Safety, Security & Resilience
Tactical, Covert, UAV & ISTAR
For organisations standing up, running or scrutinising tactical, covert and UAV capability: senior practitioners who have done all three, and a conversation before any proposal.
The offer
- What it is
- Discreet, senior-led capability across three specialist domains: advanced tactical training, covert services, and UAV & ISTAR systems.
- Why it matters
- This kind of requirement is sensitive by nature and the provider list is short.
- How we deliver it
- Senior practitioners with national-level operational experience and the clearances to operate credibly in sensitive environments.
- What to expect
- A conversation before a proposal, and access to the wider consortium brought in only as far as the engagement requires.
Led by our Experts
We have sourced the world’s best policing and emergency services SMEs. Tactical, Covert, UAV & ISTAR is led by Gary Ritchie KPM and Troy Cooper.
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GCG Consortium
Australia
Gary Ritchie KPM
GCG Managing Partner
Managing Partner, and former Assistant Chief Constable of Police Scotland, retiring in 2025 after 34 years' policing service, with executive oversight of organisational change, partnerships and prevention, international policing development and operational support. He chaired the Scottish Resilience Partnership — advising the First Minister of Scotland on emergency and event preparedness — and held Gold Command during COP26 in Glasgow. He was awarded the King's Police Medal in 2025 and made an Honorary Professor of Edinburgh Napier University. He is now based in Sydney.
Skills & focus
- Strategic command
- Resilience & emergency preparedness
- Public health & harm reduction
- Leadership development
- Partnerships & prevention
Years of service 34
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GCG Consortium
Australia
Troy Cooper
GCG Director Covert and Tactical
Troy Cooper is GCG's Director Covert and Tactical. He led operations in the Western Australian Police Force, then held the Victorian Government's Director of Covert Services role, accountable for legislated covert investigative capability. As ANZCTC Western Australian Capability Advisor he was embedded with the Australian Department of Defence, building advanced tactical training and counter-terrorism capability across Australia and New Zealand.
Skills & focus
- Counter-terrorism & tactical capability
- Protective security
- Technical surveillance countermeasures
- UAV operations
- Investigations & covert support
Years of service 29+
Delivered by our Experts 3 supporting members
United Kingdom
Tactical, Covert, UAV & ISTAR
Specialist capability in tactical and covert operations support, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and ISTAR — intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance. Our practitioners have run these capabilities at national level. Clearances take months to obtain, so tell us early if your requirement needs one we do not yet hold.
A senior practitioner scopes the requirement with you directly, in confidence. Client engagements are confidential by default. References are available in direct conversation.
The experience behind it
Troy Cooper is GCG's Director Covert and Tactical. He led operations in the Western Australian Police Force, then held the Victorian Government's Director of Covert Services role, accountable for legislated covert investigative capability. As ANZCTC Western Australian Capability Advisor he was embedded with the Australian Department of Defence, building advanced tactical training and counter-terrorism capability across Australia and New Zealand.
The Papua New Guinea Government engaged him as Lead Consultant to stand up the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary's Kumul 23 Police Tactical Group. He designed the unit, ran the programme and delivered it in country, alongside national and provincial agencies. He has also designed wide-area CCTV networks for public areas and critical infrastructure across Papua New Guinea, and delivered Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (TSCM) sweeps for corporate and government clients.
You deal directly with the practitioner who carried the legal accountability for covert services himself, and who has built a tactical group for a national government from nothing. He also knows the people you will need to work with across Western Australian, Victorian and Pacific-region government and law enforcement.