Mark Briskey
Head of School
Australian Graduate School of Policing
M.Soc.Sc - Criminology (CSU), MSA - Strategic Affairs (ANU), MA - Psychoanalytic Studies (Deakin), Grad Dip - Islamic Studies (UNE), B.Soc.Sc - Justice Studies (CSU)
Mark Briskey
Bio
Mark has worked in both state and Federal police services for over 20 years. Before commencing at Charles Sturt University, Mark Briskey was the Australian Federal Police Senior (AFP) Police Liaison Officer (SLO) at the Australian High Commission in Dhaka Bangladesh. In that role Mark undertook liaison duties to expedite major counter-terrorism, child sex, human trafficking and economic crime matters in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives. Mark also had responsibility for identifying and coordinating major law enforcement capacity building and training ventures in support of Australia and its regional law enforcement allies.
Mark also performed the role of AFP SLO in Indonesia during 2003 and 2004 and he was involved in the early planning of the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) as well as the Transnational Crime Coordination Centre (TNCC), both of which were major Australian Government initiatives aimed at forging closer links with Indonesia.
Mark also performed the duties of AFP Senior Liaison Officer in Pakistan for three years from 1998 and has visited that country nearly every year up to and including 2008 in the pursuit of major transnational crime investigations. Mark has also coordinated major trans-national crime investigations concerning Counter-Terrorism and Drug Trafficking with Law Enforcement partners from Asia, Europe and the US. Additionally Mark has travelled to and worked extensively with Law Enforcement in the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Nepal and India. Mark participated in and was a member of the South Asian Foreign Anti-Narcotic community (FANC) and attended major drug suppression policy meetings such as the Mini-Dublin group meetings at the invitation of DFAT. Mark has also presented to numerous foreign law enforcement audiences in Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan, including the International Chiefs of Police Conference in New Delhi, UNDCP, UNDP, FANC and a number of Australian joint and multi-agency meetings.Prior to this posting Mark had roles as the National Coordinator of Drug Investigations and National Coordinator of People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Investigations at AFP HQ. Mark was involved in frequent Interdepartmental Coordination and operational oversight meetings involving a number of Australian agencies.
Mark received the AFP Commissioners award for excellence in Overseas Policing in 2005 and received the Indonesian National Police Chiefs citation for his work when he was part of the first deployment of AFP personnel flown to Bali by the RAAF in response to the Bali Bombing atrocity.
Mark has delivered an ARC funded presentation to the Monash Asia Institute as well as the Asian Studies Association bi-annual conference held at Wollongong University where he chaired one of the seminars, and is currently completing a PhD at UNSW.
Teaching
- Grad Cert/ Dip/ Masters of Investigations Management
- Grad Cert/ Dip/ Masters of Criminal Intelligence
Research
- Transnational crime - human trafficking, international police co-operation mechanisms and counter terrorism.
- Extremism - secular and religious.
- South Asian studies.
