About the Author

Ben Maure is a serving Peace Officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He has over 30 years of police experience, most of which has been spent in British Columbia, Canada. Ben’s career within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been diverse. He started as a uniformed police officer in Surrey, British Columbia, and eventually made his way to Ottawa as an Officer-in-Charge within a federal policing unit. In 1999, Ben completed a one-year secondment tour of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Between 2009 and 2013, Ben acted as a Police Liaison Officer (First Secretary) at the Embassy of Canada in the Dominican Republic. He speaks five languages, and has traveled to more than 26 countries around the world.

Ben holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and a Master of Arts degree in Social Justice from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). His interests are international policing and public safety. Ben is also a recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross (M.S.C.). This is his first book.