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Sponsoring
Nations
The Sponsoring Nations (SNs) are the NATO Member States that are collectively participating in the NATO SP COE providing personnel, equipment, funding and other necassary resources.
As today the NATO SP COE Sponsoring Nations are the following:
Transnational Organised Crime, Criminal Investigations, Leadership, Strategic & Tactical Planning, Operational & Logistic Support, International Police Cooperation, Robust Policing, Info-Gathering Activities, Vetting & Audit, Intelligence Management Human Resources and Conduct & Discipline Management, Military Police & Detention Operations, Force Protection, Training, Teaching & Lecturing on Police and Stability Police Matters.
1970
Col. Giuseppe De Magistris was born in 1970.
1989
In 1989 he graduated from the Military High School “Nunziatella” where he completed his high school classical curriculum, and then joined the Italian Military Academy of Modena. Subsequently, Col. De Magistris attended a two-year course at the Carabinieri Officers Academy in Rome from which he graduated with the rank of Second Lieutenant. Since then, Col. De Magistris earned a bachelor degree in “Law” and, in the following years, a degree in “Security Sciences”, a master degree in “Internal and External Security Sciences” and master degree in “Sciences of Security and Organization”.
During his 30 plus-year long career in the Carabinieri Corps (a 110.000 strong Police Force with military status and the twofold responsibility for State Defence and Public Order and Security management), he held numerous commands, attended several specialized courses and was deployed on a large number of operational assignments both in Italy and overseas, where he served in Kosovo and in Bosnia Herzegovina [in the Multinational Specialized Units (MSU) within NATO Missions], then, for three years, in the NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), Belgium, as Officer Commanding of the SHAPE HQ International MP Coy and, double-hatted, as Allied Command Operations (ACO) Deputy Provost Marshal.
Col. De Magistris also operated in Iraq e Afghanistan, within NATO Training Missions, and in Haiti, as inspecting officer from the Carabinieri General HQ to the Italian Formed Police Unit deployed within MINUSTAH.
2013
As of 2013, he holds the rank of Colonel.
2015 | 2017
From September 2015 to September 2017, he served at the United Nations’ HQ, Police Division, in the capacity of Transnational Organized Crime Expert. In Italy, he held several operational commands throughout the Country and was also assigned to staff duties in the Carabinieri Corps General Headquarters.
2019 | now
As of October 18, 2019, Col. Giuseppe De Magistris is the Director of the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence, Vicenza, Italy.
Prior to this assignment, he served as the Carabinieri Provincial Headquarters’ Commanding Officer in Brindisi, Italy.
He shares with his daughter Sofia the love for dogs, and he is an IronMan enthusiastic.
He was born in İzmir in 1977. He attended Maltepe Military High School in İzmir and Turkish Military Academy in Ankara, before he was commissioned as a Gendarmerie officer in 1999.
Since then, he has a 22-year law enforcement experience in many branches of law enforcement missions on theater. During his duty, he served in the management of commando and special operation units, leadership ensuring public order and security of district and province and international missions. He participated in Integrated Police Unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007 and he served as Deputy Turkish Armed Forces Attache in Baku/Azerbaijan.
As of 2021, he holds the rank of Colonel.
Education
1991-1995 High School, Quantitative, Maltepe Military High School, İzmir, Turkey
1995-1999 Bachelor Degree, System Engineering, Turkish Military Academy, Ankara, Turkey
2002-2004 Master Degree, Turkish Military Academy, Defence Sciences Institute – Security Management Branch, Ankara, Turkey
2001-2002 Team Leader, Commando Battalion, İstanbul, Turkey
2004-2006 Company Commander, Şırnak
2006-2011 Special Operation Team Leader, JÖAK, Ankara
2007 (Six months) Platoon Leader in IPU, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2011-2012 Operations and Training Officer, Special Operation Battalion, Bingöl
2012-2013 Chief of Internal Security Education Board, Commando School, Foça
2013-2015 Deputy Turkish Armed Forces Attache in Baku, Azerbaijan
2015-2017 District Gendarmerie Commander, Law Enforcement Chief of District, Arsin, Trabzon
2017-2019 Commando Battalion Commander, Silvan, Diyarbakır
2019-2021 NCO Assignment Office Chief, HQ of General Command of Gendarmerie, Ankara
2021- Deputy Commander, Deputy Commander of Provincial Gendarmerie, Trabzon, Turkey.
1967
Lieutenant-Colonel Marti Grashof was born in 1967 in the Netherlands. He is a Dutch Army officer within the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Marti served most of his professional career in multinational operations, mutual international police assistance and in police work in an international context.
1989
In 1989, Marti’s first steps in the military were as a conscript and petty officer in the Royal Marechaussee, where he served as MP.
1998
He attended the Royal Military Academy in Breda in 1998, from which he graduated with the rank of Second Lieutenant. He held positions as MP platoon commander, and within the aviation security branche, as Commanding Officer for High Risk Flights at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As a major, Marti was head of the Expertise Centre for Crowd & Riot Control at the Marechaussee Training Center in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
2009
In 2009 Marti was deployed in Afghanistan in the ISAF mission. he served in the province of Uruzgan in the G7 cell of the Task Force Uruzgan. Within the Sector Security Reform branche he was responsible for the training of the Afghan National Police. After this mission he worked at the General Headquarters of the Royal Marechaussee as Chief Officer tot he Director of Operations.
2012 – 2015
From 2012 until 2015 Marti asumed the position of Commanding Officer in the province of Utrecht and Noord-Holland for Marechaussee operations.
2015
In 2015 he joint the EULEX mission in Kosovo where he worked as shiftleader in the Joint Operation Room of the EULEX HQ in Pristina.
2017
In April 2017 he was, as Lieutenant-Colonel, detached from the Royal Marechaussee to the National Police, to work as Head of the Unit Foreign Affairs, of the National Police Information Service Organisation in Zoetermeer, Netherlands.
2020
As of September 2020 he is posted as Chief of Staff at the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence, Vicenza, Italy.
