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member of many national forensic development groups including the
National DNA Operations Group and the National DNA Strategy Board. He
represented the UK on the INTERPOL DNA Monitoring Expert Group for more
than 2 years. More recently he was a member of the ACPO UK National
Forensic Programme Board delivering the Forensics 21 Programme to UK
Policing.

Derek has specialised and trained extensively in managing mass fatality
incidents. He was one of the founder members of the national UK Disaster
Victim Identification Team (UK DVI) and he has gained significant experience
as a DVI Commander for the UK over recent years with extensive experience
of working overseas in extremely challenging circumstances.

Derek was posted to Thailand for 16 months following the Indian Ocean
Tsunami of December 2004 which killed over 270,000 people where he held
the position of International IMC Commander. During this time he shared
responsibility for both the strategic management of this massive international
disaster response and the day to day management of both law enforcement
and forensic staff in total drawn from 31 different nations around the world.

This event is one of the largest DVI operations ever carried out for a natural
disaster and is the largest collaboration of international police resources ever
assembled. It produced many learning points for the management of future
disasters.

He was DVI Commander for the Egypt bombings in 2005, UK DVI Commander
for the Air France crash near Brazil in 2009, and engaged in post conflict work
in Libya in 2012

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing
Day Tsunami) occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre
off the west coast of northern Sumatra. It was an undersea megathrust
earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli
intensity up to IX in certain areas. The earthquake was caused by a rupture
along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate.
A series of large tsunami waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high were created by
the underwater seismic activity. Communities along the surrounding coasts of
the Indian Ocean were seriously affected, and the tsunamis killed an
estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh
reported the largest number of victims. The earthquake was one of the
deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. The direct results caused major
disruptions to living conditions and commerce, particularly in Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, India, and Thailand.

The earthquake was the third largest ever recorded and had the longest Page209
duration of faulting ever observed; between eight and ten minutes. It caused