For what comes next: Shaping the future of justice and emergency services

Teresa Ashforth

Data Reform Programme Consultant, PSG Data Team, Home Office

Teresa has over 25 years’ experience in delivering data quality and standards programmes within both the public and private sector. Passionate that all organisations should understand and fully exploit the value and power of the data, information and knowledge that they own in order to drive better decision making, better communications and better services. 

Teresa has spent the last 18 years working in policing, 10 years as CDO for Durham Constabulary, she has worked on a number of national policing programmes and is working hard to support policing and the Home Office in adopting a quality first approach to data, building on the data pillars of quality, standards, literacy and interoperability. 

Caroline Barnett

Principal Industry Consultant | JES committee and AI sub-group, SAS (Defence, Intelligence and Law Enforcement)

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.

Tony Blaker QPM

Chief of Staff - NPCC Digital Data and Technology Co-ordinating Committee, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)

Tony retired in April 2021 as the Deputy Chief Constable of Kent Police, NPCC Lead for Courts, and as the SRO for Digital First and Video-Enabled Justice Programmes he worked with partners to deliver technology-enabled change in the Criminal Justice System (CJS). In May 2021, he was appointed as the PDS CJ Transformation SRO and led national work responding to the End-to-End Rape Review, Digital Case File Project, Video Enabled Policing Programme, Digital Forensics Programme and Digital Fingerprint Project. In November 2023 he was appointed as the Chief of Staff working to the Chair of the Digital Data and Technology Coordinating Committee of the NPCC.

Milan Bollegala

Technical Business Analyst, Police Digital Service

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Naomi Bolton

Chair of the VAWG and RASSO working group and Account Director, techUK | Telent

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Enrique Cadenas

Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser (DCSA) , UK Ministry of Justice

Enrique Cadenas serves as the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser (DCSA) at the UK Ministry of Justice. He has held a number of roles spanning policy and strategy in both the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS).

Lizzie Coleclough

Head of Central and Secure Government, Trustmarque

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Scot Dunn

Chief Information Officer, Humberside Police

Scot has over 25 years' experience within the criminal justice environment with the last 12 of these within Policing. Scot is a passionate and visionary technologist with a passion for pushing the boundaries of traditional practices.

Callum Faint

Digital Technology and Cyber Board Chair, Chief Fire Officer, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service

Callum Joined Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service in 1995 undertaking many operational and leadership roles, moving across to Leicestershire in 2019 and becoming the Chief Fire Officer in mid-2020.  Under his on-going leadership he has driven significant improvements across the Service improving operational delivery and community safety, as recognised by His Majesties Inspectorate of Constabularies, Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) as well as operationally leading the Service through a number of major incidents, including the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

In addition to leading the Service Callum also undertakes additional roles and duties, becoming the chair of the Digital, Technology and Cyber board within the National Fire Chiefs Council and recently becoming the Vice Chair of the Local Resilience Forum across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Charlotte Hails

Chair | Head of Public Sector Vertical Strategy, Justice and Emergency Services Management Committee | Virgin Media O2 Business

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Simon Hall

Chair of the Interoperability in Justice and Public Safety Forum | Founder and CEO, techUK | COEUS Software

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Claire Hammond

T/Detective Chief Superintendent, National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection

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Giles Herdale

Independent Advisor on Data Ethics in Policing

A leading voice on the development of digital investigative policy, strategy and ethics, Giles has been involved at the cutting edge of the national evolution of law enforcement thinking in this area. With experience from the NCA, NPCC, the Home Office, the College of Policing and NPIA, Giles can translate the fast-evolving technical, legislative and policy environment to the operational context to understand and address the threats and opportunities of the digital age.  He is now a freelance policy advisor working with researchers, think tanks, government and law enforcement.  He is an associate fellow at RUSI and a member of the Validate AI conference steering group. 

 

Adrian Leer

Procurement Sub-Group Lead | Managing Director, Justice and Emergency Services Management Committee | Triad Group Plc

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.

William Lyne

Head of Economic and Cybercrime – Central Specialist Crime / NPCC AI portfolio,

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Richard Meffen

Forensic Portfolio Lead, Police Digital Service

Richard Meffen has over three decades of experience in forensic science, with a distinguished background spanning both traditional and digital disciplines in this area of policing. Richard’s career includes significant tenures in leadership roles in National Programmes, Policing and the National Crime Agency (NCA), where he has played an instrumental role in shaping national forensic strategies. For the past 15 years, he has specialized in the change management of forensic services, driving transformative initiatives to modernize and enhance capabilities. Currently, he is leading the Police Digital Service’s Forensic Portfolio, which is driving digital transformation across forces, with an expert team using their deep knowledge and experience to deliver cutting-edge solutions for policing.

Clare Moseley

Senior Product Manager – Public Safety Group, Sopra Steira

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Bethan Page-Jones

Director – Strategy Capability and Resources, Public Safety Group

Bethan has spent over 15 years working in policing. As a career civil servant who has spanned spending reviews, bill management, strategy roles and private office work, she was seconded to the National Policing Improvement Agency where she headed up work on value for money in policing. Following that she spent many years in HMICFRS, inspecting police efficiency, police effectiveness and the police response to domestic abuse, returning to the Home Office to work in policing policy. Her role then was to ensure that the HO is commissioning the capabilities needed to deliver its policing, public protection and crime reduction agenda. At the end of last year, she was made Temporary Director of Strategy, Capability and Resources in Public Safety Group with responsibility for: police funding and efficiencies, commissioning of police digital data and technology including AI (and its responsible adoption), wider national police capabilities and their reform, and HO interests in criminal justice policy and major events. She is also SRO for the National ANPR programme – NSAP, and the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme – PECP, the second joint HO and Policing delivery programme she has pioneered (with the first being Delivery Landscape Reform Programme), and she also leads on the National Centre of Policing Policy and Legislation design and delivery with stand up responsibility for NCoP Transition State One.

James Reid

AI Subgroup Member | Vice President Consulting Services, Justice Sector, Justice and Emergency Services Management Committee | CGI

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.

DCI Daniel Thompson

MPS Lead Responsible Officer – RaSSO and Spiking,

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