Jamaica Constabulary Force 2004-2009 Investigation into the death of Bob Woolmer Mark Shields (born 1957) Is a former British law enforcement officer and security consultant.
[4] He also spent time as a member of the National Criminal Intelligence Service posted to Frankfurt, Germany as a drugs and organised crime liaison officer.
He also led investigations which resulted in the 2002 discovery of a large weapons cache in Hillingdon believed to have been stored by a criminal gang or professional contract killer.
[4] Shields first came to Jamaica at the request of Allan Brown of London's Metropolitan Police Service to aid in the investigation of Reneto Adams and four other policemen charged with 7 May 2003 murder of four civilians at Kraal, Clarendon Parish.
[1][2] He was one of a number of foreign police officers recruited for the JCF in those years, the others being fellow Britons Les Green and Justice Felice, and Canadian Paul Martin.
[6] He had initially been worried that he would be seen as a "colonialist" as a white man going into a black community in an authority position, but his fears about public perceptions of his role turned out to be unfounded.
At the time, hundreds of journalists were in the West Indies to cover the Cricket World Cup, making the media response to the murder immediate and intense.
Shields held frequent updates in the lobby of Jamaica Pegasus Hotel where Woolmer's body was found, and himself became the focus of media attention – too much, his detractors claimed.
Shields turned to his old Scotland Yard colleagues to review the investigation as he was not convinced of Dr Ere Seshiah, the pathologist's determination that Woolmer had been strangled.
[12] In late November, after 26 days of testimony from 57 witnesses, the 11-member jury convened to conduct the inquest into Woolmer's death concluded that there was insufficient evidence to return a verdict on its cause.
[15] Through his consultancy work, he would encourage Caribbean law enforcement agencies to adopt advanced technology and forensic techniques such as DNA profiling and telephone tapping on mobile phones.