Fourth Digital Policing Summit

Jules is a senior leader and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Essex Police and Kent Police - two major police forces serving a joint population of circa 3.4 million people. The forces employ over 12,000 police officers and staff, and all technology provision is managed via the IT Services department, with a combination of in-house and commissioned services. Jules heads up a team of 235 staff with an annual operating budget of £25 million. Jules leads on digital transformation for both police forces, ensuring that the outcomes of new technology solutions can deliver business change improvements for policing.
Both forces are facing budgetary challenges in the current public sector economic climate, and investing in technology to leverage savings and transformational change is a priority for Essex and Kent Police IT (including channel shift, web services, mobile policing, body worn video cameras , Office 365 & other forms of digitalisation), alongside a parallel investment programme to modernise the underlying IT infrastructure with a hybrid approach to on-premise and cloud data storage. Essex Police and Kent Police are the pilot forces for a national migration to Microsoft’s Office 365 platform, storing police data in the cloud with a standard security design.
Jules joined Essex Police in 2005, and has worked in a number of roles since then, including business and IT change, delivering major structural re-organisation of the Essex Police Estate. In November 2012, Jules was appointed as the Programme Director for the Essex and Kent Police joint Support Services Directorate, where seven key departments in each Force (IT, Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Business Services, Procurement Services, Transport Services & Estate Services) converged to provide shared services support for both Police Forces.
In 2014, Jules took on the Director of IT role to transform the technology services provided to the two Police Forces.
Jules graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a 2:1 BA Honours Degree in English Literature and German, and worked in Promotions and PR for BBC Radio 1 FM for four years before moving to change management in the technology industry. She worked in a variety of programme management roles in the private sector, implementing outsourced customer contact centres in global locations across a variety of corporations and accounts, including American Airlines, American Express, Nokia, Motorola, Palm and Hewlett Packard.

Dave France is the Director Police & Public Protection Technology, in the Home Office Digital, Data and Technology function.
He has a background delivering complex business solutions in Commercial/Wholesale Banking. His experience covers both the programme and project direction through to the construction of architectural road maps and their subsequent delivery along with overall delivery and departmental strategy.
His major responsibility in the Home Office is to direct the design, build and deployment of national law enforcement systems, ensuring that they are highly effective, efficient systems which leverage modern digital technologies and provide world-class law enforcement capabilities.
Dave is also non-executive director of the Police ICT Company and has significant advisory responsibilities across other non-Home Office Policing programmes.

Yvonne has had a career in over 25 years covering technology, business change and digital transformation. She has had senior roles in the private sector in large organisations such as the Prudential and Network Rail. Yvonne has been CIO in two government departments, as well as Chief Digital Officer and CIO in the private sector prior to her move to the NAO. Yvonne is also a Fellow of the BCS and member of their Organisation and Employer Board. Yvonne’s role in the NAO is to provide specialist support for the NAO’s work for Parliament evaluating how well Digital and associated business change programmes are implemented to deliver value for money.

Mark joined the Crown Prosecution Service in July 2016, where he leads the digital & technology directorate. He is driving the CPS’ 2020 Digital Strategy – priorities include investments in new hardware, software and infrastructure; migration to cloud of a wide range of services; building partnerships across the criminal justice system; and contract disaggregation. He previously worked in a variety of private sector roles, most recently at Barclays Bank. Away from work, he has a three-year-old son, a new baby daughter and is a keen football supporter, chess player and curry eater!

Dave Rogers is Chief Technology Officer at the Ministry of Justice. Formerly of guardian.com, BBC, and Government Digital Service, and a software developer and technical architect by background. Dave writes and talks about leadership and strategy in technology, particularly within a central government context. Dave is currently interested in the impact of agile and lean thinking to established ways of working in technology organisational design, cyber security, data science and cloud technology.

As Chief Constable, Giles York engages closely with the Police and Crime Commissioner and leads the Chief Officer team for Sussex Police.
Giles started his service with Kent Police in 1990. He worked through many operational aspects of policing, going on to serve as the Area Commander of Medway and then Head of Special Branch within Kent Police. He had responsibility for the policing of the Channel Tunnel, the Kent ports and worked in the office of the National Co-ordinator of Special Branch.
Giles York was appointed as Assistant Chief Constable with South Wales Police in 2005, where his portfolio included local policing and force crime and operations as well as being the lead for Counter Terrorism for Wales and Serious and Organised Crime. He was also the Gold Commander for several significant force and regional operations, including environmental protests involving a number of forces.
Giles was promoted to Deputy Chief Constable in Sussex Police in 2008. He was Programme Director for Serving Sussex 2015, the Force’s change programme, which looked at ways of modernising the force to improve the service for the public whilst making £50 million worth of savings.
Giles is the force lead for Diversity and in this role he has established a network of force champions who lead internally and externally for different aspects of diversity. Giles’s work with the diversity champions has led to Sussex Police regularly being in the Stonewall top 100 employers.
He is the National Police Chief Constables’ Council lead for Workforce Development and the College of Policing Community Chair for Professional Development and Integrity. He is national police lead for Intellectual Property Crime and Digital Policing.
Giles also chairs the Niche Development Board which seeks to deliver the opportunity for forces to operate from a single, cloud based platform.
He is married to Sally and they have three children and two spaniels.