Following military service, the author spent some years as a police officer with experience in the CID, Scene of Crime, Crime Prevention. This was followed by a move to the commercial security world, where he set up a security consultancy whose services were used by a number of UK/International companies and high profile entrepreneurs. These included Porsche Cars, NM Rothschild, Fisons, Pirelli General, Peter de Savary etc. One of the successful specialisations provided was countering industrial espionage by de-bugging premises and telephone systems. After some years as an independent, he joined previous clients Mecca Leisure and Rank Leisure, to act as their Security Advisor, dealing with problems posed in nightclubs and multi leisure centres across the country. By necessity this period concentrated on drug and drink misuse and related violence. Published work includes a chapter on industrial espionage for the Crime Writers Handbook, commissioned by the Crime Writers Association, an in-house Operational Security Manual for Rank Leisure and sundry minor articles for magazines.
