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Collaboration Chief Superintendent - Steve Ottaway
Steve has been the Programme Director of the Joint Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Collaboration Programme Head since April 2007. Prior to this he was the Head of the Operational Support Department from January 2005. Steve has retained responsibility for Firearms, Dogs and Operational Planning and is the lead for Olympic planning in Hertfordshire.
Steve has spent the whole of the 28 years of his career in Hertfordshire, a county where he was born, brought up and continues to live.
Throughout his service Steve has served in a wide variety of roles across the whole of the centre and west of the county.
Head of Estates & Facilities - Ian Potter
Ian has been Head of Estates & Facilities since 2000. Prior to this he was Head of Property Services for Leicestershire Constabulary from 1991.
Ian has responsibility for implementing the Police Authority's Public Access and Visibility Strategy, which to date has enabled an investment of £50M+ to be made within the Estate enabling a number of major stations to be replaced or adapted to meet current and future needs.
In addition he is responsible for delivering the Maintenance and Minor Capital Works Programme for the Force together with managing the Force Cleaning Contracts, Reception and Facilities functions at Headquarters.
Ian's home town is Bristol and prior to joining the Police he has worked in a number of Property roles throughout the country for various Retail and Commercial companies.
Head of Procurement & Supplies - Nick Barnes
Nick was recruited as Procurement Manager on the 4th January 2004, being formally promoted to Head of Procurement after acting up for six months.
Head of Corporate Communication - Colin Connolly
Colin has been Head of Corporate Communication at Hertfordshire Constabulary since 2001.
The department handles a wide range of communications activity including witness appeals, public information and crime prevention campaigns and the force web site. Many crimes have been detected and criminals arrested on the back of the public responding to appeals in the media or on the web site for information.
Prior to joining the Constabulary, Colin had a background in marketing, customer service and tourism and leisure management.
Head of Finance - Christopher Powell
Chris joined the Constabulary in July 2004 as Head of Finance having previously been Director of Finance & IT at the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA). He qualified as a CIPFA accountant in 1990 and has a diploma in management. Chris started his career with South xfordshire District Council in 1982 and subsequently held financial management roles at Surrey Police and Mid Beds District Council before joining GCDA in 1999 where he was a member of the Board.
Chris is married with two children and is a governor at his local village lower school. He is a member of an Athletic Club, and now enjoys country running having previously completed numerous marathons including London and Moscow. Other interests include long distance walking and the occasional social round of golf.
Head of Legal Services - Afzal Chowdhury
Afzal was appointed Head of Legal Services in September 2004. He was educated at Kingston University, the College of Law, and University College London. In 1993, he was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court. In private practice, Afzal dealt with both civil and criminal litigation. His specialisms now include advising the police, dispute resolution, risk management, employer's liability, public liability and a variety of police-related areas of law. He has been a speaker at police seminars at a national level on the issue of Witness Protection, and is on the Association of Police Lawyers' sub-committees on Civil Litigation and Practice Management.
Organisational Change Lead - Matt Nicholls
Matt joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1992 having completed a Joint Honours Economics and Management degree at Leeds University.
Working in the Metropolitan Police Service in various uniform and non uniform roles in Southall Division, Notting Hill Division and Complaints and Discipline in North West London. During this time he helped police the Notting Hill carnival on a number of occasions.
In 2001, Matt transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary on promotion to Inspector where he worked at Watford leading a team of 30 shift officers before becoming the Staff Officer to Chief Constable Paul Acres in 2003.
In 2004, Matt was promoted to Chief Inspector where, as project manager introduced the Constabulary's ''Compass'' recruit training programme for newly recruited officers before moving back to Western Area and responsibility for territorial operations. In 2006 Matt took responsibility for managing the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) for Watford where partnership working became critical to the reduction and detection of crime on the CDRP.
In 2007, Matt was promoted to Superintendent and posted to Organisational Intelligence and Development (OIDD) responsible for Organisational Change and Planning.
Since March 2009, Matt joined the Citizen Focus Team as joint leader responsible for; Public Confidence and Reassurance, Quality of Service, The Policing Pledge, Volume Crime Reduction, Information Services and Management for Police Information.
Matt now leads on organisation change management department for the Constabulary as of mid-December 2009.
Outside of work Matt enjoys running, skiing, fine wine, dining and travelling.
Head of Fleet - Sam Sloan
Sam joined Hertfordshire Constabulary as Deputy Head of Fleet in 1999. He previously held fleet management positions within British Bakeries and Strathcyle Police and was made a fellow of the institute of Car Fleet Management in 1997. In October 2002, he was promoted to the position of Head of Fleet.
Head of ICT - Keith Jameson
Keith started his career as an electrical engineering apprentice in the 1960s and graduated with a BSc honours degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering in 1972. After 3 years of being an electronic development engineer, Keith joined Northumbrian Water as a Graduate Engineer in 1975. Keith stayed with the Northumbrian Water for 19 years and was promoted several times until he was made Director of Operations for the company's IT subsidiary, iMASS.
Keith joined Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1994 as Head of Communications & IT, when the IT Department was only 25 staff and supported about 200 desk-top PC's. Today, the ICT department has grown to 85 staff, supports 3000 computers and 150 different ICT systems, reflecting the significant growth in Police IT over the corresponding period.
Keith's interests include golf, skiing, cycling, walking, football and music.
Major Crime Unit - Det. supt Michael Hanlon
Mick joined Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1985 and has spent around half of his service working in uniform and as a detective in the Western Area. The other half of his time has been spent working at Headquarters, again, in both uniform and detective roles. In 2005 he took up the post of Senior Investigating Officer leading one of the Investigative teams within Major Crime. Mick has been involved in and led a large number of serious crime investigations including stranger rape, kidnap and murder. Two high profile cases include Operation Strait - a triple murder in Bishops Stortford in 2007, and Operation Abnet - a murder where body parts were deposited across a number of counties in 2009. In August 2009 he took over as the Head of Major Crime and continues to develop the Unit in providing investigative excellence across both Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
Uniform Protective Services - Andrew Ewing
The Head of Uniform Protective Services' responsibilities includes: the joint (with Bedfordshire Police) firearms and dogs teams; all operational planning and public order training and the roads policing functions.
Citizen Focus Team
Dave Wharton
Dave joined the Citizen Focus Team as joint team leader with effect from 1st June 2009. During his 26 years service he has held a range of operational and specialist roles at senior management level including previous work in Criminal Justice, HR Workforce Planning, Contact Management, Head of Operational Support, and two spells as a Deputy Area Commander.
Dave is a long-term Hertfordshire resident, and off-duty interests include running, mountaineering and skiing.
Dogs & Firearms
Beds & Herts Joint Unit - Mark Canning
Mark joined Hertfordshire Constabulary in 2004 from the British Transport Police. He has served at the Chief Inspector Tasking & Co-ordination based at Stevenage, Chief Inspector Borough Commander for Broxbourne and as Temporary Superintendent Programme Manager for the Hertfordshire Area Reform Programme. Mark is now the Chief Inspector in charge of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Dog and Firearms Support Units.
Professional Standards - Martin Darlow
Martin joined Bedfordshire Police in 1982 and has served at every Police Station in the county. He has spent the majority of his service as a detective at all ranks. As a Superintendent Martin has served as Divisional Commander and Operations Commander at Luton, Head of Criminal Justice and Operations Commander for Specialist Operations. In 2007 he was appointed as Head of Professional Standards for Bedfordshire. On 1st April 2009 Martin was selected as the Head of the collaborated Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Professional Standards.
Criminal Justice - Owen Weatherill
Owen joined Hertfordshire Police in 1992, and has served in a variety of roles across the County.
These roles have included both uniformed and Detective duties, largely specialising upon investigation of local and community crime problems, in East Herts upto 1997, and then largely in Detective roles at all ranks within Central Area, serving at St Albans, Hatfield & Borehamwood.
He has experience of investigating and managing a wide range of crime problems and issues from community problems, through to serious crimes including Rape and Serious Assaults. In response to local crime problems, he established new teams dedicated to focussing upon series crime, particularly Burglary, Vehicle Crime and Robbery, contributing to a reduction in crime over successive years.
In 2005 Owen joined the Central Area Command team as a Chief Inspector, with responsibility for Intelligence, Crime Analysis and pro-active intelligence led operations, and later became the Detective Chief Inspector, with responsibility for all crime investigation functions for Central Area.
He is now based at Police HQ as head of the Criminal Justice Department, where he and his team work closely with partner agencies to deliver justice to victims, witnesses and communities throughout the county, by ensuring that criminal cases are successfully prosecuted. Owen also has responsibility for a range of Corporate functions for the county, which include Custody, Firearms Licensing & Prosecution file management.
Beds & Herts Scientific Services - Richard Johnson
Richard (Dick) Johnson joined the Met Police as a trainee fingerprint officer on 12th June 1972 and moved to Bedfordshire in February 1978. The majority of the rest of his service has been with Bedfordshire apart from thee years as Head of Bureau in Dyfed-Powys and a very enjoyable five year secondment to the AFRC Consortium (the forerunner of Nafis/Ident1) based in Seattle USA.
He has served as Head of Scientific Services in Bedfordshire since June 2003 and is delighted that Beds/Herts are giving him the opportunity to move the new joint unit forward. He believes this really can make a difference to the people of both counties due to the excellent track record in delivering high quality forensics.
Richard states that his Achilles heel is being a season ticket holder at Milton Keynes Dons Football Club and his real weakness is coffee, preferably Seattle Best but he will make do with Starbucks!
Director of Performance
Superintendent Simon Hawkins
Simon originally joined the Metropolitan Police in January 1987 and served for nine years at Tottenham police station performing a number of different roles, including working as a football spotter, crime squad and murder squad operations and numerous public order roles.
He then specialised on Air Support as a Police Air Observer and gained over 3,500 hours of operational flying time while working with the unit and was one of the main instigators of the first ever police aerial imagery suite to be set up in the UK. In October 2000, Simon was promoted to Sergeant and based at Leyton East London and worked in a part of London that saw one of the biggest rises in firearms offences in London at that time and he dealt with many firearms related incidents. As a result of this, he helped with the trial of new ballistic armour worn with overt covers that eventually led to a London wide roll-out programme. In April 2003, Simon was promoted to Inspector and posted to the London Borough of Newham, where he took the role of custody manager, being responsible for the NSPIS custody pilot as well as the COZART drug testing of both adults and juveniles. Simon then went onto response team work while developing his football commander skills at West Ham United and gaining ever more experience with serious critical and criminal incidents. As well as being Silver for the Olympic announcement at Stratford, he was also involved with the 7/7 bombings that followed the Olympic announcement.
Simon transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary in September 2005 and took up the role of Chief Inspector Territorial Operations for the Central area and then in October 2006 he became the CDRP Chief Inspector for Welwyn Hatfield. During his time at Welwyn Hatfield, a number of partnership initiatives were delivered which reduced crime and increased detections and resulted in two letters form the Home Office for sustained high performance. Simon was promoted to Superintendent in June 2008 and is currently the Director of Force Performance.
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