Expert Details
Preventing & Managing Work-related Violence within Police Service, Prison Service, Security, Care Settings, Education
ID: 727710
United Kingdom
Expert is an active Board member of the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM), who were established with the support of the Health & Safety Executive in 1997 and fully incorporated as a national body in 2000. The ICM act as the Secretariat to the All Party Paliamentary Group on Work-related Violence and Bullying for the House of Commons. In 2003 the HSE funded the ICM to set national training standards to provide trainers with a structured accreditation and CPD process. This was followed by the introduction of the ICM Quality Award Centre (QAC) process which allows training providers the opportunity to provide evidence of compliance with the Department of Health (DoH) 2014 document: Positive and Proactive Care – reducing the need for Restrictive Interventions, and NICE Guidance: the Short term management of disturbed/violent behavior. The DoH 2014 document references the ICM quality awards standards!
As an expert witness Expert continues to provide advice, support and guidance to numerous organisations and bodies relating to the use of force, physical interventions including the use of personal protective equipment. He has been instructed in numerous cases regarding restraint related injuries and/or deaths, involving incidents relating to the Police Service, Prison Service, Scottish Police Service, Scottish Prison Service, Security Industry Authority, Home Office, Young Offenders Secure Institutions, Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC); now the Independent Office for Police Complaints (IOPC), Health & Social Care and across other work-related sectors.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1994 | Degree: | Subject: Police Personal Safety Protection | Institution: Home Office |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1994 to 2013 | Employer: Kent Police | Title: Training Manager | Department: Training Division |
Responsibilities:Responsible for the policy, procedures and delivery of police personal safety training, along with First Aid, Health & Safety |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2015 | Employer: KENT POLICE | Title: Positive Action Lead | Department: Equality and Diversity |
Responsibilities:Promote equality, diversity and inclusion across Kent and Essex Police. Raise, address and support issues of unfairness and promote and encourage equality of opportunity for all. Increase recruitment, retention, development and progression of minority ethnic personnel (i.e.; across all protected characteristics) in line with the Equalities Act |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1998 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Promoting good practice procedures in the enhancement of safety and the prevention of violence and aggression within the workplace and community, through education and training. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2018 | Employer: Self employed | Title: Training Consultant | Department: Training and Education |
Responsibilities:Consultant on significant projects/ operations, providing high quality advice and guidance on training strategies, policies, systems, programmes and priorities, training and occupational standards, accreditation requirements and legislative and regulatory impacts, in order to ensure a continuously high standard of training delivery. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Institute of Conflict Management, Member of the Police National Practitioners Group |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Training Manager (Head of Profession) - Police Personal Safety Protection |
Fields of Expertise
occupant restraint system, prison standard, prison death, police misconduct, police practice, training procedure, technical training, personal training, in-house training, employee training, alternative dispute resolution training, health care policy, control equipment, expert witness, force, law enforcement, law enforcement tactic, law enforcement technology, law enforcement training, physical fitness, physical reinforcement, physical restraint, physical security, police brutality, safety training, training, use of force, environmental risk management, police weapon, injury law, personal injury investigation, Occupational Safety and Health Act, risk management