Management
Line-Up for Norfolk
The
senior police officers who will lead Norfolk's New County Delivery Unit
next Spring have been announced by Chief Constable Ian McPherson.
The Chief Superintendents and Superintendents, who will take up their
key posts in the restructured Force from April, were each notified personally
by the Chief Constable of their appointments on Friday 7th December.
It marks the first phase of a three to five year programme to introduce
a new way of policing in Norfolk which will see a greater investment in
front-line resources and an emphasis on local needs.
As announced last month, the Norfolk model for policing will remove the
current three geographical policing areas and replace them with a single
County Delivery Unit.
Chief Supt Tony Cherington, presently policing commander for the Western
area, has been selected to head up the new unit.
Announcing the new appointments, Mr McPherson said: 'Chief Supt Cherington,
I believe, has the right blend of skills, abilities and experience to
lead one of the largest territorial policing areas in the country. It
will be an exciting personal and professional challenge.
'He will be well supported by his operational colleagues, Chief Supt Bob
Scully who takes the CDC & Partnerships role and Chief Supt Julian
Blazeby, who is promoted on confirmation of his continued leadership of
Protective Services.'
'I am confident that we have a strong team going forward – the right
people in the right places. With colleagues, they will work towards achieving
our vision of creating a new model for policing that delivers an excellent
local service to the people of Norfolk.'
The new County Delivery Unit will comprise seven districts and 52 Safer
Neighbourhood Teams, led by 32 geographically based inspectors. They will
be overseen by seven Superintendants as follows:
* King's Lynn - Supt Nick Dean
* Great Yarmouth - Supt Jo Parrett
* Norwich - Supt Sarah Francis
* Breckland - Supt Jim Smerdon
* Broadland - Supt Bernie Cartwright
North and South Norfolk appointments will be announced in the New Year.
Chief Supt Cherington said: 'I'm delighted and honoured to have been selected
for this important role and am looking forward to the challenge it presents.
'With my colleagues, I intend to deliver a first-class, locally-based
policing service that listens and is responsive to the community it serves.'
Background information:
The Norfolk Policing Model will be introduced over the next three
to five years and will initially see the creation of a County Delivery
Unit.
It follows a root and branch review of the Force which concluded that
an improved service could be delivered across the county if the bureaucracy
and duplication associated with the three geographical areas could be
reduced.
The modernisation programme will see an investment in frontline policing,
putting neighbourhood policing at the forefront of what the Force does
and make the Constabulary a more customer-led organisation.
Terrorist
Coordinator
Appointed John
McDowall has been appointed as Deputy Assistant Commissioner to the MPS,
and to the crucial post of National Coordinator of Terrorist Investigations.
Ken Jones, ACPO President said:
‘Following on from Peter Clarke, this appointment provides vital continuity and sends a strong signal of confirmation that our determination to confront the threat posed by terrorism will not be interrupted or diminished. John's leadership, experience and knowledge of the enduring threat posed by terrorism will ensure that the business of protecting the public continues to be served by officers of the highest calibre.’
ACC
takes up Euro Policing Post
Maureen
Brown, the Assistant Chief Constable of Central Scotland Police, is to
leave the force to take up a prestigious European policing post.
Miss
Brown will take up the role of Police Advisor to the Council of the European
Union, which is based in Brussels. She will leave Central Scotland Police
early in the New Year.
The post will assist in the UK's strategic influence within the international
arena with policing activity taking place in locations around the world.
Miss Brown, who originally comes from Aberdeenshire, joined Central Scotland
Police in December 2005 after serving with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
in England on secondment from Grampian Police. She joined the police service
in 1978 as a Cadet.
She was the officer in charge of Operation Niche, which resulted in the
conviction of Mohammed Atif Siddique for terrorism offences.
Chief Constable Andrew Cameron said: ‘Maureen Brown has contributed
a great deal to this force in the time she has served with us. She has
given energy and commitment during a challenging period and led the Operation
Niche inquiry with integrity and determination. I wish her well in her
new position.’
Miss Brown said: ‘I am delighted to be taking up this opportunity
which involves dealing with some very complex policing issues on a global
basis. I have enjoyed working with Central Scotland Police and would like
to thank everyone in the Force for making me welcome and for their loyalty
and dedication over the past two years.’
ACPO
has announced that Steve Green, Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police,
is to take over as head of the ACPO roads policing business area.
Mr Green, who has worked on roads policing for ACPO since 1998, takes
over the lead for this business area with immediate effect and will continue
in the role until his retirement in June 2008.
Mr Green said: ‘Roads, be they motorways or country lanes, are the
arteries of modern life. Our commercial life depends on the cargo transported
on them to every corner of the country.'
'But the most precious cargo is people – and we have a duty of care to protect and preserve life. It is a duty I take seriously. As I am retiring in June next year, I see my role as maintaining a steady course with the highly effective ACPO work already in progress.’
New
ACC for Lothian and Borders
Chief
Superintendent Bill Skelly (40 years) has been appointed Assistant Chief
Constable of Lothian and Borders Police.
Councillor Iain Whyte, Convener of the Lothian and Borders Police Board,
made the announcement, after a selection process in which five senior
officers were considered for the post.
Ch Supt Skelly joined Lothian and Borders Police in March 1990 and is
currently Divisional Commander for West Lothian. He will succeed ACC Ian
Dickinson who will leave after six years with the Force.
Chief Constable David Strang welcomed the appointment. He said: ‘I
am delighted that Bill Skelly was successful in his application for the
post of Assistant Chief Constable and I look forward to him joining the
team leading the Force.
‘Next year will be an important one for Lothian and Borders Police
and I look forward to the important contribution he will make to the Force.’
Ch Supt Bill Skelly grew up in the Angus village of Auchterhouse near
Dundee. In 1984, he moved to Edinburgh and spent the next four years studying
Mathematics and Physics and representing the University at volleyball
and martial arts.
He joined Lothian and Borders Police in 1990 and his first five years
were predominantly based in the west of Edinburgh. After selection for
the Accelerated Promotion Scheme in 1995, he spent the next six years
in various plain clothes and uniformed roles across the Force and beyond.
During this period, he also completed an MBA. At the end of the scheme,
he returned to Wester Hailes as Chief Inspector and shortly thereafter,
Superintendent.
In 2003, he was appointed as a Staff Officer with HMIC in Edinburgh and
in 2004, he took part in the Strategic Command Course and graduated from
Cambridge with a Diploma in Criminology.
In February 2005, he was seconded to New Scotland Yard leading the Immigration
Crime Team within the Met's Covert Policing Branch. This was followed
by nine months leading the national operational campaign targeting criminals
involved in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.
He returned to Lothian and Borders Police in August 2006 and was appointed
as the Divisional Commander for West Lothian. He has served there twice
before: in 1997 as a Sergeant in Roads Policing; and in 1999 as an Inspector
in Livingston.
A
Warwickshire Police Officer is to spend a month in East Africa as part
of an international policing team.
Superintendent
Chris Lewis, who heads the training department at Warwickshire Police,
has been invited to join the group in Rwanda to deliver a development
programme for a number of senior East African police officers.
The course has been organised by the International Faculty of the National
Police Improvement Agency, based at Bramshill in Hampshire. Supt Lewis
is the only officer to join the team directly from a county force. He
will join four members of staff from the International Faculty at Bramshill.
The International Faculty has previously run courses for senior overseas
police officers at Bramshill, but has now developed a programme of courses
in other countries. A previous course was held in Trinidad, and the course
which Supt Lewis will be taking part in Rwanda, will be the inaugural
course for police forces in East Africa.
Supt Lewis explained how the invite to came about, ‘The International
Faculty at Bramshill had become aware of the leadership initiatives we
have developed at Warwickshire Police and an invite was extended to the
Head of the Department to join the course.’
Supt Lewis will be joining the last four weeks of the six week course
at Police Headquarters in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. While there he
will be involved in presenting development modules in Police Operations,
the Use of Intelligence in Policing and Leadership and Command.
‘The British Police service is held in very high esteem throughout
the world. It is a very positive approach by the Rwandan authorities to
invite the International Faculty to their country and demonstrates their
desire to move towards peace, stability and democracy.
‘They are trying to build a stable and safe community after the troubles
in the mid 1990s. They have come a long way in a short time and are very
keen to foster partnership arrangements with the UK.’
In addition to teaching senior police officers from Rwanda the course
will also have police delegates from other East African countries including
Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi.
‘Being involved in this development programme will also provide great
benefits for Warwickshire Police. This is a valuable opportunity to learn
about other police forces in a global context as well as enabling Warwickshire
Police to be instrumental in the development of overseas policing. ‘
said Supt Lewis.
Supt Lewis left England for Rwanda on Friday 16th November and joined
the development course in Kigali on November 19th.
Niche
Technology has announced the appointment of Mark Pond as UK Customer Support
Manager.
Mark, who has 25 years experience as a police officer with both Cheshire
Constabulary and the Metropolitan Police Service, will work with Niche
customers in the UK to ensure they are using Niche Records Management
System (RMS) to its full capability.
'I look forward to taking up this challenging role and assisting forces
in their implementation and use of Niche RMS, particularly at this time
of exciting growth at Niche Technology,' says Mark.
Niche supplies 25% of the UK’s police forces with Niche RMS, a single
unified system supporting all operational policing needs. Niche RMS is
an approved system in the government-led initiative to join up all criminal
justice agencies through the Criminal Justice Extranet. Niche worked with
its UK customers to deliver the requirements on time and to the exacting
standards set by central government agencies.
The company’s support and development of customers’ mobile data
strategies, which allow beat officers to access and input RMS data, has
proved valuable to forces such as North Wales Police, who report a 10%
increase in front line patrol time. This work has aligned North Wales
Police with the theme of HM Inspector of Constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan's
interim report on policing, which calls for more effective use of technology,
in particular to support front line staff accessing critical operational
information.
As Niche RMS evolves, Niche is building its support resources, bringing
on experienced police personnel like Mark who can help services exploit
the system’s capabilities, share best practices and ideas, and ensure
they maximize their return on investment.
'Over the past four years Niche has become the market leader in the UK
for large operational policing systems,' says John James, Director of
Operations and Business Development for Niche Technology Inc.
'With Mark joining the team at Niche he will be the key contact for our
customers and we are delighted to have him on board.'
Niche Technology continues to develop Niche RMS, with the next major release
becoming available in the UK by the end of 2007. The release will offer
additional capabilities, including an enhanced interface to the Police
National Computer (PNC).
About Niche Technology and Niche RMS
Niche Technology is a privately owned Canadian company specialising in
law enforcement software. Niche Records Management System (RMS) is the
only unified police information management system on the market and is
used by over 80,000 sworn officers in 96 agencies worldwide. Niche’s
commercial-off-the-shelf solution (COTS) streamlines all aspects of operational
policing, providing effective and efficient solutions for law enforcement
agencies. Niche RMS is currently used by nearly 50% of all Canadian Police
officers, including Canada’s federal police agency the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, nearly 25% of all UK police officers including the Police
Service of Northern Ireland, and Australia’s Queensland Police Service.
Web: http://www.nicherms.com
Wiltshire
Police Authority has announced that Brian Moore has been appointed as
the new Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police.
Mr Moore, 48, is currently Deputy Chief Constable with Surrey Police.
Joining the police service in 1975 he has served with Lancashire Constabulary
and the Metropolitan Police Service as well as Surrey Police. It is expected
that he will take up his new post in Wiltshire with effect from 1st January
2008.
Speaking shortly after his appointment, Brian Moore said:
‘Wiltshire Police is a force that is already on the way back up.
It is very interesting for me as Wiltshire has long vied with Surrey for
the position of the safest county in England. It is the firm intent of
my new colleagues and myself to have this Force back where it belongs
as soon as we can.’
Commenting on the new Chief Constable’s appointment, Chairman of
Wiltshire Police Authority, Christopher Hoare said:
‘Brian Moore’s appointment as Wiltshire’s new Chief Constable
comes at an important time for our Force as it works to complete its recent
reorganisation and so realise the benefits to the public which the changes
were designed to deliver.’
Suffolk
Police Authority has appointed Jacqui Cheer as the new Deputy Chief Constable
of Suffolk Police.
Mrs Cheer joined Suffolk in July 2006 as the Assistant Chief Constable
and earlier this year was made the Temporary Deputy Chief Constable.
Speaking about her appointment, Mrs Cheer said: ‘I am delighted and
extremely proud to become the Deputy Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary.
There are challenging times ahead, but I hope I will play a lead role
in developing policing in Suffolk for the future, helping to provide a
first class service to its communities.’
Prior to joining Suffolk Police in 2006, Mrs Cheer worked within the Home
Office’s Reform Unit.
During her 22 years of service, all within Essex Police, Mrs Cheer gained
operational experience of counter-terrorist policing, policing large public
events, and working with a range of partners to reduce crime, detect more
offences, and minimise anti-social behaviour.
As Deputy Chief Constable, her portfolio includes the Protective Services
Department, which includes Crime Management and Operations, Human Resources,
Strategic Options and Policing and Professional Standards.
Mrs Cheer is married and currently lives in North Essex