John Bowman is our Director of Operations and Steve Ashman is a Strategic Law Enforcement Consultant.
They are both representing Greylist Trace at the Offshore Alert Conference in London, 2nd and 3rd December 2024.
John Bowman
John Bowman has led the 5 Stones Intelligence London office since 2019, serving as the Director of Operations for the United Kingdom and Europe. He provides oversight and leadership for all 5 Stones Intelligence services and products to clients.
Since 2022, he has fulfilled a similar role for GreyList Trace Limited. As a specialist law enforcement consultant, he is leading the expansion of GLT into the public / law enforcement sector.
John is a career law enforcement and intelligence professional with 32 years’ experience serving in the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) intelligence and operations directorate, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the National Crime Squad and the London Metropolitan Police Service. He previously served as an International Liaison Officer to the Eastern Caribbean and was recognised and awarded by the UK and US for his successful leadership in the management of International operations. He also served as the NCA International HUMINT Source Authorising officer, providing strategic guidance and management of HUMINT Source handlers globally.
During his career, he has served as the SOCA/NCA International HUMINT Source Controller with responsibility for tactical guidance and management of Source handlers posted throughout the world. He managed HUMINT staff deployments into hostile environments in South America with great success. He developed and implemented a HUMINT Source sharing relationship with International partners such as DEA, FBI, HSI, Dutch Law Enforcement, the intelligence community and foreign law enforcement partners.
John served as an intelligence manager for the National Crime Squad and SOCA, devising and implementing the confidential HUMINT unit concept, which was adopted as a national best practice methodology for the NCA. He deployed as the intelligence manager on numerous successful kidnap investigations, managing the deployment of covert intelligence / evidence gathering techniques, resulting in extraordinary levels of success.
He previously served as Detective Inspector on the UK Metropolitan Police Murder Command as a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), while investigating numerous murders within London for which he received commendations for leadership and commitment to duty.
He has an extraordinary level of experience and success which has qualified him as a renowned Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding HUMINT intelligence operations and global investigations.
Steve Ashman
Steve Ashman is a retired Chief Constable. He began his policing career in London in 1987 and worked in some of the most challenging areas in UK policing in a career spanning 30 years and three different forces.
He spent over 8 years as a chief officer culminating in his appointment as Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, the 6th largest force in England and Wales.
He led one of the largest manhunts in UK policing history and successfully led the prosecution of several hundred offenders for sexual exploitation of vulnerable women and girls in the largest ever operation of its kind.
He has worked extensively overseas as a serving officer and as a consultant in retirement in the Caribbean, Middle East, Africa and Europe.
He owns a private company delivering training and assessment services to UK police forces and is a lay member of the Royal College of Surgeons’ invited review team.