Tom Lockhart

Head of Technical Operations

Tom is the technical engine behind the business. He understands every aspect of dealing with threats at the highest level. Such is his expertise he was the Special Forces advisor for Prince Charles. His global perspective combined with his professionalism has been invaluable in the training of all levels of staff within VIGILO. His incident and crisis situation experience has helped formed standard operating procedures that are first class. 
 
Tom spent 22 years in the British Army, including 16 years with the UK Special Forces. He planned, operated and managed long-term surveillance operations against hard-line terrorists and criminal groups in many theatres, where his speciality was, covert operations and the application of cutting-edge technology to them. He served as an instructor at the Unit’s base and as an operational advisor to the UK Defence Research Agency. In his final tour of duty, he played a lead role in establishing a Special Forces Technical Unit with a worldwide multi-theatre capability (SRR). 

Tom has dedicated much of his career to catching the ‘bad guys’. This can, and is, in the form of anti- terrorist, close protection operations and the development of new equipment and operational techniques to utilise technology as a weapon in the fight against terrorism. However, it is also his involvement in the training of VIGILO staff in the same intense techniques to improve their handling of situations be that crowd control or the handling of troublesome individuals. However, where he has excelled is in the area of planning contracts and how they can be effective in delivering the outcomes wanted by the clients.