Services

What can I offer?

  • Consultancy in the Policing Sector
  • Media Advisor
  • Public Speaking
  • Lobbyist/Campaigner

Consultancy in the Policing Sector

Coaching & Mentoring

As an experienced manager and leader of people I have a fascination and curiosity for bringing out the potential in others. I can undertake tactical and strategic mentoring coupled with emotionally intelligent coaching.

Training

I am a qualified PGCE Trainer (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) I specialise in the learning and development of new PCC’s and executive leaders, focussing especially on Continual Professional Development.

Change Management

I am experienced in successful complex programmes across sectors and divergence. I am unusual as have excellent knowledge of the “wicked tricky” problems of austerity and Government. I also have unique experience in managing a successful strategic alliance which explored a merger of 2 Forces in 2018/19.

Projects/Programmes

I am a qualified project and programme manager and have overseen large scale programmes delivered on budget and on time. Often these opportunities have been unique.

Crisis

As a former senior police officer, former PCC and national lead on several portfolio’s working with Government I have seen more than my fair share of crisis, especially in relation to the Forensic Portfolio I led for 18 months.

Media Advisor

As a person who has worked for Sky News, ITN and filmed over 30 tv programmes, I have broadened this experience as PCC with expertise in public engagement and crisis management.

Additionally, I am a national media commentator, and am available to comment on issues relating to assisted suicide, policing or PCC issues and politics.

Some examples of my national media inputs are:

Fraud

Assisted Suicide

Action Fraud

I can offer:

  • Media Crisis Management
  • Media awareness training
  • Commentary on legal and policing issues
  • Media Strategies

Public Speaking

I am an experienced public speaker, and can offer inputs on:

  • Mental Health in Policing
  • Preventing Suicide
  • Forensics, including Facial Mapping
  • Media Issues
  • Leadership
  • The Use of Force by Police, especially taser and Spit-hoods


Lobbyist/Campaigner

For eight years I have been an impressive, successful and highly influential lobbyist with a national profile.

I have a long standing and proven track record of winning change in the Government. I am currently assisting two campaigns, both in the policing space.

I have a national profile due to my overseeing the infamous Sarah Payne murder, as well as being the PCC for Dorset 2012- 2020. I have direct personal connections with many politicians and journalists. I feature regularly in the national press. [i]

My successes include;

  1. A change in the law – As the PCC national lead for Mental Health, I worked with Theresa May to alter the treatment of mentally ill people in crisis who were being taken into police custody. In 3 years, the number of people in crisis being taken to police stations went down from over 9,000 to 2000, with law change happening in 2017. [ii]
  2. A change in the law – By working with Liberty and Buzzfeed, the organisation I chair (The Independent Custody Visiting Association) forced the Government to change the treatment of female prisoners in custody, creating 6 new rights,

A new law – I campaigned for 3 years to achieve Finns Law, the new law recognising assaults on emergency services animals.

 

[ii] https://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/S136%20Data%202015%2016.pdf

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