Dr Martin Hess’s long career in the Australian Federal Police involved work in various operational capacities, including police intelligence, investigations, surveillance, close personal protection and general community policing, in Australia, and in extensive international engagements. He deployed to Cyprus with UNFICYP in 1996, to East Timor in 1999 with UNAMET and to Afghanistan in 2010-11 with AFP Operation Illuminate. He has also undertaken duties with the AFP Ministerial area and with the Policy and Governance area in relation to Australia’s Non-Permanent Seat on the United Nations Security Council 2013-2014 and was a member of the AFP International Deployment Group from 2007 until 2017.