[1][2][3][4] Cook was involved in quelling the Santo Rebellion,[5][6] and under his command the Vanuatu Mobile Force became ‘a disciplined and efficient paramilitary unit, displaying fine bearing on military occasions’.
[7] Cook began his career with the Royal Military Police before joining Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS).
[8] He was initially posted to Malawi[9][10] and later Belize before his appointment as Commander of the British Police Mobile Unit in the New Hebrides in 1978.
[1][2] Under Cook’s command, the Vanuatu Mobile Force became ‘a disciplined and efficient paramilitary unit, displaying fine bearing on military occasions’.
[1][2][3] Alongside Andrew Stuart, the last British Resident Commissioner of the New Hebrides,[11][12] Cook helped quell the Santo Rebellion.