Policing the Nation – meeting the digital and societal challenges

Janet Hills is the Chairperson of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA) and has been a serving Police Officer since joining the Metropolitan Police in 1991. She is currently a Detective Sergeant and alongside her policing career has held a number of posts within the MetBPA before becoming the first female Chairperson of the Association in 2013.
As the strategic lead for the MetBPA, it is her ambition that the Association remains relevant in the 21st Century as a key agent for change and a driver for excellence in police service delivery to the diverse communities of London.

Roger Hirst was elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex in May 2016. He believes that safe and secure communities are the bedrock on which we build wellbeing and prosperity for all. He committed in his Police and Crime Plan to increase the local, visible and accessible nature of policing in Essex, crack down on anti-social behaviour and protect children and vulnerable people, as well as continuing to address domestic abuse, deal with gangs and serious violence, and improve road safety.
Roger is a strong advocate for prevention and partnership: he has championed the role of the Special Constabulary and has gathered the resources for an increase in the number of officers within Essex and to provide officers with the technology they need to be more efficient and visible within their communities.
In 2017 Roger became the joint lead for police funding on behalf of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners nationally and was elected to the board of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners in 2018.
Roger became the first Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner in October 2017 and continues to work nationally and locally to build stronger links between emergency services and help create more secure communities.
Prior to his election as Commissioner, he was Cabinet Member at Essex County Council with responsibility for Community Safety; Deputy Leader of Brentwood Borough Council; and has 33 years’ experience as a senior investment banker.

Matt Jukes was appointed Chief Constable of South Wales Police in January 2018.
Matt joined South Yorkshire Police in 1995 before going on to work in a number of roles, principally as a detective.
He worked for the forerunner of the National Counter Terrorism Policing network and Matt remains involved strategically in counter terrorism.
In 2006 Matt returned to local policing as a divisional Chief Superintendent in the former coalfields and industrial areas of South Yorkshire.
He joined South Wales Police as an Assistant Chief Constable in 2010 and was appointed Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) in August 2013 where he had the task of leading a change programme. A focus on local policing and a rigorous programme of back-office reform has supported one of the smallest front-line reductions in the UK and South Wales Police was recently assessed as the most visible force in England and Wales.
Matt is a member of the Prince’s Trust Advisory Council in Wales and has a leading role in work with Public Health Wales on tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences. He leads on the recruitment, retention and well-being of investigators for the National Police Chiefs’ Council and is chair of Police Sport UK.
Matt was awarded a Queens Police Medal in the New Year Honours List 2018.

Senior Economics Commentator for the Observer who was previously with the Financial Times, Daily Mail and News Chronicle. He also worked in the Economics Intelligence Department at the Bank of England and is now a visiting Professor of Economic History at the Strand Group, King’s College, London.
Author of books including Mrs Thatcher’s Economics Experiment, The Spectre of Capitalism and Saving the World? Gordon Brown reconsidered (2012) and Mr Lawson’s Gamble and Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment.
Since 1998 a governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

Rebecca is a public sector leader who carved her career in the Treasury before moving on to leadership roles closer to the sharp end of delivery. She specialises in building teams and organisations whose subject areas are in the centre of the public gaze: Europe at the launch of the euro; health spending in the early 2000s; climate change policy at the time of the Stern review and the UK Climate Change Act in 2005, counter-terrorism after 7/7 and now policing and crime in London, making a reality of the Mayor's new powers to oversee the Met Police and invest in services which support victims and reduce offending.
Versatile across both public and private sectors, with skills from a formative early spell in the banking sector, she uses her roles on boards or as SROs of programmes to drive change, across a wide range of areas including:
- sustainable change in the European Investment Bank, during her time as a director on its board;
- digital security, as founder and Chair of the London Digital Security Centre
- director of Police Crime Prevention Initiatives
- Senior Responsible Officer for Child House, where, for the first time in the UK, medical, advocacy, social care, police and therapy services will be available for children under one roof, so that children will quickly receive the support to rebuild their lives after abuse.
She is a passionate advocate of volunteering, setting up a parent's group to support the establishment of a local school in Hammersmith and becoming its first community governor, and has built partnerships across West London to bring young people from all backgrounds into politics and public life.

Karyn worked in the police for 22 years in Sussex, Lancashire, West Mercia, Strathclyde and Police Scotland. In 2016 Karyn took up the post of Chief Executive for Community Justice Scotland.
In 2004 Karyn and John Carnochan set up the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit which addressed violence as a public health problem in Scotland. They developed injury surveillance, gang intervention and gang exit, and focused on preventing knife carrying, injury and passionate advocates of early years support and the role of trauma. She helps support Medics Against Violence charity in Scotland, set up in conjunction with the Violence Reduction Unit.
Karyn trained as a registered nurse, has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Psychology and is a fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health. She received Honorary Doctorate from University of Glasgow for work on prevention of violence and an Honorary Masters from the Open University. She was presented with the Presidents Medal from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2018 for work on violence prevention and the Saltire award. She has worked in a variety of areas within the NHS, East Africa and HM Prisons. She has published work on Armed Robbery teams, Alcohol and Violence Interventions in a clinical setting and Violence Reduction.
She is a board member of Simon Community Scotland tackling homelessness and is on the Board of the Scottish Professional Football League.

After completing her PhD in Neuroscience, Karen’s career took a new direction when she joined Devon & Cornwall Police leading a small team of strategic analysts. After 15 years in analysis and performance management with both the police and the PCC for Devon & Cornwall she joined Lincolnshire Police to provide support to them in increasing efficiency and effectiveness. She is a member of the NPCC Performance Management Co-ordination Committee and leads work on their behalf to develop a service-wide understanding of demand on policing. More recently she has been seconded to the joint Home Office/NPCC/APCC Spending Review team to represent the service on the demand workstream.

Sir Denis O’Connor is a lecturer and advisor at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of the College of Policing.
He was Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary between 2009 - 12. Prior to joining the Inspectorate in 2004, he was Chief Constable of Surrey between 2000 and 2004.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Southampton University and an MSc in Social Policy from the Cranfield Institute of Technology.
In 2011, he was awarded a place in George Mason University’s ‘Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame’. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Wolverhampton University in September 2012.
As Chief Constable he led the piloting of the National Reassurance Policing Programme, the pre-cursor to Neighbourhood Policing.
At the Inspectorate his team provided support to the Olympics Programme in testing the Olympic assurance process. He introduced Value for Money profiles for all police forces in England and Wales in 2008/9 to assist comparisons to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness during austerity. This has been followed by a series of studies to track police availability (2010) and the preparedness of police forces and authorities for the austerity spending period (2011,2012); police relationships with the media and other parties (2011).
He has also contributed to the Scarman Inquiry (1981, the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (1999), and the Leveson Inquiry (2012).
He received the Queens Police Medal for distinguished service in 1996, CBE in 2002, and knighted in 2010.

Stephen Otter is a Cityforum Associate and a non-executive director on the board of the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust and the award-winning Exeter based company called Pluss, which supports disabled and disadvantaged people into employment.
From 2012 to May 2016, Stephen was one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary, responsible for inspecting policing and law enforcement in areas which included the Metropolitan Police, National Crime Agency, and counter terrorism policing. Prior to this, he was the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, where he combined leading the 6,000-strong police force with being the national lead on equality, diversity and human rights for the Association of Chief Police Officers.
In 2008, Stephen was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal. He holds a Criminal Justice Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Criminology from Cambridge University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Arts.

Lynne Owens took up post as the Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in January 2016 following a 27-year career as a police officer.
Lynne joined the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 1989 and later moved to Kent Police as a Sergeant where she rose to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector and Senior Investigating Officer.
Lynne transferred to Surrey Police in 2002 and subsequently became Assistant Chief Constable. She was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2008, Lynne became temporary Deputy Chief Constable before moving back to the MPS as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner in 2009.
Lynne returned to Surrey Police in 2012 following her appointment as Chief Constable and in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours was awarded the CBE for services to policing and criminal justice.

Charles Raab is Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh; co-Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP); co-Chair, Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing (IDEPP; Fellow, Alan Turing Institute and member, ATI Data Ethics Group; Member, Europol Data Protection Experts’ Network. Research on privacy, data protection, surveillance, regulation, ‘smart’ environments, identification, security, democracy, data ethics. Publications include The Governance of Privacy (2003; 2006); Protecting Information Privacy (2011); A Report on the Surveillance Society (2006); Video Surveillance (2012); Policing the European Union (1995). Evidence to UK parliamentary committees (e.g., Intelligence and Security Committee, 2014); Specialist Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Committee for inquiry, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, HL Paper 18, Session 2008-09. Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts.

Noel Sharkey is Emeritus Professor of AI and Robotics University of Sheffield, co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (http://responsiblerobotics.org) and chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (http://icrac.net). He has worked in AI/robotics/machine learning and related for 4 decades in the US (Stanford, Yale) and UK (Essex, Exeter, Sheffield). Noel writes for academic journals, national newspapers and magazines and frequently appears in news media and popular tech TV like BBC Robot Wars (20 series). His research since 2006 has focused on ethical/legal/human rights issues in AI and robot applications in areas such as the military, child care, care of the elderly, policing, autonomous transport, robot crime, medicine/surgery, border control, sex, civil surveillance and algorithmic gender and race bias. He currently works on advocacy at European parliaments and the UN.

Kriti Sharma is an Artificial Intelligence technologist and a leading global voice on AI ethics and its impact on society. In addition to advising global businesses on AI, she focuses on AI for Social Good. She built her first robot at the age of 15 in India and has been building AI technologies to solve global issues ever since, from productivity to education to domestic violence. Kriti was recently named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for advancements in AI and was included in the Recode 100 list of key influencers in technology in 2017.

Sara Thornton is the first Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council.
Sara joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1986 and over the next fifteen years her career alternated between operational postings in West London and strategic roles within New Scotland Yard. She served with Thames Valley Police as Assistant Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and Acting Chief Constable before holding the role of Chief Constable for eight years until March 2015. She has also been Chair of ACPO Intelligence Portfolio, Vice-Chair of ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters, Director of the Police National Assessment Centre and ACPO Vice-President.
Sara is a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Advisory Board for the Oxford University Centre for Criminology and the International Advisory Board for the Cambridge Executive Police Programme. She is a graduate of Durham University, also holding a Master of Studies (MSt) degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management from Cambridge University alongside honorary doctorates from Oxford Brookes University and Buckinghamshire New University.
Sara was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2006 and made a Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 2011. She has also been recognised with a Career Achievement Award from the Police Training Authority Trustees and the Sir Robert Peel Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Evidence-Based Policing.

Robert Vassoyan, Chief Commercial Officer of Atos since March 2018, is a member of the Atos Group Executive Committee.
After his graduation from French business school ESSEC, and various positions in the IT industry (Compaq as marketing and sales director France, HP as head of alliance, MEA and France services sales) Robert joined Cisco in 2007 as Sales Director in charge of the French Small & Medium Businesses market and member the Executive Committee, before being promoted Managing Director for the Large Accounts a year later. He was then appointed President of Cisco France in August 2011. Robert has been elected President of AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce in France) in February 2016. He is also a board member of CESI (Center for Higher Education Industry). Robert is 50 years old, married with three children.