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Tripoli as the war in Libya unfolded. Rapidly becoming the ‘go to’ female security expert, and providing crisis management consultancy expertise for security companies such as Control Risks, she kept her specialist skills up to date by providing close protection for high-profile families.
In 2011, she set up her own company, RPS Partnership, which provides security risk management training and advice to commercial organisations as well as journalists and international and national NGOs deploying staff to conflict-affected states around the world. She went to Syria in 2013 with an all-female media crew from National Public Radio and worked as their security and safety advisor/medic in the war-torn Idlib province. Caroline has worked extensively with investigative journalists both in the UK and overseas, advising them on how to stay safe while covering high-risk stories. She has also run workshops all over the world on how to work safely as a journalist on anticorruption stories and was a guest speaker at the OCCRP (investigative journalism) conference in Brazil.
She retrained as a modern languages secondary school teacher and used her PGCE qualification to develop her specialist two-week ‘train the trainer’ programmes, where she has helped build local teams of local trainers in countries as varied as Brazil, Iraq, Syria and Libya. Somehow, she still finds time to volunteer with her local ambulance service as a community first responder and as a special constable with her regional constabulary; giving back to the community where she has settled.
There can be few Sandhurst graduates who have blazed so many trails and packed so many varied experiences into one lifetime.
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