His career in policing spans 28 years, all in Essex, working in roles ranging from patrol constable to custody sergeant, Detective Inspector and then across a range of leadership positions leading geographical policing teams.

In his current role as DCC, Andy is responsible for overall force performance (preventing and detecting crime as well as building public trust and confidence ), promoting professional standards and delivering strategic change and innovation. Much of his work involves working with other agencies both locally and nationally. Andy is the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) lead for tackling anti-social behaviour – a role he is proud to have held since 2019.

Outside work, Andy enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing cricket (by his own admission, increasingly poorly), cheering on Manchester United (tough in recent years), and herding his three mad cats.

Diana Johnson has represented Hull North since May 2005 – Hull’s first female MP. Elected in 2024 for the sixth time, Diana now represents Hull North and Cottingham. Diana is currently Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention in the Home Office, with specific responsibility for tackling anti-social behaviour and other neighbourhood crime, as well as championing the Government’s ‘Safer Streets’ Mission. From December 2021 to May 2024 Diana was Chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee. Diana was appointed a Dame in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.

Jonathan Ash-Edwards was elected as Police & Crime Commissioner in May 2024.

Highly committed to public service, Jonathan has a wide range of leadership, governance and financial experience.

Jonathan first got involved in politics in 2007 successfully campaigning against proposals by the then Government to close the hospital in the Sussex town in which he grew up.

This experience led him to serve in local government as a Councillor for 16 years, including as executive member for finance and then Council Leader. He chaired a high performing Community Safety Partnership for four years, giving him a significant insight into effective strategies for crime prevention and tackling anti-social behaviour.

Committed to education and opportunities for young people, Jonathan founded an education trust now responsible for the education of over 3,500 young people and has worked nationally to support effective school governance.

Alongside public service, Jonathan has also been a serial business builder, starting his first business at the age of 24 and has led a company delivering major projects to clients across a number of sectors.

Hertfordshire means a lot to Jonathan, meeting his partner here and he now lives in the county with his family.

As Police & Crime Commissioner, Jonathan’s priorities are to keep Hertfordshire safe, ensure that record numbers of police officers translate into visible and responsive local policing, tackle violence against women and girls and for more offenders to be brought to justice.

Since his election, Jonathan has launched Operation Hotspot, a £1m initiative to put additional high visibility police patrols into 26 hotspots of anti-social behaviour, crime and violence. He has also launched a new webcast Accountability & Performance Meeting so that the PCC’s statutory duty to hold the Chief Constable to account for policing performance is publicly transparent for the first time.

Jonathan has been appointed as the national lead PCC for crime prevention & children and young people.

I am Detective Inspector Mark Brennan and I currently work for Leicestershire Police in our Prevention and Problem Solving Hub.

I joined Leicestershire Police in 2007 and in time have worked across a variety of operational roles including as a detective working in the Domestic Abuse Investigation Unit and Serious Sexual Assault teams, as a Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant in the role of Deputy NPA Commander, and as an emergency response Operational Command Inspector.  I have also worked in partnership and strategic roles in force including in the Vulnerable Adult Referral Team, the Force Change Team and most recently as a Staff Officer to the Chief Officer Team

I have worked in the area of serious violence crime prevention since January 2022.  In that time I have been the force tactical lead for the delivery of hotspots policing and problem solving as part of the Home Office GRIP fund.

I am looking forward to speaking to you about the role street outreach workers can have in preventing crime in hotspots.

Lee Freeman, KPM, was appointed as His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire Rescue Service in August 2023, following 31 years as a serving police officer.

Lee studied at Kingston University, before joining the police, with postings in the City of London, Lincolnshire, and Humberside.

He joined Humberside as an Assistant Chief Constable in 2015, before being appointed Chief Constable in May 2017. As Chief Constable he quickly led the force out of special measures to become the highest performing force in the country.

Alongside this, Lee has held several National Police Chief Council portfolios, was a member of the management committee for Police Sport UK and was a founding Director at Bluelight Commercial Ltd.

Polly Cox manages the Sector Learning & Development team at the Housing Ombudsman Service. She joined the Service in March 2023 having worked within the social housing sector for over 20 years. Polly’s experience includes leading on and delivering operational housing management, regulation, policy development, project management, training, resident influence, and complaints management.

Polly is part of the Quality, Engagement and Development directorate and is responsible for developing and managing the Housing Ombudsman Service Centre for Learning, where landlords can access a wide variety of learning resources to enhance their complaints management and drive a positive complaint handling culture.

Charlie joined the team as our Specialist Victim Project Manager in July 2021. Previously Charlie worked as an ASB practitioner within Derbyshire Victims Services (DVS), providing practical and emotional support to victims of ASB, and led in the development of several projects to raise the profile of ASB within communities and the impact it has on its victims.? During her tenure, Charlie and the ASB team at DVS received the Julie Coulthard Memorial Award for outstanding achievement for the casework they completed during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Charlie studied Psychology at the University of Northumbria and takes a keen interest in the motivations and compulsions behind anti-social behaviour.? She hopes that in understanding more about the reasons behind ASB we can effectively tackle it. She is passionate about supporting victims to cope, and recover, whilst also helping them find their voice in standing up against ASB. Charlie is excited to be part of our team and looks forward to championing victims’ rights and welfare.?? Personally, Charlie spends a lot of time outdoors with her husband, 4 year old son and dog, she loves berry picking for homemade jam, countryside walks and watching cooking programmes.?

Evan works for St Giles Trust, a charity that supports ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. He has developed and works on a range of projects including SOS Gangs, County Lines, Family Support and Through the Gates. He now focuses on developing Gangs/ SYV/ county lines projects across England and Wales.

Evan has worked in homelessness and offender services since the late 80s both in the statutory and voluntary sectors. His roles have included resettlement, shared housing management, floating support, street outreach and housing allocation.

St Giles Trust was among the first agencies to identify and campaign on county lines, raising awareness and are now delivering county lines support services in London and elsewhere.

St Giles trains and employs former service users to deliver its services; providing credible and capable staff who clients want to engage with; this is the Peer Advisor model and runs through all our work.

Nicki is the Head of Housing for Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse and works with local authorities to implement the Whole Housing Approach to ensure that domestic abuse survivors can access safe and secure housing. Prior to this Nicki spent more than 13 years working frontline in various roles within social housing and as the Domestic Abuse lead for Westward Housing she successfully guided them to achieve DAHA Accreditation in 2022. In 2020 Nicki wrote and presented a Domestic Abuse training video for repairs and maintenance contractors working in social housing to recognise and report the signs of domestic abuse. In her personal life Nicki has been a member of the Experts by Experience Group working with Surviving Economic Abuse for 7 years. As a survivor of domestic abuse Nicki now uses her personal knowledge and understanding to raise awareness of domestic abuse and ensure that the housing response for survivors is informed by the survivor voice.

Khan Odita founded Mulgrave Street Action Group at age 14 during his summer holidays. His aim was to eliminate fly tipping in his local area in Liverpool. The following 3 years of campaigning, negotiating, and consulting the community, along with running small projects, would result in UrbanScape Community Garden being built on the largest fly tip in the area. It launched 6th April 2023.

The garden has had great impacts in reduction of fly tipping in the area, the combat of anti social behaviour, and promoted an increase in community cohesion.

Odita went on to have his work recognised by the High Sherrif of Merseyside, the UK Prime Minister and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. Hailed as a gamechanger for the Toxteth-Liverpool community, UrbanScape won 1^st prize at the 2024 National Crimebeat Awards. Work is still ongoing with the space, with plans drawn up by MSAG to increase the social value of UrbanScape in the coming months.

His career in policing spans 28 years, all in Essex, working in roles ranging from patrol constable to custody sergeant, Detective Inspector and then across a range of leadership positions leading geographical policing teams.

In his current role as DCC, Andy is responsible for overall force performance (preventing and detecting crime as well as building public trust and confidence ), promoting professional standards and delivering strategic change and innovation. Much of his work involves working with other agencies both locally and nationally. Andy is the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) lead for tackling anti-social behaviour – a role he is proud to have held since 2019.

Outside work, Andy enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing cricket (by his own admission, increasingly poorly), cheering on Manchester United (tough in recent years), and herding his three mad cats.