November 2007
Annual Conference 2007
ICVA’s 2007 annual conference took place at Alton Towers Conference Centre on Saturday 17 November, kindly hosted by Staffordshire Police Authority and chaired by Mrs Christina Jebb.
An action packed agenda included the following presentations, led by a keynote speech from Neil Curtis of the Home Office.
Raising Standards and Performance in Custody
Neil Curtis - Police Powers and Protection Unit, Home Office
Protocol for ICV Visiting of Prevention of TACT Prisoners
Assistant Chief Constable Robert Taylor - Greater Manchester Police
Putting it on the Agenda
Mr Everett Henry - HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
Border & Immigration Agency – Managing Detention
Mrs Fiona Cooper - Detention Services, Home Office
Mobile Custody Facilities
Mr Joe Malloy - Staffordshire Police
The Role of Custody Nurses
Mr Ken London - Police Authority Member, Kent Police Authority
Scottish Conference
This year’s event took place at the Scottish Police College in Tulliallan and was kindly hosted by the Scottish Police Authorities and chaired by John Littlechild, following a welcome by Deputy Chief Constable John McNabb of Grampian Police.
Brian Plastow - Chief Inspector, Lothian and Borders Police and Kim Crawford - Service/Clinical Nurse Manager, NHS Lothian Forensic (Legal) Medical Service delivered the keynote speech. They highlighted the crucial role of NHS Lothian Clinical Forensic Nurses (CFNs) and the drive to extend this to improve standards of medical care to detainees and concentrate specialist medical skills of FMEs on forensic issues.
Other topics under discussion included national custody developments in Scotland and diabetes management at the forces’ main custody suite, St Leonards.