertise recognised within the analytical community 
• Become part of a wider analytical community 
• Enter national and international awards processes
• Access a members only area of the website, including interactive forum

To complement the significant investment made by employers in formal analytical training, ACIA exists to fill the gap between attending courses and delivering competent products. ACIA facilitates analysts’ Continuous Professional Development (CPD) through the provision of easily accessible opportunities to learn and develop.

Members are able to access an ever-growing wealth of resources and knowledge to support their professional development needs via the ACIA website: www.acia.org.uk.

The association also facilitates networking with other members across a diverse range of analytical backgrounds (government, law enforcement and private sector).

We believe this practitioner-to-practitioner connection to be of significant benefit to employers as members share skills and experience to help each other apply analytical practise to problems affecting communities and businesses from neighbourhood level up to serious and organised criminality.

ACIA is entirely non-profit making with minimal overheads, and many of our activities are made possible by the contributions of our Corporate members and other supporting organisations. 

Joining ACIA as a corporate member is a very cost effective way to reach a specific target market, develop brand image, strengthen key client relationships or communicate key strategic messages.  In return for your membership, your business will be able to promote its name, products and services to specific markets.

Specific benefits of Gold Corporate Membership 

• Full use of the members area of the website
• Copies of all ACIA publications
• Link to your company website from the ACIA website
• Free posting of vacancies
• Opportunity to have a stand at ACIA conferences
• Free attendance at UK-wide networking events
• Opportunity to sponsor ACIA events, activities, projects and publications 
• Opportunity to take up Project membership (e.g. join the Awards project)

Specific benefits of Platinum Corporate Membership

All of the above Gold Member benefits plus:

• One of only 3 platinum members 
• Advisory panel membership in a 'sponsor member' position on the board - however this post does not qualify for election to one of the Executive posts. 
• Contribution of a flyer to all new member packs 
• Option to 'blind' target ACIA members with specific marketing material, max. of twice a year. 
• Involvement in think tanks and an option to post on discussion forums. 
• first refusal to sponsor an award(s) for the ACIA annual awards process
• first refusal to sponsor ACIA events (e.g. workshops, conferences)

If you would prefer to support ACIA through sponsorship of some of our activities on an ad-hoc or one-off basis then please contact the President to discuss: President@acia.org.uk

Individual Membership Fee

Individual membership fees are currently only £25 per year!

Organisational Membership Fees

Recognising the value of organisation-wide membership and reflecting bulk efficiencies, such as sending all membership packs in one parcel where possible, ACIA has established sliding-scale discount for multiple membership:

• 5 – 10 members: 15% discount e.g.   6 members =  £21 each  
• 11 – 20 members: 20% discount e.g. 12 members =  £20 each
• 21 – 40 members: 30% discount e.g. 25 members =  £18 each 
• 40+ members: by negotiation please email: Membership@acia.org.uk

Corporate Membership Fee

Gold Corporate Membership costs £5,000 

Platinum Corporate Membership costs £10,000 

Membership Renewal

Membership for all types lasts for one year.

Note in the first few years of its existence ACIA did not seek annual renewals and extended all memberships several times. This was due, as a non-profit association, to significant financial support from various organisations. 

Please note in any event we will send you a reminder shortly before your renewal is due.