For 30 years Alan Smith, now head of investigations at COMET, served in the police before turning his attention to industrial investigations.  

Smith sat down with Energy Voice Aberdeen features lead, Ryan Duff, to discuss his career in the police, his shift to the private sector and how his approach to investigations had to change when he left law enforcement.  

“I knew instinctively that when my police career came to an end that I was going to move into the world of industry investigations,” said Smith. 

The self-proclaimed “career investigator” joined what was then called Grampian Police, where he became a detective. Investigating incidents in the North Sea fell under his remit while in the police, something that set him up for a life in industrial investigations. 

Smith’s career post-police work has taken him to various places around the globe to investigate a range of incidents. Listen to Alan Smith’s full conversation with Energy Voice.