International Drug Smuggling
Malcolm Nelson SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Organisation:
- N/A
- Regions:
- London, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, Kent
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional/Charity
- Fee:
- Paid: calculated by size of audoence and distance to travel
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 8th December 2020
- Tagged:
- True Crime
List of talks for Malcolm Nelson. 07758804810 malcolmgnelson@gmail.com
All the first 10 talks are prefixed by “Forty Years Catching Smugglers”.
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Forty Years Catching Smugglers” The opening talk introduces the audience to the mysteries of just how Customs Officers catch smugglers. Interesting, bizarre, often hilarious, and sometimes sad, but never never dull.
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“Why do I always feel so guilty?” An insight into how Customs Officers select passengers who they think might be carrying drugs. Just what is it they are looking for? What are the tell-tale signs? How do the guilty ones give themselves away? And why do we always feel so guilty as we walk through the Customs controls.
3.“You’re Nicked!!” Drugs have been found. What happens next? Pictures of actual drug concealments with the real life stories behind the pictures. Malcolm was either the detecting Officer or was connected to each one.
4.“It must have been something I ate.” A detailed look at how people who swallow drugs as means of concealment are detected and processed. It includes pictures and x-rays of offenders. Not for the fainthearted (ha ha) Ships, Boats and Planes. A look at other ways and types of smuggling. Small planes, yachts, containers, cars, and ships carrying drugs, cigarettes, and “people”.
5.Modern Day Smuggling; “Whatever will they think of next” A look at some of the bizarre methods smugglers use. Just how will the Mexican cartels overcome President Trumps wall. From submarines to ambulances nothing is sacrosanct.
6.A Case Study; This talk takes the audience through a particularly complicated offence from interception in the Green Channel to Crown Court. You the audience are the jury. And if you find the accused guilty, you are the judge.
7.Bluff and counter bluff in the Red Channel. Smuggling doesn't just take place in the Green Channel. The wily smuggler will often try the double bluff by going into the Red and declaring goods. But in the end, just who bluffs who
8.Lies and Excuses: An insight into how Customs Officers detect items such as cigarettes, fur coats, jewellery. This includes hints about who some of the more famous people Malcolm came across during his 40 years as a Customs Officer.
Historical Smuggling in the UK
1.Two modern day famous smugglers. An in depth look at two famous or infamous smugglers ; Howard Marks (Mr Nice) and Curtis (Cocky ) Warren; one of whom actually made his way onto the Sunday Times “Rich List”.
2.Smugglers of yesteryear; A detailed look at smugglers from the 17th and 18th century
3.The history of smuggling from the 6th century to modern day. Just how smuggling and the methods of counteracting it developed over the centuries Smuggling gangs of the 16th and 17th century. Was this the beginning of “organised crime” as we know it.
Views: 1321 | Enquiries: 43About Malcolm Nelson
Malcolm Nelson worked for 40 years for HM Customs and Excise. He worked on every aspect of catching smugglers. He was mainly based at Heathrow but he also spent time at London Port, Dover, St Petersburg (Russia), Malta, and at most major airports throughout the EU.
He is credited with the largest quantity of drugs by weight ever found in a single suitcase. Forty two kilos of compressed herbal cannabis concealed inside plantains that had been scooped out and sewn back together again. Then left to rot.
As a senior manager he led the first Customs and Excise Division to attain the Cabinet Office Charter Mark accreditation for service delivery. Very difficult in a law enforcement working environment. Since retirement in 2005 he has developed his speaking activity and now delivers in excess of 80 talks a year to clubs and societies throughout the south of England, and speaks on 4 or 5 cruises each year. He is a both a criminologist (member of the BSC) and a historian. His main programme of talks is entitled "40 years of catching smugglers". In this series of talks he uses his experience to give his audience an insight into just how Customs Officers catch smugglers. However he also gives talks on the history of smuggling, historical events in Australia, South America, and the USA. His talks are invariably informative and his unique style of delivery make them both entertaining and, where appropriate, extremely amusing. He is an accomplished speaker having been trained in Advanced Presentational Skills. He is a member of the British Society of Criminologists and he is accredited by the Australian Tourist Board as an "Aussie Specialist". His first book "Forty Years Catching Smugglers" was published in 2011 and his second "The Pursuit of the Two Legged Drug Mule" was published in March 2017.
He was educated at William Morris Technical High School where he attained 8 “O” Level GCE’s and 3 “A” Level passes.
He was employed by Westminster Bank and then he joined HM Customs and Excise where he remained for 40 years. Rising from the lowest rank (Assistant Preventive Officer ) to one below the most senior ( Assistant Collector) rank.
He is married with 3 children, 1 granddaughter, and a great grandson. He supports Spurs and Essex County Cricket and drinks rum.
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