A former Chief Inspector with the National Police Chiefs' Council and International Strategic Policing Advisor, with 31 years' policing experience leading international engagement, counter terrorism, serious and organised crime and financial crime work, and delivering training, coaching and consultancy that strengthens policing capability in some of the world's most complex and unstable environments.
International Policing, Crisis and Risk Management, Counter Terrorism, Serious and Organised Crime, Financial Crime, Intelligence, Training and Development, Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership and Management, and Ethics and Professional Standards.
Experience:
31 years of policing experience, retiring in 2026 as Chief Inspector Staff Officer to the Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Head of the NPCC Strategic Hub. Following secondments to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2016 and the Home Office in 2020, Mark played a lead role in creating and developing the Joint International Policing Hub (JIPH), representing UK policing in more than 30 countries and positioning the UK police service at the forefront of international engagement. He led the Home Office and Vietnamese People's Police human trafficking training programme and served on consortia and steering boards including the European Union Police & Civilian Services Training (EUPCST), the International Police Advisors Masterclass (IPAM), the Open University Centre for Policing Research & Learning and the International Police Experts Network. A qualified Trainer of Trainers and Coach/Mentor, he holds an MSc in International Policing, a BSc in Security Management and two Level 6 qualifications in Leadership & Management and in Risk & Crisis Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (FISRM), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Chartered Member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), a long-standing Member of the Security Institute (MSyI) and an Alumnus of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and ISSAT DCAF..
Mark is a former Chief Inspector who retired in 2026 after a 31-year policing career, most recently as Staff Officer to the Head of the NPCC Strategic Hub and to the Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council. His earlier service spanned counter terrorism, serious and organised crime, intelligence and financial crime across Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and City of London forces, giving him a deep operational grounding that he now brings to both public and private sector clients through consultancy work.
Seconded to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2016 and later to the Home Office, Mark played a lead role in creating and developing the Joint International Policing Hub, the UK's centre of excellence for international policing. As an International Strategic Policing Advisor and International Engagement Officer he represented UK government and policing in more than 30 countries, oversaw proposals for the provision of overseas police assistance, and advised on the UK's response to critical international events - from Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean, where he supported COBR and the deployment of UK officers on humanitarian relief, to instability in Lebanon and Mali. Throughout, he built and maintained enduring partnerships with the National Crime Agency, the College of Policing and academic institutions.
Between 2017 and 2021 Mark was at the forefront of creating and delivering the Home Office Modern Slavery Team and Vietnamese People's Police human trafficking training programme, a bespoke, multi-year programme he continues to lead. In 2019 he was awarded an International Police Association Arthur Troop Scholarship to study transnational child sexual exploitation with the Australian Federal Police and the Asian Region Law Enforcement Management Programme (ARLEMP), later returning as a subject matter expert on ARLEMP's Pandemic and Resilience Preparedness programme.
In 2023 Mark founded a teaching programme for Ukrainian police cadets, working in partnership with UK police forces, international academic institutions and the Foundation for Institutional Development (Ukraine). He is a visiting lecturer and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Lviv State University of Internal Affairs, where he initiated and teaches Ethics and Professional Standards in public office alongside English language training, and he coordinates the shipping and delivery of decommissioned UK police uniform to Ukraine.
A qualified Trainer of Trainers and Coach/Mentor with an academic and professional background in leadership and management, training, security, and crisis and risk management, Mark holds an MSc in International Policing, a BSc in Security Management and Level 6 qualifications in both Leadership & Management and Risk & Crisis Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a long-standing Member of the Security Institute and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Management Institute.
Former Commissioner of Police | International Policing & Executive Leadership Specialist
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