Debbie specialised in business crime at Kingsley Napley Solicitors before joining the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) Organised Crime Division, prosecuting serious and complex organised crime, particularly money laundering.

In 2012 she was seconded to the Home Office as the Head of the UK Central Authority, responsible for incoming and outgoing MLA requests and extradition for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

On returning to the CPS in 2015, she was appointed Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor (DCCP) for the Extradition Unit, and later CPS International, managing a team of over 50 staff posted overseas and leading the organisations preparation for EU Exit. In 2019, on loan to the NCA as a Deputy Director in the National Economic Crime Centre, she was Head of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) and responsible for the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and the Proceeds of Crime Centre.

Currently DCCP for the CPS Proceeds of Crime Division, she is a key strategic player in the UK’s asset recovery community, responsible for the CPS’ most complex restraint, confiscation and the enforcement casework well as developing non-conviction-based asset recovery with the new Civil Recovery Unit.