Howard first went to Thailand in September 2002. He was persuaded to come and visit by a life-long friend, Ben Abrahams, who runs a Bar called Secrets located in Pattaya just off the main “Walking Street”. Initially, Howard only came out for a three week holiday but managed to find employment with a media company in 2007 and formed Pattaya One News and started a radio station, Pattaya 105 where he has a local show.

Howard began working for the Tourist Police back in 2002 and was the first operational foreign Tourist Police Assistant in Thailand. For 6 months he worked alone as the Police were apprehensive about asking further foreigners to join. After the 6 months he had proven his worth and the program was opened up to others.

Since then Howard has appeared on Thai National TV numerous times and has received numerous service awards for his work with the Thai police. He became Group Leader in 2006 and although it was only supposed to be for 2 years his colleagues voted for him to remain in the position indefinitely.