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Colin King

Colin served as an army bomb disposal officer, instructor, and intelligence analyst, with numerous operational tours. Now the technical director of Fenix Insight Ltd, his work includes the disassembly and

Al Prescott

Al was introduced to systematic search when serving as a High-Risk Search Adviser in the Royal Engineers; subsequently serving as an instructor in a UK Police National Search Centre training

David Hewitson

Before joining the mine action sector, David served in Royal Navy surface ships and submarines. Working in mine action for over 30 years he conducted practical clearance and established and

Mike Groves

Mike was co-founder of the IEDD Wing of the RNZAOC School 1973, founding CO of 11 EOD Bn 1981, a Senior Research Lecturer and Registrar of Cranfield University 1984 educating

Garth Whitty

Garth has international experience in a range of munition clearance and search disciplines including CMD, IEDD, EOC, BAC, CWD, mine clearance, search, blast mitigation and munition casualty recovery. He served

Friends of Ukraine EOD

Based in Guernsey, Friends of Ukraine EOD is a registered charity, founded by IMCSE members Alfords and PCM, for like-minded people to join together to assist the ERW risk mitigation (more…)

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Dr. Sidney Alford OBE, IMCSE…RIP

Sidney Christopher Alford (1935-2021) RIP Sidney Alford who has died aged 86 was an idiosyncratic gentleman scientist in the long tradition of lone British inventors, who gained a worldwide reputation (more…)

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President’s End Of Year Message

Dear IMCSE Colleagues, 2020 has been a year that none of us expected to experience bringing personal tragedy and hardship and collective disruption on an unimaginable scale. Nevertheless IMCSE Members (more…)

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