Squadron Leader Mark (Mo) Pearce
OC Training and Plans, Defence Animal Training Regiment
Squadron Leader Pearce is an RAF Provost Officer who has served since 1981. He was educated in Barnsley, Yorkshire and joined the RAF at the age of 17.
Following basic training at the RAF Police School Newton, plus completing a Police Dog Handlers Course, he spent his formative years patrolling airfields in the UK and Germany. A promotion to Corporal saw him became an instructor at the Dog Training Squadron, instructing Service Police, HM Customs & Excise, Gibraltar Customs and Ecuador Police in the art of specialist search dog handling.
Squadron Leader Pearce then undertook various roles, including at the Defence Animal Centre. Tours of the Falklands, Cyprus, Germany, Bosnia and Afghanistan followed with a mix of general police duties, Air Transport Security, Intelligence and specialist Arms Explosive Search Dogs. Back in the UK, he was promoted to Squadron Leader and his current role at the Defence Animal Training Regiment in Melton Mowbray.
Squadron Leader Pearce has been married to Sheila for 31 years and they have three grown-up children. His interests include playing the guitar, music, motorcycling and cycling, although he is not enjoying any of these interests nearly as often as he would like to at the moment!
