Training

Forensic speaker

by Mark Rowe

Howard Tucker will be among the guest speakers at the Forensic and Policing Services Association (FAPSA) Conference 2016. The event on May 12 and 13 at Leicester is sponsored by Go4it Consulting Ltd. Howard was 28 years as a police officer with South Wales and Gwent, of which 25 years were as a front line detective constable investigating all forms of criminal activity which included three years in the Regional Crime Squad investigating major and organised crime.

In 1998, he was seconded as an investigator to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UN ICTY) and was initially based at the organisation’s headquarters in The Hague.

The UN ICTY is mandated to investigate and prosecute person’s suspected of responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law (“War Crimes” and “Crimes against Humanity”) in the former Yugoslavia.

On arrival at the ICTY, Howard was attached to an investigative team that conducted investigations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia.

In 1999, Howard secured a five-year career break from the police to continue working for the UN ICTY and in 2004, he resigned from the British police to pursue his “new” career with the UN. In 2005, Howard was promoted to Head of Mission representing the ICTY in their offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was involved in numerous investigations with the ICTY that included the search for, and arrest of, such high profile perpetrators as Ratko MLADIC the Bosnian Serb Commander of Bosnian Serb military forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war (put on trial in The Hague) and Radovan KARADZIC, the Bosnian Serb President during the war (recently sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment for genocide and other atrocities).

Howard was the coordinator of numerous exhumations of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and FYROM and he assisted in the recovery of hundreds of victims from these sites. He also participated in the recovery and storage of artefacts and exhibits recovered from these exhumations and subsequently assisted in the autopsies of many of the victims.

During his 16 years with the ICTY, Howard interviewed hundreds of witnesses and victims of these atrocities and he has testified before the courts of the UN ICTY.

Howard retired from the UN in 2014 and started his own consultation company and has been involved in investigations that include road traffic accident investigation, theft, fraud and intellectual property theft.
Howard is also a qualified trainer and has returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina periodically to assist in the training and mentoring of local law enforcement agencies where he was involved in various training activities and presentations regarding international investigations and prosecutions.

Howard is also qualified as a trainer in the UK and he is a qualified international lead auditor in BS 10200 and ISO 9001. He holds a MSc in Forensic Investigations.

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