Mark Cameron Training Ltd
Contact Us
You can contact us via the Contact Us form on our HOME PAGE or use either of the following options:
Phone - +44 (0) 7825 742938
Email - mark@mc-training.uk
About Us
We are a small but very successful training consultancy based in the north of England. You may look at us and think you need a larger company to provide your training needs in cybercrime and digital forensics. Rest assured - you don't!
We are well placed to deliver to your requirements and more importantly, to do so in a friendly, confident and passionate way so your staff learn and absorb our training. With years of experience between our trainers, we set out to provide that bespoke service to ensure your staff absorb and enjoy our training.
We have spent too long watching people make themselves look and sound too clever to be true and try to impress that on students - when the students want to enjoy their learning and take away useful content that they can apply to their jobs as investigators using plain and understandable terminology. We deal in practicalities - what our students actually need.
And we really want our students to enjoy being in a classroom with us. We seriously consider that having two trainers in the classroom at all times on our courses adds to the learning experience of the delegates who attend and we ensure that no-one is left behind at any time.
Our Trainers
We will bring on other subject experts as we need them for delivery and we have access to a number of suitably qualified and highly trusted trainers. Your course will not be trained by someone who can't adequately and professionally deliver our materials.
However meet our trainers below -
Mark Cameron
Managing Director & Trainer
Mark Cameron MSc is the owner of MC Training. He retired after 31 years as a police officer in a UK Police Force having spent in excess of 20 years as a detective. Since 1995, he has worked exclusively in the area of digital data which took him into the field of child exploitation and abuse, cybercrime, open source intelligence collection and online undercover work. He conducted many hundreds of examinations into all types of computer devices, most latterly dealing with the massive influx of mobile phones that are now part of almost every criminal enquiry.
Much of that work involved the investigation of paedophilia and the protection of children and he has given evidence at Magistrate & Crown courts throughout the country in cases involving the use of technology by criminals and the traces that are left by using the Internet.
He worked at the Centre for National High Tech Crime Training at Wyboston (UK) where he was responsible for writing and delivering many of the courses that are still being taught in the UK today in the areas of digital forensics, cybercrime, Internet investigation & open source investigation. Moving from there, he worked at the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in London – setting up their digital laboratory and being involved or advising in many high-profile paedophile investigations on a national & international scale.
Mark has worked for a number of clients and seeks to make use of many years of investigative experience in his specialised fields. He has written many courses for high profile clients including designing Interpol’s international victim identification course, Firebrand’s open source investigation advanced practitioner course and Charles Sturt University's Cybercrime and Evidence module for the Indian Police Service.
Outside of his ‘work skills’, Mark has been involved in a number of sports over many years – both playing, coaching and refereeing – but also in team management and child protection roles within them. He holds an MSc in Forensic Computing from the Royal Military College of Science & Cranfield University.
Ian Salmon
Associate Trainer & Consultant
Ian spent 30 years as a Warwickshire Police Officer. For the last 15 years of that service, he was a 'digital Forensic Investigator' and retired from the force in 2018. During his time within the DFU, Ian acquired, processed and analysed the data from both computers and mobile phones an =d was instrumental in setting up the Warwickshire unit as one of the most efficient 'small force' units in the U.K.
From 2009, he worked with one of the major mobile phone forensic software suppliers as a trainer, and in 2011 he began working with a specialised digital training provider where he assisted in creating and delivering a wide range of courses to the digital forensic and cybercrime community which are still trained today. He continues to work extensively in this field.
In 2020, he was awarded an MSc in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation by University College, Dublin.
Since retiring, Ian has continued to work for several clients, delivering digital forensic training and other cybercrime subjects. His calm and relaxed delivery style makes him ideal to deliver course materials for MCTraining and his knowledge in the area of digital forensics and open source evidence gathering will stand against most other trainers in this area.
His dream job would be as a professional golfer, but this is very much a dream!
Mark McCluskey
Associate Trainer & Consultant
Mark spent over 20 years as a police officer within Strathclyde Police before injury necessitated he retire. During his police career, Mark worked in several departments across several ranks including CID, training, public order, policy support, surveillance, undercover policing, quality assurance and as a uniformed supervisor. He has extensive experience in the investigation of serious crime and a varied career has seen him work throughout Scotland and during his service, graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a BSc (Hons) in Policing and Police Studies.
He was employed by Trading Standards Scotland as a Cybercrime Investigator and attended relevant courses at the Scottish Police College and the College of Policing, including successfully passing the Covert Internet Investigators Course. Mark established the Cyber Crime Team within his organisation and embarked upon a country wide upskilling of Trading Standards Officers and other law enforcement partners including the police and SSPCA in open source and undercover online investigation. His course was approved by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (Scotland).
Mark was appointed an Intra Muros Expert in Cybercrime Investigations to the European Union, designing bespoke e-learning packages to assist with the standardisation of online investigations throughout the community area. This role developed into Mark being deployed to Eastern Europe to assist accession states harmonise their online investigative practices in to match with those of current member nations.
He is also a Financial Investigator and his current role sees him investigate organised criminal groups, large scale fraud, intellectual property crime and consumer protection matters. He is a Cellebrite Certified Operator and Certified Physical Analyst and often requires to extract and analyse digital information from electronic devices.
Away from work, he likes going to the gym, is a fanatical Heart of Midlothian FC supporter and is currently learning to scuba dive.
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