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ICVA Executive Committee

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Mr John Littlechild
CHAIR / WALES

John joined the South Wales Police Authority in 1989 and is its longest serving member. He is an active member of the Cardiff Magistrates Bench in his home town.
Actively involved in numerous voluntary bodies, John was a prison visitor at Cardiff Prison for 25 years and the youngest ever chairman of the National Association of Prison Visitors from 1981-1983.

John is the chair of the Personnel and Human Resources Committee and of the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan custody visitors. He also represents the Police Authorities of Wales on the executive committee.

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Kath Allaway
NORTH EAST

Kath is Head of Corporate Support at Cleveland Police Authority.

She has worked with the police service for 23 years and spent the last five with the police authority, where her responsibilities included administration of the independent custody visiting scheme.

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Rev. Peter Beaman
MERSEYSIDE POLICE AUTHORITY

Peter Beaman is currently Chairman of the Merseyside panel of custody visitors.
As an experienced visitor, he has an input into the recruitment and training of custody visitors and assists with the training of custody officers and assistants.

He is a member of the Joint Improvement Group for call handling within the Force area, and chairs the Police Link Clergy Advisory Group.

A minister of the United Reformed Church in Blackburn and Liverpool, he has been involved in many aspects of community life including education, health and hospital chaplaincy. He also served on the Board of Visitors of HMP Liverpool, HM Thorn Cross Youth Offenders Institution and HMP Altcourse.

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Patricia McCarron
SCOTLAND

Patricia McCarron is a full time scheme administrator for Strathclyde Joint Police Board, the largest scheme in Scotland.

She has worked with the joint board office for three years on a full time basis and her duties involve recruiting new members and maintenance of the scheme on a day to day basis.

Patricia has past experience in large recruitment campaigns, such as children’s panel membership (exclusive to Scotland) and has been involved in similar projects such as maintaining membership, organising events and training.

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Ken London
SOUTH EAST 1

Member of Kent Police Authority since April 1999.  Member of the Complaints Committee from April 1999, Chairman of the Committee (re-named Professional Standards) since July 2005.

Took early retirement from Local Government in 1994 from a Civil Engineering career specialising in traffic engineering and management. 

A Magistrate since 1982.  Now dealing with Family Courts.  Was instrumental in steering through a bench policy aimed at a common objective in regular court licensing business and has lectured at courses on the role of the Licensing magistrate and Licensing Court procedures.

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Kathie Emery
VICE CHAIR / SOUTH WEST

Kathy was appointed to Dorset Police Authority in 1995 as an independent member, with lay visiting as one of her first duties. She became president of the then lay visiting committee, though continued visiting and remains chairman 10 years later.

Kathie is also a board member of Dorset Crimestoppers.She and her husband run a small engineering company in Bournemouth, which mainly makes components for the aircraft industry.

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Christine McGawley JP
GREATER MANCHESTER

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Ms Kerry McClelland
METROPOLITAN

Kerry McClelland works for the MPA as the Independent Custody Visiting Scheme Manager. She manages a team of ICV Co-ordinators, who are responsible for the day to day running of the scheme and providing practical support to approximately 450 ICVs organised in to 32 London Panels.

Prior to joining the MPA in November 2005, Kerry worked for a number of organisations including Southwark Council, managing work around Business Improvement Districts, Community Service Volunteers and the Citizen's Advice Bureau.

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David Hudson
CENTRAL 3

David was appointed as a member of ICVA’s executive committee in December 2005. As a visiting panel member for nine years and panel coordinator for seven years, he represents Staffordshire Police Authority at ICVA’s AGM, national and regional conferences.

As well as facilitating local conferences, David organises visits to a mobile unit at music festivals and other occasions, and attends events and trials of the latest drug detection in custody.

Over the past five years he facilitated at the Staffordshire Police Training School in both initial and refresher training for most of Staffordshire’s new ICVs.

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Meirion Jones
WALES

I have been a custody visitor for a number of years. At present I am coordinator for the Western Area for North Wales Police Authority. This is my second year as representative on the icva executive committee.

It is a large geographic area of approximately 100 miles from one custody suite at the northern most part to the southern most custody suite. Although primarily a rural area we do have the very busy port of Holyhead within our catchment area.

I am married to Sara and have two boys, Dafydd and Aled. We live in the heart of Snowdonia, with outstanding views of the mountains, including Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales.

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Sadie Logan
NORTHERN IRELAND

I was involved in my local church for many years and through that I
became interested in community work in my own area.
 
I became involved with the community police liaison committee for several years, where I had the role of chairperson.  I moved on to become a Independent Custody Visitor and have been doing that for 4 years, two of which I served a chairperson. 

I am also a member of the independent monitoring board at Hydebank Prison, which houses males up to 21 years of age and females of all ages.  I find this work very rewarding and gain a lot of satisfaction from it.

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Mr Malcolm Hardy
NORTHUMBRIA POLICE AUTHORITY

Malcolm MacDonald Hardy (better known as Mac).  A former Local Government Manager until retirement at Christmas 2005.  Married with 4 grown up Children and a proud Grandfather.  Involved in many voluntary agencies in a range of capacities ranging from Director, Vice Chairman and general Committee member.  An Animal Lover who spends a great deal of time walking with my dog and assisting animal charities.  An 'Independant Custody Visitor' for the past 5 years and Co-ordinator of the Sunderland and South Tyneside Panel for the past 4.
 
Took over as Representative of The Northumbria Police Authority from John Mair onto the ICVA National Executive effective from December 2006.

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Angela Perry (from 2.12.2006)
CENTRAL 2

Pic and biog to follow.

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Robin Cherney
SOUTH EAST 2

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Brian Pirie
SCOTLAND

Brian is clerk to the police board and scheme administrator in Edinburgh.

He helped establish Central Scotland Joint Board’s custody visiting scheme in 2000 and the Lothian & Borders police board’s scheme in 2001. In addition, Brian has run ICVA’s Scottish office and been a member of the executive committee since 2003.

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Janet Spencer
WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE AUTHORITY

Janet is chief executive of a housing organisation offering supported accommodation to vulnerable people across the city of Leeds. She formerly worked in the Youth Justice System, employed to develop and manage a Bail Support Scheme for Adolescent Offenders. She has experience of working within a social service and probation setting.

Janet sees her role as an independent member of the police authority as offering the opportunity to effectively represent and serve the people living in West Yorkshire and also to take a full and active part within society.

Janet has a keen interest in people as individuals and as members of communities. She enjoys working equally both at strategic level with policy and procedures, and face-to-face community consultation and engagement. She is committed to partnership working in order to maximise resources and improve services to the benefit of local communities.

She has a BA in Philosophy, a Diploma in Social Work and a Masters Degree specialising in Criminal Offending Behaviour.

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David Wood
CENTRAL 1

David Wood lives in a small village in Suffolk just outside Ipswich. Married to Rita with two children, Simon & Helen (now resident in New Zealand) and two grandchildren. He served in Suffolk Fire Service for 34 years, retiring in 2000.

Babergh District Councillor since 1997
Suffolk County Councillor since 2000.
Tattingstoke Parish Councillor for 25 years
Member of Suffolk Police Authority since 2000 and currently vice-chair and lead member for Custody and Race & Diversity.

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Martin Davis
METROLPOLITAN

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Brendan Connor
WEST MIDLANDS

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