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JOHN STALKER |
| John Stalker was a celebrated senior Manchester policeman who came to the publics' attention during the so called 'shoot-to-kill' scandal in Northern Ireland during the 1980s. |
| John started out as an 'on the beat' policeman in Manchester before transferring to the CID & quickly rising to the rank of Detective Superintendent. He was in the Serious Crime Squad, the Bomb Squad & the Drugs Squad. |
| In 1978, John (now 38) was made head of Warwickshire CID, the country's youngest Detective Chief Superintendent. He later became Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, the biggest provincial police force in the country with over 10,000 staff covering a population of three million. |
| John travelled around the world studying terrorism & crime & on his return worked for 2 years in Northern Ireland. Somewhat controversially, he revealed an alleged Royal Ulster Constabulary 'shoot-to-kill' policy, much to the embarrassment of the authorities, his superiors & the British Government & was made the victim of a 'dirty tricks' campaign to discredit him. |
| Accusations were made that John had attended social events where members of the Quality Street gang were present & was subsequently suspended from duty. The Quality Street Gang were said to be a group of Manchester's leading criminals involved in everything from serious crime to running arms to the IRA. John's innocence was proven & he was completely cleared of misconduct in 1985 & immediately reinstated. |
| Since leaving the force, John has established successful new careers in commerce & the media. He is a Director of a large national security company & runs his own busy consultancy & advisory group. |
| John Stalker is an experienced & successful manager of people & a powerful communicator on motivation & leadership. |
| He now writes regularly for several newspapers including; The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, The Observer & The Daily Telegraph. His book Stalker topped the best-sellers for many weeks with world-wide sales of over 400,000. |
| John appears regularly on television & is an adviser to several TV current affairs programmes. He has been a panelist on BBC TV's Question Time & also Have I Got News for You. He also presented Crimestalker for Central Television for 6 years & the award-winning series Inside Crime for Carlton TV. |
| John Stalker regularly presents seminars & motivational presentations for conferences & is a popular & entertaining after dinner speaker. |
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