David McGowan is a former Victorian Police officer with 21 years experience (1979 – 2000) which included a stint in Carlton CIB as a detective cutting his teeth on house burgs, s3x offences and fraud – one of the most notable cases was the Foodplus b0mbing where a competitor literally tried to blow up the opposition. After the CIB, in 1988 David was invited into the Armed Robbery Squad, working on some really high profile cases like recapturing a prison escapee and convicted bank robber. During these years it also included the tragedy of the Walsh Street police murd3rs and the capture and then subsequent loss of one of the most prolific bank robbers of modern era (19 banks). (He got in trouble for the latter but they did recapture him). Before his police career ended, he was promoted to Richmond station as a Sergeant -and then to Malvern CIB as a Detective Sergeant until leaving the force in 2000 to work for a bank managing the Group Investigations function - responsible for investigating employee corruption across 31 countries –and established investigations teams in NZ, PNG, Fiji, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore.  Stating that it had more general crime there than he dealt with in Victoria Police – murd3rs, drug trafficking, slav3ry, gun running, theft, corruption, fraud etc…

In 2020 David joined the Police Veterans as CEO and has spent last 12 months developing the organisation looking after all police veterans and recognises the sacrifices and PTSD trauma many members have experienced. It is a not-for-profit and although is Victorian based there is currently an unfulfilled demand for this service nationally.

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