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Katy Bourne OBE

Katy Bourne OBE was raised and schooled in Sussex before graduating from Aberystwyth University. She still lives in mid-Sussex, is married to Kevin and has two adult sons. She was a successful business woman before entering politics and is now in her third term as Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Sussex.

The PCC’s role is to hold the Chief Constable of Sussex Police to account for the performance of the Force, effectively making the police answerable to the communities they serve.

Katy is responsible for setting the strategic direction and priorities for Sussex Police through the Police & Crime Plan. This includes setting the police budget and local police precept – the amount residents pay for policing in their council tax.

She also has a statutory duty to commission support services for victims of crime - including stalking and sexual and domestic abuse - and to deliver community safety initiatives including restorative justice and crime reduction grants.

Katy brings a genuine passion and commitment to make a difference and her work to support victims of crime has won her praise from successive Home Secretaries and Prime Ministers. Katy was also nationally recognised for founding the award-winning Sussex Youth Commission in 2013 and the Sussex Elders’ Commission in 2015.

Katy is a former Director of the Board of the College of Policing and former advisor to the editorial board of the Guardian Public Leaders Network. She is currently: Chair of the Sussex Criminal Justice Board; National Lead of the Association of Police & Crime Commissioners (APCC) portfolios for Roads Safety and Business/Retail Crime. She is also the APCC National Spokesperson for Stalking and a Board Director of the APCC. Katy was a former Chair and non-Exec Director of the national Police Digital Service and former Chair of the APCC. In June 2019 she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her public and political service.

Helen Dickinson OBE

Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail.

Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail, acting as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador; participating in the Timewise Innovation Unit, looking to support more flexibility in jobs, particularly at senior levels; supporting the Everywoman Retail Ambassadors Programme; and having previously been the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment.

Helen believes retail can make a strong contribution to communities, and is also on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses. Helen was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG, driving and developing the retail practice and leading relationships and audits for many clients.

Jenny Alleyne

Jenny Alleyne is the Head of Operational Risk and Compliance at Co-op.

Jenny is an accomplished Business Leader benefiting from over 20 years’ experience working within retail operations acquiring expert knowledge in strategic and operational risk management supported with capability to develop plans to facilitate and embed effective change. A keen interest in collaborating on crime resolutions to reduce the impact of crime on colleagues.

Sarah Bird

Sarah is the General Manager of the National Business Crime Solution, a not-for-profit organisation working with business, police and partners to tackle business crime across the UK, ranging from organised crime groups to local prolific offenders and everything in between.

Sarah first made an impact on the industry over 17 years ago at the regional business crime reduction hub the North East Retail Crime Partnership, which she led for 10 years. In that time, she managed and developed a number of local crime partnerships which continue to serve local business communities.

She is passionate about working collectively with partners across multiple sectors to drive positive change in the industry, tackling the most significant threats to businesses and reducing risk to front line colleagues.

Sarah is also a Trustee of the NBCS Foundation, a registered charity generated to support offender rehabilitation activities which fundamentally support the reduction of business crime.

Jordan Ford

Detective Inspector Jordan Ford is the Head of NaCTSO’s Business Engagement Unit and has been a police officer for 19 years.

Jordan spent the last ten years working across a number of Counter Terrorism Policing roles in both investigative and intelligence capacities before joining NaCTSO. A focus for Jordan this year will include promoting the Counter Terrorism information sharing platform, www.protectuk.police.uk. The platform offers advice and guidance for business and the public to help mitigate the risks of terrorism. His team will continue to develop engagement opportunities and raise awareness across small, medium and large businesses operating in publicly accessible locations around the UK.

Jo Grimshaw

Jo has worked for Surrey Police since 2003 where she started her career as an Antisocial Behaviour Caseworker responsible for Guildford/Waverley.

In 2012 she became the Force’s ASB Manager and in January 2021 was promoted to Head of ASB and Partnerships with the additional portfolio of youth engagement and tactical lead for Serious Violence as part of the work carried out by the Prevention and Problem-Solving Team.

Jo is directly responsible for a team of 7 ASB specialists and ASB Sgt who work closely with police teams and partner agencies to deal with ASB, either through prevention, intervention or enforcement. She tactically and strategically advises the Force on ASB which has included implementing policy and procedure for the ASBCPA 2014 and the use of ASB legislation and other ancillary orders to help tackle and disrupt serious and organised crime and child exploitation. She also has responsibility for the strategic delivery of the multi-agency problem solving platform (ECINS) for the County and the professional oversight of the 22 Youth Engagement Officers.

Jo has produced and implemented the Surrey Partnership ASB Plan and has helped with the commissioning of a victim service for repeat and vulnerable victims of ASB and a support service for victims who have been exploited due to cuckooing. She has also recently ensured that Surrey’s Community Trigger process was refreshed to include the recommendations from ASB Help and the Living the Nightmare Report 2019. She organises the County’s Practitioner Forums and the annual Surrey Tackling ASB Awards and ASB Awareness weeks.

Jo is a member of the Home Office ASB Strategic Board and is the South East Regional Police SPOC for the National Police Chiefs Council ASB Lead. She works closely with the Victims Commissioners Office campaigning for better rights for victims of ASB and works with the charities ASB Help and Surrey Crimestoppers. She is a member of the VP’s Board for Surrey Clubs for Young People and recently joined the National Policing VKPP Child Exploitation Peer Review Team.

Patrick Holdaway

Superintendent Patrick Holdaway, from the City of London Police, has led the National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) since December 2018.

During this time Patrick has worked across policing and government to raise the issues that affect business, developing and sharing best practice to prevent violence and tackle organised crime.  The NBCC also provides the national coordination for the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme, and private security liaison, important areas that help policing protect businesses and the public.

Through Patrick’s leadership the NBCC has been formally recognised for its work by both policing and business, including the Fraud Awards, National Police Chiefs Council, National Courier Awards and most recently the UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards.

Francesca Inman

Francesca Inman is a Senior Project Manager and Business Crime Reduction Manager.

Fran works for the Bristol City Centre BID and Redcliffe and Temple BID within Bristol City Centre. She leads on all initiatives that make Bristol safer and has developed and introduced a new Business Crime Reduction Partnership that spans across three BIDs and two shopping centres. Fran also sits on various strategic boards with the Local Authority, Police and The National Association of Business Crime Reduction Partnerships.

Sophie Jordan

Sophie Jordan, The National Association of Business Crime Partnerships, representing the voice of BCRPs nationally, promoting best practice and encouraging high standards of operational effectiveness for Business Crime Partnerships across the UK.

An experienced BCRP Manager and National Standards Accreditation Assessor, Sophie is passionate about the functionality of BCRPs within our Towns and Cities, with the wide range of benefits offered to businesses and their staff, whilst promoting safety within our local communities.

Adam Ratcliffe

Adam Ratcliffe is the Operations Director for Safer Business Network, a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company which implements and operates multiple award-winning Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) across London.

Directly responsible for all partnerships across London, Adam works strategically with partners such as Police, Local Authorities, Landowners and BIDs, and Security companies to implement long-term crime prevention and community safety initiatives.

Adam is a member of the Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRP) National Standards Board, and a member of the Home Office National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) chaired by the Minister for Crime and Policing.

Before moving to London to join Safer Business Network, Adam was Chief Executive Officer for Cambridge Business Against Crime, the equivalent company in his hometown of Cambridge, joining the organisation after leaving Cambridgeshire Constabulary where he served as a Police Officer after leaving University. He has undertaken consultancy for local authorities, Police forces, and BIDs across the UK on business crime prevention and partnerships.

A Law School graduate, Adam is also an Associate Lecturer in Criminology, Politics, and the Ethics of Policing, and has extensive experience in delivering training across a variety of subjects. He has a background in board-level engagement within the private and public sectors and working in multi-agency problem-solving partnerships.

Adam is an Ambassador for the White Ribbon Campaign, a charity working to prevent violence against women and girls and is committed to using his experience to improve safety for everyone.

Emmeline Taylor

Professor Emmeline Taylor is a criminologist with research expertise in business-related crime and security accumulated over the last 20 years. Her research has explored a range of topics in relation to retail crime, including self-service checkout, armed robbery, violence towards shop workers, theft, new technologies, and the evaluation of law enforcement responses to crime in the retail sector.

She has published six books including Armed Robbers (2022) and Surveillance Futures (2017). In addition, she has authored many industry reports, including most recently:

Emmeline is Chair of the Business Reduction Partnerships (BCRP) National Standards Board, a member of the Home Office National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) chaired by the UK’s Minister for Crime and Policing, and a member of the UK Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) Expert Panel.

Christopher Turner

Professor Christopher Turner is currently Chief Executive of British BIDs, and is on the Advisory Board for British BIDs and a range of other national agencies. He produces the annual National survey of Bids in the UK and has completed consultancy projects with a number of BIDs in the UK.

Economist and Information scientist, he worked initially at the British Institute of Management before moving into research and teaching at Birmingham and then Brighton University, where he became Dean and Professor of Information Studies. He then moved to become Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Winchester.

Professor Turner has undertaken consultancy for the British Council, Post Office, Probation Service, Home Office, Citizens Advice Bureaux, a number of NHS Trusts and the World Bank; he has completed Research on Workforce Planning and Online public access systems for the British Library and has also worked on consultancy projects in India, Germany, Chile, Singapore, Greece, Malaysia, Hungary, Brazil, China, Japan, Kenya and Nigeria.

He has published a variety of papers as well as two monographs: Organising Information: principles and practice and The Dissemination of Information. Professor Turner has been Chair of the Association for Information Management, Chair of the Hampshire and Solent Learning Hub, a member of the British Library Advisory Board, President of the North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and a board member of a number of other research based trusts, including Wired Wessex, NHS On-line Direct, and Rescue.

He was on the Local Strategic Partnership for both Winchester and Basingstoke and is the past Chair of the Hampshire Economic Partnership Creative and Cultural Industries Task group, and the Winchester District Strategic Partnership Cultural Consortium. He is currently chair of the Winchester Festivals Group.

Professor Turner has a consulting company, Development Works, works in South East Asia and Europe for the University of Winchester, is researching the development of creative cities, and is on the Committee of the International Conference for E-learning in the Workplace and both the International and European Conference Committees for E-Learning, as well as the European and International Conference Committees for Enterprise and Innovation.