Justice and Emergency Services Council

Caroline has over 20 years of investigative and operational experience, previously working at a senior level across the UK’s national security, law enforcement and defence apparatus. Latterly, as a UK Government digital transformation lead, Caroline has been increasingly focussed on the ensuring the security, legal compliance and ethical aspects associated with the handling of sensitive data. With a strong, demonstrable track record of building productive and enduring partnerships with a range of senior stakeholders across public, private and third sectors at home and abroad, she is highly experienced in forming and successfully leading multifunctional, multiagency teams to ensure secure, timely and compliant delivery of objectives. Having recently moved to SAS in a consultancy role, Caroline is using her former public sector experience to exert thought leadership and mobilise her broad network of contacts to build multi-layered public-private collaborations around complex, cross-cutting global issues such as countering child sexual exploitation, fraud and cyber crime. In addition, Caroline currently holds a number of non-exec and advisory roles including: The National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG) as a National Ambassador; tech UK’s Justice and Emergency Services Management Committee (JESMC); Space Aye advisory board member; Police Scotland’s Sex Equality and Tackling Misogyny (SETM) as a critical friend.

Lizzie has been working across Central Government for the last 10 years, working to support government around spend and investment optimisation, Cyber services, Quality Assurance and Governance Testing, with a committed focus also on delivering Social Value outcomes that reduce reoffending rates.

Adrian Leer is Managing Director of Triad Group Plc, a trusted delivery partner for UK Government and law enforcement organisations. Adrian’s role within JESMC includes leading the sub-group focused on demystifying procurement for buyers and suppliers alike.

James Reid is the Vice Chair of the AI sub-group which reports to JESMC and Vice President Consulting Services for CGI. For the past 18 years he has focused on resolving high profile and complex problems for a range of stakeholders across the criminal justice sector by overseeing delivery of strategic IT and business change which has seen him work with the NPIA, Home Office, national police agencies, CPS, and MOJ. James is passionate about the ethical use of AI technologies across the criminal justice sector in order to solve some of the key issues being faced today, to promote more inter-operability between the different organisations across the sector, and to enable it to help all stakeholders improve the outcomes they achieve.