Mark Shields (police-officer)

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Mark Shields

Mark Shields is a policeman and currently the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Jamaica.

Shields came to international prominence during the investigation into the apparently suspicous death of former England test cricketer, and coach of the Pakistan national team, Bob Woolmer; he had formerly been head of the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police.

[edit] Early Life

Jamaica's Deputy Police Commissioner is a former Scotland Yard detective chief superintendent. He was a senior officer in the specialist crime directorate.

He had already been in Jamaica with Operation Trident, investigating London's black-on-black gun crime. Mr Shields joined the 8,000-strong force to help tackle the Caribbean island's culture of bloody gang violence.

A police officer for more than 30 years, Mark Shields was head of City of London Police's special branch from 1987 to 1990.

Later roles included a spell in Germany liaising on organised crime for British police and as a member of City of London's fraud squad.