Nicholas Howard

Nick served as a UK Police officer for twenty seven years, retiring in the rank of Detective Superintendent, having previously completed five and a half years military service in HM Royal Marine Commandos. He is a UK Police Nationally accredited Kidnap & Extortion (K&E) Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), and has fourteen years K&E experience as a Senior Detective Officer within UK law enforcement. During this time he has performed the overall command role of SIO in some thirty five K&E cases, including International cases. In addition to the above he is a fully accredited UK Law Enforcement Agency K&E specialist service provision response Controller and operated for the National Crime Squad in support of all UK Police Forces in this capacity. Whilst in the National Crime Squad he was directly involved as the officer in overall command in some twenty Kidnap & Extortion cases (the majority involving the use of firearms), throughout the United Kingdom, together with International cases. He is a nationally accredited Counter Terrorism Senior Investigating Officer and a nationally accredited Covert Human Intelligence Source Authorising Officer at National and International level, and has experience of operating International sources.