The 'Human Mole' leading the hunt for missing Nicola Bulley investigated murder ... trends now
The search and rescue specialist leading the hunt for Nicola Bulley is a former paratrooper who investigated the 'Spy in the Bag' case and murder of April Jones.
Peter Faulding, a world-renowned forensics expert and founder of Specialist Group International, and his team of divers have been brought in to help find missing mother-of-two. He has vowed if she is in the river he will find her 'in minutes'.
Police say their primary theory is that Ms Bulley, who vanished while walking her dog near the River Wyre in Lancashire more than a week ago, slipped or fell into the river, despite not having found any evidence of this.
Mr Faulding, who calls himself a 'human mole', has been brought in to assist on several cold cases and has successfully located human remains - most of which were found in remote locations or underwater - that had gone undetected for years.
He has even trained military members and police search advisers in the UK and acted as a guest instructor with the US Secret Service, FBI and American military.
Peter Faulding (pictured today) and his team of divers have been brought in to help find missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley
He and his team, Specialist Group International (pictured), have been brought in to assist on several cold cases and has successfully located human remains - most of which were found in remote locations or underwater - that had gone undetected for years
Specialist Group International (pictured) works with police, fire and other government agencies to help with rescue and missing persons missions
Specialist Group International works with police, fire and other government agencies to help with rescue and missing persons missions.
The highly disciplined team, led by Mr Faulding, uses cutting edge technical rescue and specialist search equipment to help locate missing people and human remains.
But before he was a world-leading confined space rescue and forensic search specialist, Mr Faulding, of West Sussex, trained with the London Fire Brigade and UK's Search & Rescue Teams in collapsed structure shoring and specialist rescue techniques.
He then was selected for the elite Parachute Regiment and served in the military as a parachutist for six years, according to the biography on his website.
The rescue expert's career seemingly took off in 1996 after he was tasked with safely removing environmental protesters from man-made tunnels under the proposed route of the Newbury Bypass.
The following year he made headlines for removing anti roads protester Swampy from tunnels under the proposed route of the A30 Honiton Bypass.
His work his protester removal operations led him to be a key adviser to the Home Office's 'Policing of Environmental Protest' group.
Mr Faulding (pictured) is a former paratrooper who investigated the 'Spy in the Bag' case and murder of April Jones
Mr Faulding helped remove anti roads protester Swampy from tunnels under the proposed route of the A30 Honiton Bypass. Pictured: Swampy protesting a Manchester Airport expansion in 1997
