Policing the Nation: ‘British Policing at an inflection point – communities, leadership and performance’
After an interval of nearly three years, Cityforum is pleased to return to our longstanding annual Policing the Nation Summit. The Summit is entitled ‘British Policing at an inflection point – communities, leadership and performance’ and will incorporate a series of virtual events and podcasts, commencing in November 2021 and running through to early 2022.
The purpose of this year’s summit is to deliver an independent assessment of British policing: how the service is seen by the communities it serves and by those who work within it, as well as by the politicians and officials with responsibility for policy strategy and delivery, and to stimulate fresh thinking and practical recommendations for those with authority to drive change.
For more information on the content of the series please view the agenda below.
Agenda
Wednesday 9 February 2022 14:00-16:00
Session Four: Building a sense of community engagement
On the Day Webinar Agenda – Policing Session Four
Sponsor Information
Tuesday 9 November 2021 14:00-16:00 – COMPLETED
Session One: The Peelian Principles and their applicability in the light of the pandemic and societal changes
Tuesday 7 December 2021 14:00-16:00 – COMPLETED
Session Two: The Peelian Principles and digital, data and technology in policing
Wednesday 12 January 2022 14:00-16:00 – COMPLETED
Session Three: Stresses, tensions and inflection points
Wednesday 9 February 2022 14:00-16:00 – COMPLETED
Session Four: Building a sense of community engagement
Speakers
Rt Hon Hazel Blears
Rt Hon Hazel Blears
Former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; former Minister for Policing & Associate CityforumHazel Blears was born and brought up in Salford and has always been a passionate advocate for the City and its people. She has campaigned throughout her life for a fair deal for working people and proper recognition of their skills and talents. The Shelagh Delaney film “A Taste of Honey” was filmed in her terraced street and she has never forgotten her roots. Hazel worked as a lawyer in private practice and local government for 20 years. She was a branch secretary and chair for Unison and an active Member of USDAW. She was also a councillor on Salford City Council for 8 years and was elected as MP for Salford in 1997. She championed the BBC and ITV’s moves to Salford at MediaCity and the creation of the Lowry Centre. Whilst an MP she held ministerial roles in Health, Police and Counter Terrorism and was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. She led the change to community policing, was the author of the Preventing Violent Extremism programme and was responsible for housing, planning and community regeneration. Later as a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee she led the report on the role of Women within the UK Intelligence Community. Hazel Chairs the Social Investment Business which is a partner in the £200m Youth Endowment Fund established by Government to tackle serious youth violence. Hazel now lives in Cumbria and is a Specialist Social Value Adviser with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and is also a Trustee of the Carlisle Youth Zone. For three years Hazel was delighted to Chair Salford University’s Dementia Institute which has at its heart people living with Dementia who are encouraged and empowered to lead research into maximising the independence and quality of life of those with the disease and their friends, families and carers. Hazel has recently become a Member of Council at the University of Lancaster. Hazel is passionate about empowering people to take leading roles in their communities and in making commercial organisations be more socially responsible. For communities to develop and prosper it is essential that they are fully involved in driving change.
Ms Mary Calam
Ms Mary Calam
Associate Cityforum, former Director General of Crime and Policing Home OfficeMary Calam had a long career in UK government, in a range of senior positions across law enforcement, national security and counter terrorism. These included: Regional Director for the Independent Police Complaints Commission, overseeing investigations into complaints and allegations of misconduct across police forces in the north of England; Deputy Director, Knowledge at the Serious Organised Crime Agency, responsible for assessment and analysis of serious crime threats; Director of National Security in the Home Office, supporting the Home Secretary in oversight of MI5 and in the exercise of executive powers relating to national security. Most recently, she was Director General for Crime, Policing and Fire in the Home Office, where she had responsibility for all policy, legislation, strategy and funding for policing, crime and the fire service. On leaving the Civil Service in 2016, Mary joined McKinsey & Company, where she co-led the UK public sector practice and served law enforcement and other government clients around the world. Her current portfolio includes a number of advisory roles, including with McKinsey and she also works as a self employed consultant, serving clients across the UK national security and law enforcement communities. She is a Non-Executive Director of the National Crime Agency and lectures on University College London’s MSc course on leadership in policing. Mary is also a Trustee of the Police Foundation.
Mr Andrew Candlish
Mr Andrew Candlish
Regional Manager UK Central Government and Justice CiscoAndrew has worked for Cisco for 22 years, the last 12 in the public sector team. Andrew’s career started in a UK based software house in 1988 at the advent of the Unix open systems revolution and the first relational databases. In 1994, Andrew worked in Hong Kong for Reuters and Grant Thornton, in roles that took him across South East Asia. At Cisco, Andrew now manages an experienced team working across Central Government and Justice and the Blue Light sector. It’s a fascinating role at a fascinating time in the world of IT.
PC Olivia Dixon
PC Olivia Dixon
Hertfordshire ConstabularyOlivia Dixon joined Hertfordshire Constabulary through the Police Now National Graduate Leadership Programme in 2017 where she joined the Stevenage Safer Neighbourhood Team. She successfully completed 4 long-term problem-solving projects during her two-year probation, presenting the learning points from these projects back to her Police Now colleagues at national conferences. After completing her probation on the neighbourhood team, she has been on a local response team for a year and was quickly propelled into being one of the senior PCs despite only a few years’ service. Olivia became a Licensed Search Officer in October 2019 and since then has been involved in a number of high-profile searches including the searches of the Grove Hotel in Watford for the NATO summit. She is currently on her local proactive team and is due to shortly start a new role in intelligence in Regional Organised Crime with the longer-term goal of becoming a detective and working her way up through the ranks.
Ms Christine Elliott
Ms Christine Elliott
Chair Advisory Board, Positive Planet UKChristine has been the Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council since March 2019. Its first lay Chair, she has considerable experience in leading, and leading change, in complex public and private sector organisations. As part of her pro bono work, Christine chairs the Advisory Board of Positive Planet UK, which focuses on supporting diverse entrepreneurs to deliver technology to repair and mitigate climate change. She is currently a Director of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and an independent member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee. Christine is Chair of WellebeingatWork.World (Sonas Group), a global, integrated multi-channel platform to make the wellbeing of employees a strategic priority through Summits, Hub & Bespoke. She is an Associate of Cityforum, acknowledged leaders in policy analysis and public debate since 1990; and a Council member of the Rural Policy Group, a visionary action-oriented think tank and advocate for rural policy. She was previously the Chair of Borough Market and the Interim Chair of the College of Policing as well as the Chair of their Regulatory Consultative Group, having previously served as Senior Independent Director; and was a board member for six years. Christine has a strong interest in innovation and served as an advisory board member of Convergence.tech, a digital transformation headquartered in Toronto, Canada. She chaired the Advisory Board of Albeego Ltd, a British mobile telecoms firm providing digital devices with stable, secure internet connectivity. Christine’s Chief Executive roles included Bletchley Park, regenerating the now internationally renowned, award-winning site; and Institute for Turnaround, a leading source of transformation knowledge.
Ms Hacer Evans
Ms Hacer Evans
Managing Director AccentureHacer Evans is currently the Strategic Technology Lead for Defence and Security, Accenture UKI. Prior to joining Accenture, she has spent the last 27 years working in the public sector. Hacer started her career in the field of Forensic Science at Thames Valley Police, following this she held various leadership positions as Head of Forensic Science and Head of Profession for Justice and Forensic Science at BTP. In 2014, Hacer graduated from the Strategic Command Course and in 2015 transferred to Sussex Police as an Assistant Chief Officer, taking up a national role as Director of the Digital Policing Portfolio. Here she was responsible for developing and delivering digitally enabled enhancements to national policing across four major programmes of work. In 2020, Hacer joined NHS Digital as the Director of Screening Technology, responsible for the operational management of national screening services and the national Digital Transformation of Screening programme. During this time Hacer was also responsible for the Mass Flu Vaccination programme and mobilised the National Booking Service for C-19 Vaccinations. Hacer is a graduate of the Cabinet Office, Major Projects Leadership Academy at Oxford University. She is passionate about gender equality in technology and is an ambassador and advocate for STEM, investing time in making young women aware of the opportunities available to them.
Ms Caroline Hay
Ms Caroline Hay
Board member for the National Strategic Policing Review; Inspector City of London PoliceCaroline started working for The Metropolitan Police in 2004 in a frontline response capacity. She then took a partnership Sergeant role, looking after Camden. Caroline took maternity time then moved to The City of London Police as an Inspector. In the background, Caroline has created @WeCops, which has become a national professional policing discussion forum covering a range of topics on the Twitter platform. We now have over 12K followers and regularly a 3 million reach. Caroline also sits on the College of Policing Editorial Board for the Going Equipped Magazine and on the National Strategic Policing Review Board.
Rt Hon the Lord Nick Herbert
Rt Hon the Lord Nick Herbert
Chair, College of PolicingNick Herbert (The Rt Hon The Lord Herbert of South Downs CBE PC) was appointed Chair of the College of Policing on 1 January 2021. He is also Chair of the Countryside Alliance, The Project for Modern Democracy, the Global TB Caucus and the Global Equality Caucus. He is a Board Advisor to Get Licenced. Most recently Nick was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on LGBT Rights. Nick was appointed to the Privy Council in 2010, awarded a CBE in 2016 and created a Life Peer in 2020. Nick went to school at Haileybury, from where he won an Open Exhibition to read Law and Land Economy at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Nick lives in Arundel, West Sussex, with his husband Jason Eades. In this spare time, he enjoys racing and country sports, watching cricket and rugby and going to the theatre, cinema, opera and ballet.
Mr Martin Hewitt
Mr Martin Hewitt
Chair National Police Chiefs' CouncilMartin Hewitt is Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). He was appointed in April 2019. He began his policing career with Kent Police in 1993 and transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service in 2005. As an Assistant Commissioner for five years, Martin led frontline and local policing, specialist crime and professional standards. He led the national police response to adult sexual offences and kidnap between 2014 and 2019, and served as a Vice-Chair for the NPCC from 2015 before taking on the chairmanship.
Mr Mike Hill
Mr Mike Hill
Director of Police & Public Protection Technology Home OfficeMike is responsible for the delivery of national scale data capabilities to policing and other law enforcement bodies. These capabilities leverage digital technologies, platforms and techniques in order to enable a profound impact for our customers and their ability to protect our communities. Mike’s background is in programme management having led complex IT, Telecoms and Transformation programmes across the public & private sectors. Latterly Mike has undertaken business leadership roles within the Transport and Public Sectors. Mike brings that delivery focus and strategic mindset to his role of Director, PPPT; working closely with senior law enforcement stakeholders to shape and optimise the national delivery environment.
Mr David Jackson
Mr David Jackson
Head of Business Engagement Police Digital ServiceChief Superintendent David Jackson joined the Police Digital Service in October 2021 on secondment from the Metropolitan Police Service as the Director of Business Engagement. Prior to this, he was the officer in charge of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Contact, Command & Control services, which handles over 6 million emergency and non-emergency telephone calls every year, and dispatches police resources to over 1.6 million incidents per year. His team consisted of over 1700 employees, working from three purpose-built facilities across London, with an operating budget of over £100m per annum. David is a 31-year veteran of contact, command and control, beginning his police service in 1990 with Nottinghamshire Police as a contact advisor. He progressed through local and the force control room to being one of the organisation’s trainers for Command & Control. In 1995, he transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service where he has worked either in citizen facing or command and control roles at every rank. In 2008, David was successful in joining the National Police High Potential Development Scheme and has worked on a number of high-profile programmes both in London and internationally. David has a post-graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management and his professional interests include coaching individuals to achieve their aspirations. He is an active coach and mentor to a wide cross section of people from both the police family and beyond.
Ms Una Jennings
Ms Una Jennings
T/Assistant Chief Constable Cheshire PoliceUna has been a serving police officer for 20 years, starting her career in the Police Service of Northern Ireland and currently serving in Cheshire constabulary. She has been a detective for 17 of those 20 years, working across child abuse, serious crime and intelligence functions at each rank from Detective Constable to Detective Chief Superintendent. She is a PIP 4 qualified senior investigating officer, a role held by a small cadre of officers nationally, for use in serial, serious and complex homicides. She is also a PIP 3 qualified homicide/ kidnap senior investigating officer, a qualified strategic/tactical firearms commander, gold public order commander and authorising officer under RIPA 2000 for CHIS and technical deployments. She has served as a Chief Superintendent District Commander at both Rotherham and Sheffield Districts, Head of Crime for South Yorkshire Police and is currently T/ACC Crime in Cheshire constabulary.
She has a strong academic background and interest in evidence-based policy and practice. Una has a honours degree in Law, QUB Belfast and a Masters degree in Criminology from Cambridge University.
Ms Donna Jones
Ms Donna Jones
Victims Lead APCC; Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner, Hampshire & the Isle of WightDonna Jones was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight on 6 May 2021, achieving 312,993 of the votes cast across the two counties, and officially took up post on Thursday 13 May after taking the Oath of Office. Donna has been a magistrate in Hampshire for 16 years. This has helped her develop a strong background in criminal justice. When she was appointed by the Lord Chancellor in October 2005, she was the youngest member of the judiciary in England and Wales. From 2014-2018 Donna was the first woman to be elected the Leader of Portsmouth City council in Hampshire, presiding over a £780million budget. She has a thorough understanding of managing public sector finances; of generating new income and removing wastage from outdated contracts ensuring your taxes are spent wisely. Donna is Hampshire born and bred. Her professional background is in banking. She is married with two teenage sons.
Mr John Kabuye
Mr John Kabuye
Founder of Ubuntu Centre (BAME community centre) MiddlesbroughJohn Kabuye was born in Uganda. He is an alumnus of Teesside University, Middlesbrough with a Masters in Information Technology Management, PGCE (IT and Maths). He a professional Lecturer and is an active member of the diverse local community and works with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups across the Tees Valley. John is a founding Director of Ubuntu Multicultural Centre CIC based in Middlesbrough. He is a school governor and a trustee of Middlesbrough food bank. John works in further education as Mathematics Lecturer and is passionate about education and community empowerment and cohesion. He has stood for political local positions twice, planning to do it again. John always works to make sure everyone gets a fair chance in the community he lives in.
Ms Sophie Linden
Ms Sophie Linden
Deputy Mayor Policing & Crime LondonSophie Linden was a special advisor to David Blunkett in the Department for Education and Employment from 1997-2001 before moving to the Home Office to work with the police in tackling crime and anti-social behaviour as a special advisor until 2004. Whilst at the Home Office she worked with the Home Secretary and Ministers on policy development and strategy including:
• police reform, crime and antisocial behaviour reduction
• neighbourhood policing
• reducing the harm caused by illegal drugs
From 2006 Sophie was a Councillor at Hackney Council until her appointment by the Mayor of London, as well as Deputy Mayor of Hackney Council from 2011.
Sir Craig Mackey
Sir Craig Mackey
Former Deputy Commissioner Metropolitan Police Service & Associate CityforumSir Craig’s long police career culminated in a six-year tenure as Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, from which he retired in 2018. His police career began in 1984 with Wiltshire Constabulary, from where he moved to Gloucestershire Constabulary as Assistant and subsequently Deputy Chief Constable and then on to Cumbria. As Chief Constable of Cumbria Police, he worked closely with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and Sellafield Ltd. He joined the Civil Nuclear Police Authority board as an independent member in 2019 and also serves on the board of the British Transport Police. Sir Craig has just joined Cityforum as an Associate and will be advising on policing and national security questions. His civil contingencies and resilience experience will be significant as our work in this area increases.
Mr Peter McCall
Mr Peter McCall
Police and Crime Commissioner, CumbriaPeter McCall is a very proud Cumbrian and grew up in Wigton attending the Nelson Thomlinson School. After University in Glasgow, he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to train as an Army officer. In an army career spanning 34 years on operations and in UK in Logistics, training, HR, procurement and multi-million-pound contracted services management, Peter was the Principal of a Technical College (including a rebuild and change of location), Regimental Colonel of the Royal Logistic Corps of 16,000 personnel supporting operations in Afghanistan and around the world and was latterly responsible for managing the careers of personnel of his own Corps and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, some 20,000 men and women. Peter have served on operations as diverse as Foot and Mouth here in Cumbria, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Bosnia, security for the Olympics and most recently fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone. Peter is married to Ruth a Community Midwife in Carlisle and has two grown up children. He left the army in December 2015. Peter is an active Christian involved in local churches. He is a trustee of Bassenfell a Christian Outdoor Pursuits Centre and until recently was a volunteer at the Glasgow City Mission working with homeless people. He runs daily, walk the fells when time permits and is a keen reader of history and historical novels.
Ms Olivia Pinkney
Ms Olivia Pinkney
Chief Constable Hampshire ConstabularyOlivia joined Hampshire Constabulary as chief constable in April 2016. She is focused on ensuring that the people the constabulary serves are safer by tackling crime and offending, identifying and protecting those who need our
help, and building partnerships that enable a better public service. A great service can only be delivered through the values of transparency, integrity, impartiality and always putting the public first. Olivia’s commitment to her officers and staff is reflected in her focus upon their wellbeing, both short and long term. Olivia is determined that the constabulary is ethical and inclusive of all. Olivia is the chair of the National Police Co-ordination Committee for Local Policing, the chair of the Police Steering Committee, Cumberland Lodge, and the national chaplaincy lead for the police service. Within the force area, Olivia is the chair of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum. Olivia began her policing career with Avon and Somerset Constabulary. She later served as assistant chief constable for Surrey and Sussex forces before being appointed deputy chief constable at Sussex. In 2013, Olivia was appointed assistant inspector of constabulary with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, independently reporting on the effectiveness and efficiency of all police forces in England and Wales. Olivia was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 2016 New Year Honours list.
Mr David Robinson
Mr David Robinson
Director of Sales for software and video solutions EMEA Motorola SolutionsDavid Robinson is the Director of Sales for software and video solutions in EMEA. David has worked with Motorola Solutions for twenty years in a variety of roles providing mission critical voice and data solutions to the emergency services community. Over the last few years, David has focussed on Motorola’s front line mobility, control room and evidence management solutions, as well as video and analytics solutions. This has included working with our partnerships in UK policing in the evolution, development and delivery of data services and information management in support of the police service’s digital journey.
Ms Taslim Rashid
Ms Taslim Rashid
Senior ESOL Practitioner QED FoundationTaslim Rashid has worked in teaching and learning for 20 years; supporting learners in a variety of diverse settings. This has included teaching IT skills to individuals recovering from mental illness; supporting staff and students at the University of Birmingham as a Chaplain; mentoring A level students at a Sixth Form College; and designing a Saturday curriculum for Year 11 Asian girls in Sandwell to raise self-esteem and academic performance. Taslim has volunteered her time with ethnic minority ‘grass roots’ initiatives to include mentoring in secondary schools; sitting on a scrutiny panel at a Midlands prison to deal with racial incidents; and being part of an arts group promoting community cohesion through creativity. She has worked at QED Foundation as a senior ESOL specialist for the past 7 years, designing and delivering a number of ESOL, Employability and Life Skills courses alongside information, advice and guidance. Currently she is delivering Citizenship workshops for Third Country Nationals. In the last year, Taslim has delivered online 1:1 ESOL lessons to an Imam to help improve his delivery during Friday Mosque sermons. She hopes to develop this work further so that language isn't a barrier for imams.
Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Sebire
Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Sebire
Bedfordshire Police; NPCC Lead for Serious ViolenceACC Jacqueline Sebire is the ACC for Joint Protective Services for Bedfordshire Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. She oversees specialist operations, major crime and forensic services across the three counties. The majority of her service was as a detective in homicide and serious crime investigations in the Metropolitan Police. She was the senior investigating officer for a number for a number of high-profile cases including the ‘Spy in the bag’ case and the conviction of Britain’s youngest hit man. She has also served in the London Boroughs of Newham, Hackney and, prior to transferring to Bedfordshire, was the Temporary Borough Commander for Waltham Forest. Her current role is as ACC for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire’s Joint Protective Services Command where she is responsible for the provision of specialist operations, major investigations and scientific services across the three counties. Jacqueline has a PhD in Forensic Psychology and in January 2016 was appointed a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. She has published a number of articles in relation to domestic abuse and risk management and lectured nationally and internationally regarding her research. She is a member of the European Union Cooperation in Science and Technology Working Group on Femicide prevention. She has also advised the Police Service of Trinidad and Tobago on best practice in Homicide Investigation. In March 2019 was invited to speak at the United Nations, New York, Commission on the Status of Women regarding community cohesion and women’s access to justice. Jacqueline was the National Police Chief’s Council Serious Violence Co-ordinator and has worked extensively with the Government regarding legislation change, funding and multiagency prevention strategies. Her primary focus has been the provision of support and opportunity for young people. Jacqueline as extensive media experience. She has been a co-host of the TV series “Born to Kill; A Class Of Their Own” and is the Bedfordshire Police lead for Garden Productions 24 hours in Police Custody Series
Mr David Shaw
Mr David Shaw
Former Chief Constable West Mercia, Associate CityforumDavid Shaw served as a police officer for 36 years culminating in his role as Chief Constable of West Mercia Police from 2011-16. He also served at chief officer level in West Midlands Police leading on Counter Terrorism, Crime, Local Policing, Criminal Justice and ICT. He has held national portfolios in Fingerprints, Biometric Databases and Conflict Management. In late 2016 David became interim Programme Director for the Transforming Forensics Programme before joining the Home Office Biometrics Programme as Strategic Stakeholder Lead. In September 2019 he began a new role with responsibility for Stakeholder Engagement within the Innovation Team of the Law Enforcement Portfolio of the Home Office, supporting a range of major technology programmes. In July 2020, he commenced a programme of learning which will enable him to become a supervisor on the Police Executive programme at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Justice Tankebe
Dr Justice Tankebe
Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology University of CambridgeJustice Tankebe is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. Prior to coming to Cambridge, he studied for a BA in Sociology at the University of Ghana, Legon. He was awarded postdoctoral research fellowships by the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, and Fitzwilliam College. Justice's research interests are in police and state legitimacy, corruption, police violence, and vigilantism. His current research projects include legitimacy and counter-terrorism policing in the UK, police violence in Ghana, and corruption among prospective elites in Ghana.
Professor Paul Taylor
Professor Paul Taylor
Chief Scientific Adviser to National Police Chiefs' CouncilPaul was appointed the first Policing Chief Scientific Advisor on 1 May 2021. Based at the NPCC, Paul's role is to deepen and expand police capability to harness science and technology across the full range of its business. Prior to becoming CSA, Paul was director of the UKIC and Home Office funded national hub for behavioural and social science for national security (CREST), whose 143 researchers from 35 HEIs and SMEs contributed significantly to training, investigative practices, and policy. Paul began his career researching crisis negotiation, receiving a MPS Commissioner Commendation in 2005 for his contributions to a series of complex international investigations. Paul is a Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and at the University of Twente.
Professor Leslie Thomas QC
Professor Leslie Thomas QC
Garden Court ChambersProfessor Leslie Thomas QC, is a leading human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers. He has an international practice and has appeared in many leading policing and human rights cases, (Azelle Rodney, Mark Duggan, Christopher Alder and Sean Rigg). He was awarded Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2012 and 2016. In 2020 he received the award for Outstanding Contribution to D&I in the UK Chambers Bar Awards. Since 2020 he is Professor of Law at Gresham College and visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths Law School, University of London. He is currently representing many Grenfell Fire survivors and victims. Professor Thomas sits on the Equality Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee for the Inner Temple and is a member of the Bar Standards Board and also sits on its Race Equality Taskforce.
Mr Ian Williams
Mr Ian Williams
Software Consultant for Europe Motorola SolutionsIan Williams joined the Metropolitan Police in 1989 where he served in West and South London for the first 15 years of his service in frontline operational roles. The remainder of his service was spent in West Yorkshire Police, specialising in neighbourhood policing, partnerships, public order and firearms command roles. The last four years of his service was spent leading the delivery of mobile policing. Ian retired as Chief Inspector having led the rollout of Mobile Policing and Body Worn Video. He is now working for Motorola Solutions as a senior consultant in critical communications
Sir Thomas Winsor
Sir Thomas Winsor
Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary HMICFRSIn October 2012, Sir Thomas was appointed as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary. He is the first holder of that office to come from a non-policing background. In July 2017, he was appointed as the first ever Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services. Between 1999 and 2004, Sir Thomas was the Rail Regulator and International Rail Regulator, the economic regulatory authority for the railways in Great Britain.
Mr Giles York
Mr Giles York
Former Chief Constable Sussex Police & Associate CityforumGiles York has enjoyed a successful career in policing across Kent, South Wales and Sussex. His work covered many aspects of operational policing including counter-terrorism, tackling serious organised crime as well as local policing. Nationally, he led a number of digital change programmes in policing and criminal justice. He was the national lead for Workforce, being the full range of people issues and leadership in policing. He championed diversity and inclusion on gender, race, disability and LGBT locally, nationally and internationally. He is a trustee for the UK Police Memorial Trust. He is married to Sally and they have three, mostly grown up, children and two springer spaniels.