Terry retired from the RCMP in 2006 after 25 years of decorated service. Terry’s investigative and team related skills are unparalleled.  Terry has been the lead investigator and/or manager involved in the following investigations and training:

Federal Narcotic Investigations
Undercover Investigations and Scenarios
Undercover Storefront Operation
Homicide Investigations
Sexual Assaults
Proceeds of Crime Investigations
International Money Laundering Investigations
Wire Tap Affiant Experience
Site Security Breaches
Authored Restraint and Asset Forfeiture Applications
Tax Evasion Investigations
Emergency Response Team Member
Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash Investigations
Advanced Surveillance Techniques
Interview Skills

Terry’s diverse and unique skills and experiences as they relate to proceeds of crime, particularly from investigating organized criminal activity, as well as asset location and recovery, are invaluable to the LGIG team.   Terry has worked in joint operations with Canada Revenue Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration, and a variety of police departments within and outside the RCMP.

Ivan is a Marine Investigation expert with over 33 years of combined policing experience with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the New Westminster Police Service. Ivan started his career in 1975 as one of the first Asian officers in the RCMP, and quickly excelled in undercover work in drug investigations from street level trafficking to international importation investigations.

Ivan has supervised a variety of sections in the Police Service including Major Crimes, Drug Investigations, Special Operations Unit, Human Resources and the Marine Unit. Ivan was also seconded to the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit where he specialized in Asian Organized Crime and became a court recognized expert in Asian Gang culture involving a variety of crimes such as homicide, drug trafficking, human trafficking and extortion.

During the last 5 years of his policing career, Ivan specialized in marine related crimes pertaining to boat thefts and insurance fraud schemes related to personal marine property. Ivan belongs to the International Association of Marine Investigators and is on the executive board and the treasurer for the Canadian chapter of the organization.

Lorna Fadden, Ph.D. is a forensic linguist who consults in cases where language is evidence. She performs forensic linguistic analysis on documents of questionable authorship, including threats and other anonymous communications for purposes of attribution or sociolinguistic profiling. She also examines spoken or written discourse to clarify intention and meaning, assess competence, and resolve ambiguities.  

In 2008, she completed her doctorate in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Her dissertation research on the language of police interviewing focused on discourse and speech properties. She conducts ongoing research on the discourse of police interviews, particularly addressing issues of suspects' competence as well as suspects' and investigators' discourse strategies. Fadden's research also focuses on the linguistic differences between Native and non-Native citizens in their interactions with police.

A current member of the International Association of Forensic Linguistics, and the International Language and Law Association, Dr. Fadden publishes and presents her work nationally and internationally.

Since 2001, she has taught linguistics at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in the areas of sociolinguistics, syntax, and forensics.

Prior to her work in forensic linguistics, Fadden spent several years in the high tech industry where she provided linguistic expertise in artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Doug has had a very successful 30 year career with the Vancouver Police Department. Graduating from the Justice Institute in 1980 he has worked in the Operations Division all over the City of Vancouver. In 1985, Doug joined the Emergency Response Team as a Constable, was promoted to Corporal, and left as a Team Leader and Sergeant in 1998. In his time with the ERT Doug was a leader through hundreds of situations requiring tactical solutions to extremely volatile situations.

Doug continued to lead successful investigative units as a Supervisor and a Manager with the Vancouver Police Department. These included Surveillance units, Technical Services unit (covert installations and wire taps) Property crime teams, Anti-fencing unit and other specialized investigative groups. Many of these operations focused on anti-counterfeiting, property crime, serial robbery, kidnappings, and home invasions.

Doug is recognized by the International Association of Property Crime Investigators as an expert in the Pawn Industry and in Asset Recovery, and is one of Canada’s leading experts in the fields of Intellectual Property Crime, Counterfeit Investigations and brand protection. He has worked closely with a diversity of businesses to protect their brands, and has led numerous counterfeit investigations which have resulted in successful criminal and civil processes.

Intellectual Property Crime is big business in the 21st century. The theft of Trade Marks or Copyright can ruin large or small business. In this regard, Doug is frequently called upon to lecture and train both the police and private industry, locally and internationally, on the topic of intellectual property crime and its consequences to private industry, the general public, and the economy at large. In the lead up to the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Doug represented the VPD on the VANOC Anti-Counterfeiting Committee.

Doug retired from the VPD as a Staff Sergeant in 2009.

Ken Green completed 32 years of highly decorated service with the RCMP in 2006. He had, at the time of his retirement, been a member of the Senior Management Team in "E" Division (British Columbia), achieving the rank of Superintendent. His command experience is considerable, developed in various locations throughout Western Canada, as well as RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa. He had been responsible for programs which include National Security, Emergency Preparedness, Business Continuity, Emergency Response and 2010 Olympic Security.

Following his policing career, he enjoyed three rewarding years as the Senior Manager, TELUS Emergency Response Team. He was able to apply his deep experience in training & development, disaster planning and emergency preparedness to the benefit of this communications giant. In addition to his operational contributions in these areas, Ken will be called upon to work with LGIG principals in Strategic Planning and Program Development.

Ken is a former voting member of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police. As such, he maintains a significant presence within the police community to the advantage of LGIG and our clients. In addition, his standing and reputation within the corporate community bodes well for LGIG's market position moving forward. We are very pleased to have Ken Green on board with Lions Gate Investigations Group.

Robert Hare is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, where he has taught and conducted research for some 35 years, and President of Darkstone Research Group Ltd., a forensic research and consulting firm.  Dr. Hare has devoted most of his academic career to the investigation of psychopathy - its nature, assessment, and implications for mental health and criminal justice.

He is the author of several books, including Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, and more than one hundred scientific articles on psychopathy. He is the developer of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and a co-author of its derivatives, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version, the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, the Antisocial Process Screening Device, and the P-Scan (for use in law enforcement).  He consults with law enforcement, including the FBI and the RCMP, sits on the Research Advisory Board of the new FBI Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC), and is a member of the FBI Serial Murder Working Group. He was also a member of the Advisory Panel established by Her Majesty’s Prison Service to develop new programs for the treatment of psychopathic offenders.  His current research on psychopathy includes assessment issues, developmental factors, neurobiological correlates, risk for recidivism and violence, and the development (with S. Wong) of new treatment and management strategies for psychopathic offenders (Guidelines for a Psychopathy Treatment Program).

He and Paul Babiak have extended the theory and research on psychopathy to the business and corporate world, with the development of the B-Scan-360, a 360º instrument used to screen for psychopathic traits and behaviors, and a book, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work. He lectures widely on psychopathy and on the use and misuse of the PCL-R in the mental health and criminal justice systems. Among his most recent awards are the Silver Medal of the Queen Sophia Center in Spain; the Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Applications of Psychology; the American Academy of Forensic Psychology Award for Distinguished Applications to the Field of Forensic Psychology; the Isaac Ray Award presented by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law for Outstanding Contributions to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychiatric Jurisprudence; the B. Jaye Anno Award for Excellence in Communication, presented by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. He is an Affiliate Member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship.

Karey Henschel has spent the last fourteen years as a sworn member of a municipal policing agency. During her career, she was assigned to the Investigative Services Division as the Strategic Intelligence Analyst with the Organized Crime and Terrorism portfolio. This portfolio included Traditional, Asian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, First Nations, Street Gang and Outlaw Motorcycle criminal organizations. In this position, Karey was involved in homicide, arson, fraud, firearms, smuggling, extortion, and conspiracy investigations.

Karey holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from McMaster University and has received extensive training in Advanced Intelligence Analysis (C.P.C.), Geographic Profiling Analysis (O.P.P.) and as an Intelligence Officer (O.P.C.). She is experienced and adept at link, time series, commodity flow, toll & pattern, net worth and financial record analysis.

As an Intelligence Analyst, Karey has worked closely with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (C.S.I.S.), the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada (C.I.S.C.) and the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Karey has contributed to the Criminal Intelligence Service of Ontario (C.I.S.O.) and has been involved in a working group assigned to identify future intelligence priorities at the provincial level.

Taras Hryb is a licensed Security Consultant and Private Investigator for Hemispheres Security Investigations Corporation.

He is internationally accredited as a Physical Security Professional (PSP) by ASIS International, is a lifetime member of the Canadian Identification Society, was Forensic Evidence Specialist with the Vancouver Police for approximately 20 yrs and held the rank of Sergeant.  His expert opinion pertaining to forensic physical evidence has been accepted in Family, Provincial and Supreme Courts of BC.

Taras’ security consulting focus is Threat and Vulnerability Analysis for physical sites such as facilities, businesses and residences.  This analysis forms the foundation upon which effective security is built.  The process includes characterizing the current state of your security environment, identifying the capabilities of the threats that you or your business face, assessing the risk they pose and defining effective security improvements to either deter or overcome them.  Taras also project manages the implementation and installation of security upgrades for his Clients.  His security experience includes government critical infrastructure sites, industrial and biochemical facilities, and executive residences.

Taras has extensive police experience investigating break-ins, robberies, home invasions, workplace theft and violence, all manner of serious assaults and homicides.  His private investigation services include forensic investigation for physical evidence such as fingerprints and DNA at incident scenes as well as forensic photography.  He has audited forensic fingerprint identifications, investigated internal thefts of high value physical and intellectual assets, reconstructed incidents and taken forensic photographs of client injuries for legal proceedings.

Membership & Accreditation

• Licensed Security Consultant and Private Investigator in BC

• Member of ASIS International and current Education Chair for Chapter 190, Canada Pacific Region

• Certified as a Physical Security Professional (PSP) by ASIS International

• Member of Private Investigators Association of BC and current President of the Association

• Lifetime member of the Canadian Identification Society

• Past Member of the Professional Photographers of BC and Canada

Kris Illingsworth has 25 years experience in law enforcement including 20 years investigating and analysing major crime cases.  Kris retired as a Detective Sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force having acquired extensive experience and specialist skills through investigation and analysis of over one thousand violent crime and threatening communication cases including two high profile, lengthy and complex serial murder investigations: the North Shore Murders and the Backpacker Murders.

Kris is highly experienced at working with crime investigators, forensic investigators, behavioural profilers, geographic profilers, and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists to solve crimes.  Kris has been one of only a few Australian police officers to be trained and internationally qualified in Criminal Investigative Analysis, popularly known as Criminal Profiling.  

Through the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship, Kris worked in and trained with the FBI Behaviour Analysis Units at Quantico; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Behavioural Sciences Group; Ontario Provincial Police Behavioural Sciences Section; Florida Department of Law Enforcement; California Bureau of Investigation; and Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence.   Kris also conducted research on British profiling methods at the National Crime Faculty (now Centrex) in Great Britain where she worked on cases with British profilers.  She is the only Australian Detective to undertake the FBI's formal threat assessment program through the FBI Forensic Linguistics Workshop for Law Enforcement Practitioners and is also one of few Australian police to have been formally trained in US Cold Case review methods.
   
Kris is a Full Fellow of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship, and a member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, the  International Association of Forensic Linguists, and Australia & New Zealand Forensic Science Society.

Mike Littlejohn graduated in 1975 with a B.A. degree in History and Psychology from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B.    Mike spent 25 years with the RCMP as an operational police officer in a number of postings with extensive experience in both patrol and plainclothes duties, working his way through the ranks from Constable to Sergeant.  In 1999, he retired from the RCMP and joined the independent provincial Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia (OCABC) in a variety of roles including Inspector, Team Leader of the investigative Quick Response Team, and Team Leader of the Tactical Surveillance Unit.

Mike is a recognized expert in drug enforcement, undercover operations, source development and handling, surveillance, and Organized Crime investigations.  He is an Accepted Expert Witness at the Provincial and Supreme Court levels in marijuana, cocaine, & heroin - their use, terminology, packaging, prices, and trafficking methods.

He has been a trainer/consultant at the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Police Academy in the fields of drug enforcement, undercover techniques, surveillance, informant development/handling, and Organized Crime.  He has also been involved in the development of the Municipal Police Undercover Program in both the training and operational fields, having acted as a Syndicate Leader on both the Level I and Level II training courses and as an undercover operator/cover person on a number of Major and/or Organized Crime investigations.

Dr. Matt Logan completed a Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia with a focus on Crisis (Hostage) Negotiation and Major Criminal Conflict Management. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 28 years serving in five communities within British Columbia and a tour of duty in Ottawa and at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia. Matt was working as a Psychologist with Correctional Services Canada (CSC) from May, 1999 to November, 2001 where he did Psychological Risk Assessments for the National Parole Board and worked in therapy with predatory sex offenders. He is currently working as a consultant and has joined Dr. Robert Hare in forming HALO – Forensic Behavioral Specialists.

As the first Operational Psychologist in Major Crime, S/Sgt (ret.) Logan has been involved as a consultant to Serious Crime Sections, Undercover Unit, Interview Team, Child Exploitation, and Crisis Negotiation Teams.  Psychological Risk and Threat Assessments are provided on suspects in serious crime investigations and Expert Evidence is given in Court on violent and deviant sexual behaviour.  An FBI trained hostage negotiator, Dr. Logan is a conference speaker and facilitator specializing in Conflict and Crisis Management, Psychopathy, Risk for Violence, Sexual Predators, and Trauma.

Barry spent eleven years with the RCMP at various postings in “E” Division, British Columbia. During this time he was recognized as being very forward thinking in his concepts and in the performance of his duties, primarily Highway Patrol and Advanced Accident Investigation. It was during this time he developed the original concept and pilot of what has now become known as “the Safe Grad Program”. Leaving the RCMP, Barry entered the private sector as the owner of a highly technical oriented business, and was recognized as a leader in the field. This has provided him with a unique perspective into the challenges of modern business, and the threats they are subject to.

With 19 years experience in the Private Investigation field, Barry has a sound understanding of what it takes to provide the client with an honest and complete enquiry. His preferred areas of operation are rural and small town environments. His primary tasks deal with surveillance related to fraudulent injuries but has performed several theft investigations as well issues dealing with the Native School Abuses in Central BC. He has instructed in Electronic Tracking and is certified in the use of the Dynateck Electronic Tracking System. With 9 years of experience as a Security Consultant operating in the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures field (sweeping for covert electronic attacks), Barry has developed a reputation for complete and efficient inspections. He is a graduate of the REI Advanced TSCM Coarse in Tennessee. The instruments used in his testing are recognized as state-of-the-art.

Ms. McDowell is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), all in good standing. She had a twenty-five year career with a major international airline, the last fifteen of which was in the Internal Audit department. From her second field audit Ms. McDowell demonstrated an aptitude for identifying and investigating fraud and was used almost exclusively as a forensic auditor for her last ten years at the airline.

After taking early retirement and moving to the west coast, Ms. McDowell spent two years as Senior Manager Internal Audit for a BC based international currency exchange business. She decided to leave after being reminded how much she enjoyed the intellectual exercise of forensic work. For the last year and a half Ms. McDowell has worked as an independent forensic auditor/accountant.

Ms. McDowell has identified and investigated fraud in more than a dozen different countries and while much of it has been employee white collar crime, she has also worked on fraud cases involving agents, customers, suppliers and in one case, construction kickbacks. She has experience in conducting interviews and with her knowledge of risk management and internal controls, has a perfect cover to come into an organization where there are concerns but no hard evidence, ostensibly to conduct a normal internal audit.

Ms. McDowell has been on the board of a local chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and is currently serving on the board of the Vancouver Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Rod Megill is a Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant with 18 years employment history with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Rod completed foreign-based work assignments throughout the Middle East and Asia during his tenure with Citizenship and Immigration Canada as an Enforcement and Visa Officer. In 2001, Rod left Citizenship and Immigration Canada to join Desjardins Bank’s Immigrant Investor Program as its Middle East Marketing Manager based in Dubai, UAE. Rod brings an extensive knowledge of the Canadian Immigration system as well as an extensive work history and knowledge of many Middle East and Asia countries allowing LGIG to extend its professional services to clients with immigration-related or internationally-based investigation issues.

Rod earned a Bachelor of Arts in Law from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Concordia University in Montreal and a Masters Degree from the Lundquist School of Business at the University of Oregon before joining Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Brad Moore has been a police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police for the past 22 years. He spent 10 years in the OPP Behavioural Sciences Section as a geographic profiler and manager of the OPP Geographic Profiling Unit.  He has prepared geographic profiles and conducted geographic analyses for police departments in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. He regularly lectures at police departments and educational institutions in North America and Europe.

During the course of his policing career, Brad has worked general duties at Sebringville Detachment in southwestern Ontario, as a ViCLAS analyst, as manager of the Systems Operations and Technical Support Unit, Information and Technology Services Section, and as team leader of Ontario’s Provincial ViCLAS Centre. Brad is currently one of only nine qualified geographic profilers in the world.

In 2006, Rick retired as a senior executive from the investment management industry after a 22 year career with the institutional investment management divisions of the Royal Bank of Canada and UBS AG, one of Europe’s largest banks.

With a degree in finance and economics from the University of Alberta, he was responsible for overseeing the portfolios of government, corporate and union pension plan clients across western Canada. The combined market value of these portfolios exceeded $2 billion.

Rick’s responsibilities included working with clients and their consultants in the development and maintenance of investment strategies and policies; introducing clients and consultants to new leading edge investment strategies; overall reporting and regular meetings with clients’ investment committees; and the marketing of investment services to major pension plan and endowment sponsors across western Canada.

Keith Perrin is the owner of TCS Forensics Ltd. TCS Forensics Ltd. are experts in digital evidence and computer security with professional certification in the most recognized forensic and security designations. Since 2001, TCS Forensics Ltd. has been at the forefront of the examination of computers and network security and is the only lab in Western Canada and one of the few in Canada which is certified in Forensics, with EnCase and FTK designations, as well as Network Security, with the CISSP designation. The specialists at TCS Forensics Ltd. adhere to the most stringent forensic processes and are available 24/7 for incident response and triage. Cellular phones, PDA’s, Blackberry’s as well as memory cards and other types of digital media are also able to be processed and forensically analyzed for evidence.

The Forensic Examiners are cross trained in both Forensics and Network security which uniquely positions them to be able to provide both a network audit as well as forensically analyze on any security breaches that may have occurred from unwanted external threats as well as internal violations. TCS Forensics Ltd. understands the value of digital information in today’s market and has worked with all clients from individuals to multi-national corporations in both the public and private sector to address their digital forensic and network security needs. TCS Forensic Ltd. also works closely with the legal community giving regular educational presentations to law firms and as a result understands the unique and often complex nature of eDisclosure and eDiscovery.

Ian Pope has over 35 years of policing experience throughout North America and Europe and is an expert in complex investigations and major case management.

Ian spent ten years as a police officer in the UK before emigrating to Vancouver, where he spent his first five years in the private investigation industry. For three of those five years Ian owned and ran a private investigation company, White Rose Investigations, servicing the needs of some of Vancouvers major law firms in civil litigation.

Ian joined the New Westminster Police Service and during his service has been the lead investigator in Homicides, Joint Forces Operations, Proceeds of Crime, Money Laundering and Organized Crime investigations. As a lead investigator Ian investigated, planned and directed operations. Ian has coordinated multi-agency investigations locally, provincially, nationally and internationally. Ian has been involved in numerous police undercover operations investigating drugs, homicides and organized crime. Ian is an excellent interviewer and trained as a Statement Analyst. Ian is trained in surveillance and has qualified as a drug expert witness in the Supreme Court of BC.

For the last seven years of his police service Ian was seconded to the former Organized Crime Agency now known as the Combined Special Enforcement Unit, investigating Organized Crime. During that time he has worked with and led investigators in Major investigations into Organized Crime which included, Contract Killings, Drugs, Firearms Trafficking, Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime.
  

Jim Van Allen is President of Behavioural Science Solutions Group Inc., a private practice assisting investigators and others to find and pursue the truth.  He responds to a broad range of requests for Behavioural Science support in a variety of investigations. He also provides threat assessments and risk management strategies for private sector clients.

Jim is a Certified Criminal Profiler with significant public sector experience in assisting high profile investigations. He has internationally renowned expertise in crime scene analysis, and verifying truthfulness in written, audio or video recorded statements. His reviews of serious investigations have helped to identify criminals, their motives, and the significance of critical pieces of evidence. His extensive investigative background assists him to bridge the gap between what Investigators need and successfully closing a case.

Jim has assisted to determine the manner of death in many confusing death investigations that were open to diverse interpretation. He has considerable expertise in analyzing anonymous threats and cyber-communications. He is very experienced in identifying falsely alleged crimes and hoax events.
Jim is a highly experienced interviewer and has successfully prepared personality based interview strategies that have assisted to obtain admissions and confessions in serious and problematic investigations.

Jim has lectured across Canada, at colleges and Universities, and in The Netherlands and Belgium about violent crimes, crime dynamics and threat assessment. He has testified as an expert witness at various levels of the Ontario Court of Justice, and Coroners Inquests.

Following a long and storied career in a broad range of senior law enforcement roles, more recently as RCMP Director, Behavioural Sciences for the Criminal Profiling, Geographic Profiling, Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) , National Sex Offender Registry and Truth Verification programs (Polygraph & Statement Analysis), Glenn is now lending his unique skills and talents to Lions Gate Investigations Group.

The majority of Glenn’s experience over the past 35 years has been in the area of investigating crimes of interpersonal violence. He has been involved either as an investigator or profiler in hundreds of major cases including homicides, sexual assaults, abductions (adults and children), armed robberies, arsons as well as other crimes of interpersonal violence.

In 1999 Glenn was one of two Canadian Profilers invited to an FBI symposium on school shootings where he had an opportunity to participate in the analysis of 18 school shooting incidents including Columbine. He is a co-author of a Threat Assessment Training Guide that is used in training school administrators, counsellors, psychologists and police officers, and is widely viewed as the best training available in this regard.

Glenn has been a regular lecturer at the Canadian Police College and has also guest lectured or presented at the Atlantic Police College, Toronto Police Service College, the Ontario Police College and numerous conferences in Canada, the United States and abroad.