Pirates of the Indian Ocean

ISIS Returning Foreign Fighters

SPecial Forces in the Pacific

Counter Piracy Programme - Seychelles 2012

The Court building in island nation's bustling capital, Victoria, played host to the alleged Somali pirates captured by the Navies operating as part of Operation Atalanta, in the Indian Ocean.

Seychelles Courthose, Victoria, Mahe Island Capital

Seychelles Police Academy (SPA)

SPA Staff Cap

"With support from the Seychelles Home Affairs Minister responsible for policing and one of the force ACCs, a former head of the Seychelles Police Academy and now with strategic responsibility for training, I was provided an office to work on producing training materials, and assisting Academy staff .

Seized Somali Skiff, Seychelles

CID Refresher Course, Seychelles

Requested to revisit an earlier attempt to gain higher education accreditation for their recruit training, it became an added challenge in my own time whilst preparing a revised Recruit Training programme. Two years later the Seychelles University Diploma was eventually secured through the SQA.

Seychelles Qualification Authority & University of Seychelles - Police Diploma

Mont Fleuri Police Training Station, Seychelles

"The idea of a Training Station was another recommendation Richard and I had previously mooted, and the CP liked the idea ... Mont Fleuri station became the first Model Police Training Station for new recruits."

Global Maritime Crime Programme - The Maldives

Maldives, Police HQ, Male

Dhigurah Island Police Station, Maldives

NCTC Meeting, Maldives

Maldives Coastguard Vessel

Hangnaamedhoo Island Council Security Meeting, Maldives

Dhigurah Island Harbour Security Review

Trincomalee Naval Base, Sri Lanka

Evidence Search Exercise Debrief, Sri Lanka

Visit, Board, Search & Seizure (VBSS)

Training Navy & Special Forces Units

"As VBSS training advanced to boarding whilst underway, we were transferring to the target vessel from a RHIB. Following my fellow military trainers, I gained a foothold but only managed to pull myself up as far as the gunwales. I then had to be unceremoniously dragged the rest of the way and over the deck wall by my younger and fitter colleagues."

Vessel Boarding

Vessel Security Screen

Captured Iranian Drug Dhow

Batam, Indonesia

Baklama Maritime Security Badge

VBSS - CBRNE

Training Navy, Maritime Security Agency (Baklama & Coastguard Boarding Teams)

"I had looked forward to returning to Indonesia again. I first visited whilst serving in Hong Kong and further opportunities had come when the CoP sent me there to assist their national police with Intelligence Development. In Batam, the VBSS exercise scenarios were then remodelled around this CBRNE theme showing how the module could be developed for other specialist areas."