Jersey officer gives FBI speech

Det Insp Faudemer has been training with the FBI for 10 weeks

A Jersey police officer has been chosen to give a speech at the FBI headquarters in Washington.

The head of Jersey's financial Crimes Unit Detective Inspector Barry Faudemer has been training with the FBI in Virginia for the past 10 weeks.

He has been chosen from 260 officers from around the world to give a speech at the graduation ceremony in front of the director of the FBI.

He said it was a "great honour" to have been chosen by his peers.

'Important event'

Det Insp Faudemer has been studying counter terrorism and the financing of terrorism, together with cyber crime, at the FBI National Academy, in Quantico, Virginia.

Almost 300 senior and experienced police officers from across the US and 25 countries across the globe including China, Hong Kong and the Ukraine are attending the course.

Inspector Faudemer said: "This is an honour for me and the States of Jersey Police.

"About 1,000 people attend the graduation. I feel very privileged to be entrusted by my peers to represent them at this important event."

The residential course has included visits to the New York Police Department and the Philadelphia Police Department.