People in Policing – moving to policing as a profession

Working alongside the Director of Employment and Skills Policy, Verity is responsible for developing EEF’s skills, education and employment policy. She responds to government consultations and inquiries on employment, skills and education issues. She also supports EEF’s National Employment and Skills Policy Committee as well as leading EEF’s regional skills groups.
Verity regularly appears in print media where she writes about why it's important that manufacturers have access to the right quality and quantity of skills. She is the co-author of EEF’s Skills for Growth, Up-Skill Battle, Lifting the Lid on the Levy and Making Migration Work for Manufacturers report.

Verity has represented the views of manufacturers on a number of high-level stakeholder group including the Home Office Employer Representative Group on EU migration and DfE Apprenticeship Levy Transfers Group. She has also represented EEF at APPG and Parliamentary Select Committee hearings.

Prior to joining EEF, Verity worked at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry where she led on employment and skills in. Prior to the LCCI she worked at the public affairs agency College Public Policy.

Verity has a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics as well as an MSc in Public Affairs and Lobbying.

Clare joined the Metropolitan Police Service in May 2013 as Deputy Director of HR prior to becoming the Director of HR in January 2015.

Before coming to London, Clare worked in Surrey Police as the Director of Corporate Services where she led Finance, HR, ICT and Shared Business Services.

Clare has spent her career working in policing, originally in operational support roles before moving into HR and then in Corporate Development and Strategic Change. She has been at the forefront of leading transformation in back office functions, and workforce modernisation.

Clare is the national lead for workforce reform, developing innovative programmes to modernise the people agenda across the police service. She was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2017 for services to policing

Outside the Met, Clare is a Trustee for the Police Now Social Enterprise. She is also the Chair for the Rushmoor Citizens Advice Bureau Trustee Board.

Jules is a senior leader and the Director of IT for Essex Police and Kent Police - two major police forces serving a joint population of circa 3.4 million people. The forces employ 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 & 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.

Dr Ian Hesketh is a serving Police Officer currently seconded to the Organisational Development and Leadership Faculty at the College of Policing. During his policing career he has carried out a number of specialist operational roles including Armed Response, Police Partnerships and the Mounted Branch. He has worked on secondments with the United Nations in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and with the OSCE in Kosovo. Ian has also worked on numerous police change and review programmes and also consults as a UK police expert for the European Union, most recently working on a twinning project in Serbia and a strategic HR programme in the Ukraine.

Ian is an Honorary Researcher at Lancaster University Management School and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University Business School. He holds a PhD in Management and Social Psychology and an MBA from Lancaster University, as well as a Dip Mgt, and Cert Ed from the University of Central Lancashire. He is a Chartered Manager (CMgr), an A1 assessor, and holds Qualified Teaching, Learning and Skills (QTLS) status with the Society for Education and Training in the UK.

His research interests are centered on Wellbeing and Transformation in the context of Policing, and most notably he introduced the concept and phenomena of Leaveism to explain human behaviours associated with workplace workload and stress. In 2012 his article on Transformational Leadership during Change was voted one of the Top 5 Management Articles by the Chartered Management Institute. Professor Sir Cary Cooper and he were Routledge’s authors of the month for September 2017, in recognition of their book Managing Health and Wellbeing in the Public Service. Their latest book, Wellbeing at Work: How to design, implement and evaluate an effective strategy is due out later this year (2018).

Ian regularly lectures at Colleges, Universities and other organisations throughout the UK and overseas. He is the author of numerous academic papers on workplace wellbeing, change, leadership and public value.

Ian is a Member of the Society for Education and Training, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, DBE, RGN, HV, LLB, MA, CMI is currently the Director of Nursing, Policy & Practice at the Royal College of Nursing. Donna is a member of the RCN Executive Team. Her portfolio includes Nursing and Public Affairs (UK and International) departments.

Donna held various roles, prior to join the RCN, including clinical director of emergency medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust; Executive Director of Nursing, Southeast London Cluster Board; Director of Commissioning, London Borough of Southwark & Southwark PCT.

She was the Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna advised the PM’s Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery in 2010 and served as nurse/child health assessor to the Victoria Climbié Inquiry.

Detective Superintendent Arman Mathieson is the Crystallise programme lead, which includes responsibility for the DII Local Operating Reference Model, Project Galvanise (focusing on proactive policing of the internet) and the Communications Data as a Platform (CDaaP) project (seeking to streamline, standardise and share communications data). Arman has spent the last 4 years working in cybercrime and digital policing. Prior to taking on this new role Arman was Gloucestershire’s Force Authorising Officer and Head of the Digital Investigations and Intelligence department, which included serious and organised crime, source handling, covert authorities, digital forensics and the digital intelligence unit.

David Spencer was an officer in the Metropolitan Police Service from 2003 to 2016, prior to which he spent four years in recruitment consultancy. As a Detective Chief Inspector with the Met he was responsible for leading a range of operational teams, including being responsible for combatting gang crime, robbery and burglary. It was while working in his frontline policing role in East London that he developed Police Now with his colleague, Tor Garnett. Since first pitching and co-founding the programme in 2013 David has subsequently been the driving force responsible for growing the Police Now programme from an idea into the award winning national graduate recruitment programme it is today.

Gavin Thomas was elected as President of the Police Superintendents Association in 2016, representing all Superintendents and Chief Superintendents in England and Wales. Prior to becoming a full time national officer of the Association , Gavin had been head of Crime and Protective Services in Gloucestershire Constabulary. He has been a Detective for most of his career in fraud , serious and organised crime investigation , Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. He has attended the FBI Quantico programme and has a keen interest in the application of technology and data to improve policing response to the new and emerging crime patterns on line.

Former MP Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire’s first Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), was re-elected with an overwhelming majority in May 2016.

Chair of the Police Reform and Transformation Board and the Business Enablers sub-committee, he is also the Labour lead for finance matters and sits on the Board of the Police ICT company.

He was asked to Chair the Governance Sub-Committee of the Specialist Capabilities Programme which is currently examining how best the Police can respond to new challenges in the changing policing landscape.

As an MP he undertook a number of efficiency studies for the then Prime Minister Tony Blair and was closely involved in the Lawrence Inquiry.

Rachel is the Executive Director responsible for standard setting. She has responsibility for the College faculties, professional development and research functions. Rachel leads College efforts to gather, build and share the best possible evidence.

Rachel previously led knowledge and research teams in the National Policing Improvement Agency and the Home Office. She has published studies on issues ranging from neighbourhood policing and police leadership to handling racist incidents and race hate on the internet, recruitment and career progression of minority ethnic police officers, and flexible working practices.

Rachel has been seconded to several independent and government police reviews and was a member of the first Home Office task force sent to Macedonia to co-ordinate the evacuation of refugees from Kosovo. She began her career as a researcher in the University of East London in 1995, and prior to that became fluent in French working as a trainer, interpreter and course director in Northern France. Her OBE was awarded in 2013 for services to policing, specifically championing evidence-based policing.

Stephanie is currently a Dedicated Ward Officer in South Tottenham, Haringey. She joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 2016 through the Police Now Graduate Leadership Development Programme. Before moving into policing, Stephanie worked with the Terrorism Prevention Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Stephanie obtained a BA in European Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London and a LLM in International Law from the University of Edinburgh, after moving from Austria to the UK in 2011.

Greg Young is a Co-founder and Chief Executive of LeaderShape Global. He has been a thought leader in the field of leadership development following careers in the Lifesciences and Telecommunications. He is a contributor to The Invisible Elephant & The Pyramid Treasure: Tomorrow’s Leadership – the Transpersonal Journey; a co-author of Leadership Assessment for Talent Development and a new title to be released in March, Leading beyond the Ego – How to become a Transpersonal Leader . Greg is also an authority on issues around developing women leaders and blended boards. He has authored a white paper published by Routledge on Women and Leadership, and has been appointed VP for Blended Leadership for PWN London.