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From the frontlines at the Toxteth Riots to Special Branch during the Irish Troubles, Dr David Lowe is a specialist in counter-terrorism and globally recognised expert in the UK Government’s PREVENT policy. Now a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Law School, here he recounts his fascinating career and experiences from the Police CID and Special Branch to university academic and advisor.

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David is a senior research fellow at Leeds Beckett's Law School. Prior to entering academia David was police officer up to his retirement from the service in 2007  where he carried out various uniform and CID roles. During the latter part of his police career he began studying part time. After retiring as a detective sergeant, he began his academic career at Liverpool John Moores University's Law School.

Mainly due to his background and operational practice, David's main research interests are in terrorism & security, policing and criminal law. He is widely published in these areas and his expertise has been called on to be an expert witness that has included the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism unit, SO15 on terrorists' use of tradecraft (counter-surveillance techniques) and for the Irish state prosecutor and the Irish police (An Garda Siochana) regarding evidence obtained from electronic communications. David is consistently requested by national and international media for expert commentary in his research interests.

David is currently involved in a number of projects related to Prevent programme that assists those who are vulnerable to being drawn towards terrorism and in counter-extremism. This includes helping to develop practical exercises using LBU's Hydra suite. He is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Committee, where he attends meetings at the Houses of Parliament at Westminster to provide advice on Prevent. David is a member if the Academic Resilience & Security Community which is a network of universities formed to promote academic engagement in solving challenges in national security and resilience in the public sector. Academic RiSC is recognized by the Home Office and other Government Departments as a portal to academia for this area. David is a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner temple (one of the UK's four inns of Court).

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Dr David Lowe talks about policing and security across international borders and gives an outline of how international arrangements might look after any Brexit deal.

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International terrorism expert and legal analyst, David Lowe, from Liverpool John Moores University talks about the latest US airstrike against an al-Shabaab training camp in Somalia.

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