Today I worked from @glos-police.bsky.social
Specialist Operations centre, watching Taser training, visiting the armoury, specialist collision investigation team, our drone & firearms teams. I also visited the dog section & a rather scary furry friend.
Great day with enthusiastic officers & staff!
It is with great sadness I share this update about the Gloucestershire Constabulary family following a fatal fire in Stroud. It has been a truly heartbreaking few days and we are sending all our love to our colleague.
www.gloucestershire.police.uk/news/glouces...
#GoingEquipped is out today!
This 11th edition is dedicated to the lovely Dr Jo Wilkinson who sadly died earlier this year.
Please do have a read online & look out for paper copies coming to a police station near you!
www.college.police.uk/article/goin...
Lovely afternoon at the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire's summer party at Highnam Court.
⚜️Julie Kent MBE⚜️ gave a wonderful speech & the band of the @glos-police.bsky.social kept everyone's spirits up despite the rain!
It was great to meet Timothy Brain, former Chief Constable too.
Great to talk to our @glos-police.bsky.social cadets this evening about Non contact sexual offences & the @ThamesVP 'it does matter' campaign, our work with the Internet Watch Foundation on sharing of indecent images & the work I'm doing with @ruthweir.bsky.social on Teenage Relationship Abuse.
Today I had the privilege of representing @glos-police.bsky.social at the UK Police Memorial tribute to the 300 men & women from policing who died protecting the home front during the Second World War.
A poignant afternoon hosted by Airbus Helicopters:
ukpolicememorial.org/news/commemo...
Just out: UK Parliament research briefing on violence against women and girls in schools & among children & young people.
@ruthweir.bsky.social
Kimberly Cullen & I all contributed in relation to the work we are doing on teenage relationship violence.
post.parliament.uk/research-bri...
I then went on foot patrol around sunny Stow with PCSO John Allen, a wealth of all knowledge on all that goes on.
Thanks too to A/Inspector Philippa Moore & team for the walk welcome!
This afternoon I visited Stow on the Wold, part of the Cotswold & Stroud local policing area of Gloucestershire Constabulary.
It was lovely to meet PC Alison Palfrey who retires next week after 30 years service with the force. Thank you Alison for your service & enjoy your well deserved retirement!
Great to have an article on Teenage Relationship Violence in the GDST (The Girls' Day School Trust) in the GDST life magazine.
Really important to talk about adolescent domestic abuse & the work I'm doing with @ruthweir.bsky.social to review how policing & other agencies deal with it.
I recently got to visit @glos-police.bsky.social Archives at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub.
It was great to meet Sue Webb who runs the Police Archives together with a great bunch of volunteers.
You can find out more here:
gloucestershirepolicearchives.org.uk
This weekend I have been Gold Commander at @glos-police.bsky.social for The Royal International Air Tattoo
Working with a brilliant partnership silver command including Glos Fire and Rescue & SW Ambulance Service I am really proud of the safe & secure event we have supported.
Well done team!
Today at Gloucestershire Constabulary @glos-police.bsky.social we hosted national & local Victim Support colleagues to talk through the work of the force to support victims of crime.
Lovely to see @katiekempenvs.bsky.social & Prof Claire Collins from the national team.
Popped into The Milestone School in Gloucester this afternoon to meet Chief Exec Martin Hughes & Headteacher Stephen Dowell.
What a vibrant & inclusive school where pupils of all abilities & staff can learn and grow together. Really good to be out meeting our local communities!
milestone.sandmat.uk
Brilliant visit this morning to see the Gloucestershire Constabulary Forensics Unit.
Great to see the wide variety of work they are involved in, from fingerprints to DNA, telematics to collision investigation.
@glos-police.bsky.social
Gloucestershire Police & Crime Panel this afternoon at Shire Hall, Gloucestershire County Council
Good to meet the newly elected panel with Chief Constable Maggie Blyth & set out the national policing threats & local issues in the county.
@glos-police.bsky.social Constabulary
We then heard from the brilliant Meena Kumari & Savita V. about their work with the community in Leicestershire.
Then Candice Walker from the Home Office & Kara Kane from the Cabinet Office talked about possible government next steps to prevent this ever increasing problem.
Today was our 3rd national roundtable looking at teenage relationship abuse, also known as adolescent domestic abuse.
@ruthweir.bsky.social Weir & I talked through our place based round tables & the national police survey I am conducting.
Got a copy of the 2nd edition of an Introduction to Professional Policing today. Delighted to have a chapter on Policing vulnerability attrition, rape & domestic abuse with the brilliant Professor Emma Williams & Dr. Jennifer Norman.
Thanks to our excellent editors Dr Ian Pepper & Dr Ruth McGrath!
Great to be with the @wecops.bsky.social team for our 2nd annual conference. We are delighted to be hosted by Virgin media Media O2 Business & looking forward to a brilliant afternoon with lots of lightening talks on all sorts of topics.... just like our chats!
Fascinating overview of her journey as a forensic anthropologist - I could have listened to her all day!
We followed this with a Q&A with 6 young women from the college on their thoughts on leadership.
I'm starting one in Gloucestershire next month, get in touch if you'd like more information!
Quick trip back to the Oxfordshire Women's Leadership Network.
A privilege to be hosted by the principal of St Anne's College Helen King QPM who hosted an amazing conversation with Professor Lady Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome & President of St John's College.
Today I've been up with Northumbria Police hosting another Adolescent Domestic Abuse place based round table with Dr @ruthweir.bsky.social
It was particularly poignant to have Micala & Lee Trussler with us, the parents of 15 year old Holly Newton who was horrendously murdered by her boyfriend.
Great day out on foot patrol in and around Barton Street, Gloucester yesterday with Sergeant Bee Chant.
We visited schools, mosques, local shops & talked to so many members of the community.
#NeighbourhoodPolicing
Gloucestershire Constabulary
@glos-police.bsky.social
I've been the editor-in-chief of the brilliant #GoingEquipped magazine for 5 years! The 10th edition was published today & has great articles written by policing for policing.
Take a look online here: www.college.police.uk/article/goin...
www.linkedin.com/posts/colleg...
Great to be on @bbcpointswest this evening talking about the work I am doing on teenage relationship violence together with colleagues across @glos-police.bsky.social & @ruthweir.bsky.social
You can watch the episode here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Today was Staff Networks Day & it was great to see colleagues from across @glos-police.bsky.social meet with our networks at HQ.
I popped down this afternoon to meet the Women's Support Network, Unison, LGBTQ+ network, neurodiversity network, Gloucestershire Ethnic Minority Association & He4She.
Chief Constable Blyth & I are meeting with all Sgts & first line managers in @glos-police.bsky.social to talk through our plans. It's been great to have honest conversations about finance, culture, misconduct, investigations & performance.
I'm looking toward to what we can all deliver together.
I just listened to this @reducingcrime.com podcast with @jerryratcliffe.net & Gina V. Hawkins.
What a fantastic discussion about all sorts, but particularly about women in policing & the trials & tribulations of bringing up a family while being a senior leader. Well worth a listen!
After the amazing success of the first @wecops conference, we are now launching:
‘Policing the Future'
27 June 2025
Thank you as always to Virgin Business 02 & to Tom Gaymor for hosting again
www.wecops.uk/events/2025/...
Please sign up for free to listen to our fantastic speakers!