Clearwater Training Team Overview 

The Clearwater Professional Specialist Training Team are highly experienced in the Close Protection field, all are qualified to deliver the highest standards of professional training to you. Since 2001 Clearwater has been at the forefront of Close Protection Training with an unparrelled reputation and we have now become the largest Close Protection Trainer in Europe. We have always employed first class instructors and some of our instructors include:

Henry Pattison MCMI AlfL

Henry is Clearwater Special Projects Ltd. Head of Training and Senior Operations Manager.

His experience is predominately Army based and has completed 24 years service as an Infantry Soldier.

His operational Close Protection experience is predominantly Military based, which consisted of operational tours of duty in Northern Ireland where he was responsible for the planning and conduct of Close Protection duties, and conducting intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance tasks (ISR) in order to assist the Northern Ireland Police and other security specialist units to carry out their duties in a safe working environment. 

He has also conducted the same duties in the following countries: Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Canada (as a training instructor) to name a few.

Henry has been employed full time by Clearwater since 2003 and he has worked on many diverse projects and was responsible for the production and management of the new SIA license course.

He is the driving force behind the development of other training courses such as advanced surveillance and Private Investigation. He is qualified to teach and he has an Advanced Award In Training And Presenting.

WOII JEZZ JAMES

Having served for 22 years as an Infantry Soldier, Jezz has had a very busy full service career in the military.

He has constantly been involved with Instruction at all levels of military training, both in peacetime and active service.

His Operational Close Protection experience is predominantly Military based, consisting of operational tours of duty in Northern Ireland, responsible for the planning and conduct of Close Protection duties in order to assist the Northern Ireland Police and other security specialist units to carry out their duties in a safe working environment.  Jezz has also conducted the same duties in the following countries: Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.  Whilst in Iraq he was also responsible for the collating and analysis of intelligence in order to conduct high profile protection tasks, with added responsibility of providing intelligence to other private security companies.

Jezz is a very experienced and adaptable Instructor in Military tactics and Operational skills and drills within the Close Protection sector. He has helped others to operate in places like Bosnia, Kosovo, and many other places of conflict in the world.

He also has a Cert Ed. from the University of Greenwich.

CAPTAIN (RET'D) TERRENCE C CARROLL

Terry’s background is Army based with 28 years exemplary service.

Terry’s career started with 23 Special Air Service before moving to regular service with the Parachute Regiment.

He is a veteran of 8 tours in Northern Ireland and also fought in the Falklands War. He has served throughout the World, including Belize, Oman, North America, Africa and the Far East. The majority of his early service was with 3 Para where he became Company Sergeant-Major of Patrol Company. He was also an instructor at the Regimental Depot, a Staff Instructor at the School of Infantry Battle School (Brecon), a Senior Staff Instructor (Sergeant-Major) in 10 Para and eventually Regimental Sergeant-Major of 15 Para.

He was Commissioned and led the famous Red Devils Freefall Team for over 6 years. He completed over 650 freefall descents and became a regular display jumper in addition to his command function. His dedication took him all over the World as commander of the team acting as an ambassador of the Parachute Regiment and British Army.

Since he retired from the British Army Terry has been involved with Clearwater right from the very outset and he has been a principle instructor for over 6 years; he now attends as a guest lecturer.

Alex is an experienced and effective security specialist with 22 year’s military service, 15 of which were with 22 Special Air Service Regiment.

His extensive protective security experience has made him an acknowledged subject matter expert and he is widely regarded as one of the most expert Personal Security Detail consultants in the specialist security field. During his SAS career Alex was the chief instructor of the Protective Security Cell (PSC) and constructed unit procedures for dealing with a wide variety of incidents, including all forms of terrorist attack. He was also responsible for researching, preparing and delivering training activities on all aspects of VIP protection.

He trained and deployed with Royalty & Diplomatic Protection Group of the Metropolitan Police, carrying out close-protection duties. Also with SO19, the Metropolitan Police specialist firearms team.

He initiated and developed counter-attack and counter-sniper team programmes, in Colombia, Hong Kong & Singapore and has carried out numerous liaison visits to USA including US Secret Service, FAA Sky Marshal organisations.

He has presented briefings up to and including Cabinet level in UK, and to Heads Of State internationally. On behalf of Her Majesty’s Government he has carried out staff audits, threat assessments and close protection training at various locations worldwide, including British embassies in El Salvador, Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Namibia and Algeria.

He has organised and supervised Close Protection teams in Algiers, and was Team Leader of a training team responsible for producing and conducting both VIP Protection & Command courses for the Singapore Police Force.

In October 2005 Alex became a welcome addition to the Clearwater Instructional team and brings with him a wealth of distinguished experience.

Simon has 27 years experience in the world of security and training, of which 22 years were served in the British Army in peace and at times of conflict.

For the last five years he has worked in the civilian sector, as a close protection operative and security trainer.

His Military service saw him involved in high risk search operations in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, New Zealand and Bosnia, with extensive training tours supporting UK and NATO troops. Since leaving the army he has been involved with close protection and security training, in UK, Iraq and Kuwait.

Simon has a huge amount of experience and knowledge of a wide variety of security disciplines.

He is a qualified teacher with a 7302 teaching qualification. He is also qualified as a conflict management instructor with 1884 & 1886 qualifications. He is also a qualified first aid instructor and assessor.