Chat with DCP Mark Shields about Crime
In Jamaica
Newly
appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mark Shields will be discussing
the crime situation in Jamaica on www.go-jamaica.com
on Thursday 12 May, 2005 at 6pm (EST).
You can speak to him on all issues concerning crime in Jamaica.
If you have any information you would like to share with him, you
can in this forum.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mark Shields is here on secondment
with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) from Scotland Yard. He
has more than 30 years experience in the police force.
Career Summary - served as during this period:
Aug 87/Sep 90 - Served as Detective Inspector - Head of
City of London Police Special Branch
July 90/Sep 90 - Detective Inspector Anti-terrorist Branch,
New Scotland Yard
Sept 90/Jun 93 - Social Sciences Degree Course, University
of Essex
Jun 93/May 94 - City of London Police, Corporate Support
May 94/Aug 97 - Detective Chief Inspector - National Criminal
Intelligence Service, Drug & Organised Crime Liaison Officer,
Frankfurt, Germany
Aug 97/Mar 98 - City of London Police Fraud Squad- Member
of Command Team for Fraud Squad.
March 1998 - Transferred to Essex Police
June 99/Sep 01 - Support Manager, Crime Division, Essex
Police
October 2001 - Transferred to Metropolitan Police Service
- New Scotland Yard
Oct 01/present - Detective Superintendent, Serious &
Organised Crime, New Scotland yard
- Managing proactive investigation teams with pan-London responsibility
for tackling gun-crime, drug trafficking and contracts to kill
- Managing and coordinating national/international kidnap investigations
- Managing other sensitive confidential investigations including
extortion, blackmail and other threats to high-profile individuals
and organizations. e.g. Conspiracy to kidnap Victoria Beckham,
threats to English Football Premiership.
- Currently leading an investigation into extra judicial killings
committed by Jamaican Police on its civilians.
May 2003 - Detective Chief Superintendent - Assistance to
Jamaican Constabulary Force
- Senior Investigating Officer investigating the fatal shooting
of four people at Crawle, Jamaica by the Jamaican Constabulary
Force, Crime Management Unit, Six police officers charged with
murder
- Conducted a number of reviews into other investigations of the
fatal shootings
- Assisted the JCF Organised Crime Unit with a kidnap investigation
in Jamaica concerning a British national. Hostage safely recovered
and three arrests subsequently made.
- Assisted the JCF with an investigation into the abduction and
disappearance of two men allegedly by the JCF Organised Crime
Unit. One officer charged.
June 2004 - Detective Chief Superintendent - Metropolitan
Police Service, Special Branch (MPSB)
- Head of international and domestic counter terrorism
- Head of covert operations and prison intelligence unit
- Took lead in the reorganization and restructuring of the MPSB
- Senior Investigating Officer in three international terrorist
related kidnaps, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan
March 2005 - Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Jamaica
Constabulary Force.
Chat with Mark Shields
Date: Thursday May 12, 2005
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
http://www.go-jamaica.com/chat/
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