Alan Greenhalgh

Alan Greenhalgh served for fourteen years in the New Zealand Police and actively participated in the Diving, Search and Rescue and Armed Offenders Squads and led a Team Policing unit which was tasked with controlling rampant, violent motor cycle gangs and other unruly elements. He resigned at the rank of Sergeant and emigrated to Western Australia where after knocking around trying various occupations, including working as a security officer at the Argyle Diamond Mine he eventually joined The Australian Protective Service (a division of the Federal Police) responsible for providing counter terrorist first response, diplomatic and consular protection and the security of sensitive government establishments.

Alan quickly rose to the rank of Inspector and established and led the service’s first counter terrorist unit at Perth airport before resigning to develop a security management plan and establish a dedicated security team for Parliament House in Western Australia.

Alan established and ran a sequence of small businesses prior to his retirement including holding the agency licence for a Queensland private investigation firm. He resolved a plethora of fraudulent insurance investigations before ill-health forced him from the active workforce. Since that time he formed and was president of the Joondalup Men’s Shed Inc., a registered health promotion charity which fosters better overall general health and wellbeing for men and provides support services for various organisations and individuals in need such as women’s refuges and groups assisting the underprivileged members of the community.

Alan has a lifelong urge to write having authored various in-house manuals, newsletters and documents; although in his spare time he has studied the writer’s craft and dabbled in bush poetry as a member of the Katherine Susannah Pritchard Writer’s Centre.

Since 2004 Alan has self published four books including his autobiography Always a Rolling Stone which was likened to Angela’s Ashes. He is currently working on a novel The Butcher of Jasenovac which tells the story of a child survivor of the notorious World War II Jasenovac concentration camp and features the mass murderer Peter Brzica. He has also written Big Bucks from Tired Dumps, a “how to” book on profiting purchasing, renovating and selling rundown homes.

Alan’s wealth of life experience and an eclectic list of law and security related qualifications along with many enthralling experiences within the police service provides him with an endless repertoire for his novels.

Having completed considerable research into climate change and global warming Alan is an ardent environmentalist and his novel “No One Left to Clap” is rivetingly entertaining and educational.

Alan is married to wife Chris and between them have ten grandchildren.