Ex-police spy Mark Kennedy's current business activities
Gebal | 01.06.2012 13:59 | Policing
in the UK and beyond in October 2010, is still, after the collapse of his
police career, actively seeking to operate as a private consultant. He
appears to be based in the US, although this is not certain.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-kennedy/44/853/198
An extract from this profile is listed here....
"I have many years experience in covert operations and deployments,
intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination, statement taking,
investigations and case preparation, evidential court apperances,
surveillance and counter-surveillance skills and the use of technical
covert, recording equipment.
I have lectured for law enforcement agencies and services regarding
infiltration tactics and covert deployments and have lectured for the
private sector regarding risk management, the threat from extremist and
protest groups and creating preventative protocols.
My exeperience is drawn from 20 years as a British Police officer, the
last ten of which were deployed as a covert operative working within
extreme left political and animal rights groups throughout the UK, Europe
and the US providing exacting intelligence upon which risk and threat
assessment analysis could be made.
That knowledge and experience is now drawn upon to provide expert
consultation to the public / private sectors to provide investigative
services, deliver informative lectures and training, provide risk and
threat assessments to companies, corporations and their staff from the
threat of direct action in all its forms. It is my intention to provide a
enhance a better understanding of protest, the reasons why protest takes
place and the subsequent appropriate management of protest and
to assist in employing the appropriate pre-emptive policing and security
considerations to mass mobilisations, protest and direct action as well as
real time analysis and responces and to provide post event debriefing to
staff effected by direct action."
The profile indicates Kennedy is based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The profile also reveals that in January 2010, shortly before leaving the
police, he set up a company called "Stanage Consulting".
Stanage Consulting are registered at
SUITE 2029
6 SLINGTON HOUSE
RANKINE ROAD
BASINGSTOKE
ENGLAND
RG24 8PH
This address is simply a forwarding service -see
http://www.my-uk-mail.co.uk/frequentlyaskedquestions.htm
This forwarding service also hosted another company set up by Kennedy
called "Tokra", linked to "Global Open", which has since been dissolved -
for background on this see
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471916.html?c=on#c277723
The other company listed by Kennedy on his LinkedIn profile is US- based
"risk managers" Densus Group, for whom, since March 2012, he has acted as
a consultant - see http://www.densusgroup.com
To quote from the LinkedIn page again - "The Densus Group provides a range
of specialty consultancy and training, primarily on behalf of government
institutions and private firms in respect of risk analysis and threat
assessment from protest groups and domestic extremism."
The Densus Group was very interested in the policing of the Pittsburgh G20
summit protests (see
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/09/21/daily42.html?page=all)
and is generally trying to sell its services to corporate clients
concerned with combatting the US Occupy movement and similar groups (see
http://darwinbondgraham.wordpress.com/tag/densus-group/)
Thus, it seems that Kennedy is attempting to establish himself as a
private consultant for corporate agencies, presumably especially in the
US, where he seems to be based (despite a UK-based forwarding business
address). Activists in the US (and elsewhere) should be aware of this.
Gebal
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He tried to infiltrate AR
01.06.2012 15:59
AR girl
Excellent work! Gebal --- a couple of queries?
02.06.2012 19:45
I notice that Kennedy implies that he infiltrated groups in the US whilst he was a serving cop.
Is this just more lies or does anyone know of anything about historic involvement in the US. As far as I'm aware he operated in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Iceland and Denmark and definitely also attended meetings and gatherings in Poland, Italy and Spain but not as far as I know in the US?
I'm aware he claimed to visit his brother in the US at times, but I cannot recall any group surfacing who mentioned his involvement.
Either way can I suggest that this gets re-reposted with some of the pictures (both pre and post out) on a variety of friendly US sites (such as the Indys?).
It would be useful to know what the fucker got up to back then.
And it's essential we give our US friends the heads up on where he appears to be now.
Shevek of ABC Annares
Extremist.
03.06.2012 12:42
He's the fucking extremist working for extremist fundamentalist neo-liberal Capitalists.
Fuck him and his ilk
Maydaft
Definitely worked in the USA
06.06.2012 17:37
Also, the listing of his known movements put together by those who worked with him says he was in New York in January 2008
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Mark_Kennedy:_A_chronology_of_his_activities
Sinking like a Stone
Kennedy's great CV
13.06.2012 09:12
"Strategic Event Planning – Our staff have extensive experience of planning and operations at large scale events including G8 conferences..."
from:
http://www.densusgroup.com/crowd-management.html
See also the photo there of Ungdomshuset, where Kennedy spied on activists in Copenhagen for the first time, before returning again to spy in Copenhagen again at COP 15 in 2009.
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