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Scrutiny and Involvement Panel Members

Debbie Brenner

Debbie has been active in the Learning Disability movement for over 30 years. She set up a large not-for-profit, inclusive learning disability organisation, which she managed for the past 20 years. Debbie currently works with the Foundation for Learning Disabilities with family carers from minority communities. She also supports self-advocates to do quality reviews of services for Speakout in Hounslow.

As a member of Hounslow Friends of Faith, Debbie is active in her community promoting multi cultural activities which engender cooperation and understanding.

Cindy Butts (Independent Chair)

Cindy Butts became a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) in 2000 and was returned for subsequent terms of office in 2004 and 2008. She has been continuously elected as one of the authority's two deputy chairs. Holding a BA in Social Anthropology and Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Cindy was formerly a researcher for the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and then a House of Commons researcher.

Cindy is a member of the Home Secretary's Gun Crime Round Table and a longstanding member of the Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group. She chaired the MPA's significant gun crime scrutiny, published in February 2004, co-chaired the authority's scrutiny into MPS participation in Crime and Disorder Partnerships, and also led an independent evaluation of MPS Community Race Relations training. She was a panel member for the authority's ground breaking year-long inquiry into the causes and effects of terrorism amongst our diverse communities, 'Counter-Terrorism: The London Debate', which published 73 recommendations in February 2007.

Cindy leads for the authority on the Citizen Focus agenda within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and co-chairs (with Baroness Helena Kennedy) the MPA Domestic Violence Board, set up to monitor, scrutinise and support the MPS in its performance and response to domestic violence. She also leads a working group to oversee MPS participation in the national trial extending the use of Taser to non-firearms trained police officers. In October 2008, Mayor of London Boris Johnson invited Cindy to chair an inquiry into race and faith issues in the Metropolitan Police Service.

Dennis L Carney

Over the last 18 years Dennis has worked in a variety of different sectors, providing a range of high quality training and consultancy services to organisations interested in the following areas of service development: diversity, race and sexuality, HIV/AIDS, assertiveness training, team building and personal development workshops. Dennis also works part-time at PACE, facilitating therapeutic group work interventions aimed at Gay and Bisexual men, that explore themes around identity, self-esteem, relationships and sexual health. He is a part-time lecturer at London's City Lit, teaching courses on Diversity and Sexuality Awareness. He has also completed seven years of ongoing training in Humanistic Psychology at Spectrum. Dennis appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Reggae, Trainers & the Olympics and is the current Vice-Chair of the Black Gay Men's Advisory Group (BGMAG). In 2003 and 2006 he received Black LGBT Community Awards in recognition of his work with Black LGBT communities in the UK.

Dr Theo Gavrielides

Dr. Gavrielides is the Founder and Director of the social policy think-tank Independent Academic Research Studies. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) at Open University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Criminology and Justice Research Department of Justice Mount Royal University (Canada). He is also a Trustee of the Anne Frank Trust

Previously, he was the Chief Executive of Race on the Agenda, a social policy think-tank focusing on race equality. He also worked at the Ministry of Justice as the Human Rights Advisor of the Strategy Directorate. There, he led on the Human Rights Insight Project, which aimed to identify strategies that will further implement the principles underlying the Human Rights Act 1998 and improve public services. He also advised on the Ministry's Education, Information and Advice strategy.

During 2002-2004, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also a legal counsel specialising in criminal law, human rights and EU law. He taught criminal law and common law reasoning and institutions at the University of London.

Dr. Gavrielides has published extensively in academic journals while his book Restorative Justice; Theory and Practice has been published by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) and Criminal Justice Press (ISBN 978-952-5333-32-9). Currently, Dr. Gavrielides is working on a new book titled Rights and Restoration within Youth Justice. The book is due to be published in 2012 by de Sitter Publications.

Deborah Gold - GALOP

Deborah has been the Chief Executive of GALOP since January 2007. She is the Co- Chair of the LGBT Independent Advisory Group to the MPS, and also sits on the MPS LGBT Strategy Group. Deborah is a member of the Attorney General's Diversity Advisory Group. Her previous experience has included leading Stonewall Housing's Advice Service, a policy role at Shelter and setting up an advice service for young offenders in Lewes Prison. Deborah is the coauthor of Mapping LGBT Westminster, and Challenging Homophobia in Schools and Colleges: a toolkit for teachers and youth workers, and the author of Sexual Exclusion: issues in housing and homelessness for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

Jane Healy

Jane Healy has been a researcher and part-time lecturer in the Department of Criminology & Sociology at Middlesex University since 2006 and her research interests are primarily in the areas of hate crime and victimology. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Masters degrees in Criminology & Forensic Psychology and Social Science Research Methods and a post-graduate teaching certificate in higher education. Jane is completing her PhD at Middlesex University entitled "Invisible Victims: Exploring the social, emotional and economic impact of disability hate crime". She is primarily focussing on participatory research methods within an intersectionality framework. Her previous research projects include:

  • Cross Border Offending: Examining the reasons for and influences on burglary/robbery offenders who leave their home boroughs to offend (Home Office, 2010).
  • Adolescent Drinking Cultures: Peer Influence and Ethnicity: Exploring the significance of peer groups on the drinking cultures of young people from ethnic minority and deprived socio-economic backgrounds ( JRF, 2008-2009).
  • Secondary School Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Violence in the Workplace: Exploring and defining secondary school teachers' experiences of violence at work (ESCR, 2007-2008).
  • Forensic Psychological Services: Market research and analysis of practitioners interest in the area of Continuous Professional Development within Forensic Psychology (FPS, 2007-2008).

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson is a Detective Inspector in the City of London Police.

He as overall ownership of and responsibility for the public protection business within the City of London including Rape & Serious Sexual Offences, Missing Persons, Management of Violent & Sexual Offenders through MAPPA (multi-agency public protection arrangements), Hate Crime, Child Protection & Abuse investigations, Sudden Childhood & Infant Death investigations, Domestic Violence, Stalking, Harassment, Forced Marriage and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.

Steve is an active Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and has qualifications across a range of Public Protection strands. He has been highly commended by Victim Support, London for community investment initiatives.

DS David MacNaghten, Metropolitan Police Service

David has been with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for 28 years. He has worked as a detective in a number of London boroughs and on murder squads. Since 2000 he has specialised in hate crime matters and in 2004 joined the Racial and Violent Crime Taskforce at New Scotland Yard. He has been responsible for writing the MPS' hate Crime policy and has developed systems to ensure that Hate Crimes are recorded and identified as such. He represents the MPS at the Metropolitan Police Authority Hate Crime Forum and the ACPO National Community Tension Team. For a number of years he was a trustee and treasurer of a London borough Victim Support Service.

Ifath Nawaz

Ifath is a solicitor with over 20 years experience in Local Government in the United Kingdom and as Principal Solicitor at Wycombe District Council, she played a key role advising on engagement with the communities and equality and diversity issues. Ifath was the President of the Association of Muslim Lawyers (UK) 2002 - 2011 and Director of Muslimah Ltd leading on issues that matter to the community understanding the Legal System and working with legal institutions to enhance understanding of the Muslim perspective via advisory role, seminars, conferences and legal road shows. Ifath is also a Governor at local primary and high schools, taking particular interest in Minority Ethnic Achievement, Literacy and Community Issues.

Mari Cameron Taber - MIND

Mari has been working as a senior manager and mental health specialist for 32 years, in both statutory and voluntary sectors. She currently works as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice and is an active member of Kingston- Link (Local Involvement Networks, as set up by the Department of Health). K-LINK, assists local people to influence local care mental health services, from planning through to service delivery. As well as being involved in improving mental health service delivery at the community level, she is dedicated to finding out how the judicial system impacts on individuals suffering from mental distress. Her mission is to keep reassuring service users that their fear of discrimination will be taken seriously by a more informed and sensitive practice within the judicial system.

Anthony Wills - Standing Together Against Domestic Violence

As Chief Executive of Standing Together Against Domestic Violence since 2007, Anthony is building on the charity's excellent national reputation for partnershipworking. Specifically this means the operational delivery of a co-ordinated community response in a local setting but across the UK. He believes that such a response is the essential element to a change of culture in relation to domestic violence. His decision to work in this sector stems from his experience as a Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith and Fulham (1997-2003). It was his realisation of the vital nature of this issue that led him to support Standing Together from the outset.

Standing Together are currently delivering support to partnerships around the UK based on their work, In Search of Excellence, the national guide to domestic violence and violence against women partnerships. They also coordinate 3 multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs) and the SpecialistDomestic Violence Court at Hammersmith.