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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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