Solomon Caulker
OFFICIAL DESIGNATION: DIRECTOR, SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME COORDINATION (SOCC)
OTHER DESIGNATIONS: Executive Secretary, Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU), Chair, Integrated intelligence Group (IIG), Secretary, Strategic Situation Group (SSG).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: BA Hons (USL), MA Peace & Development Studies (Njala University), MA International Relations [Security] (University of Birmingham, UK) (Chevening Alumnus)
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- Basic Secret Intelligence Collection (Sierra Leone, 2004)
- Intelligence & Security Threat Assessment (Sierra Leone, 2006)
- National Security Exercise Writing (UK, 2005, 2006)
- Defence Resource Management (Sierra Leone, 2008)
- International Seminar on National Security (Israel, 2008)
- Strategic Planning & Policy Development (January 2012)
- Intelligence Cycle Management (February, 2013)
Solomon has served in the Office of National Security since 2004, first starting as a Desk Officer for Economic Security then Organised Crime in the Joint Assessment Team. He was appointed to head the newly created SOCC in 2006. He has contributed to the development of many policy papers and strategies and has been pivotal in the development of the now exemplary TOCU whose model is being replicated in other African countries.
Solomon was also one of two officers selected from Sierra Leone to benefit from the highly competitive Chevening Scholarship offered by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office for study in the UK for the 2013/14 academic year. He remains a senior and distinguished officer in the security sector of Sierra Leone.
