Paul Martin

Senior Police Adviser (Transnational Threats), Public Safety and Community Outreach Department, OSCE – Mission to Skopje

Paul Martin is a career law enforcement investigator and an international expert on police vetting and transnational threats capacity building. He has worked for the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia for 6 years. Prior to that he worked for the National Crime Agency and its pre-cursor agencies as a senior investigating officer with the tri-powers of a police, customs and immigration officers which he used to investigate, disrupt and dismantle transnational organized crime groups. He has used these skills for capacity building activities especially in the areas of integrated border management; border security; countering transnational organized crime and countering institutional corruption with an emphasis on insider threats, with an emphasis on the Western Balkans. His post graduate studies were in countering fraud and corruption at the University of Portsmouth. He is currently leading the OSCE Mission to Skopje’s Transnational Threats Team.