§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Blunkett)I am pleased to announce that I have appointed John Wadham and Claire Gilham to be the first Deputy Chairs of the Independent Police Complaints Commission along with 15 Commissioners.
They are:
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Newly Appointed Commissioner Current Position Claire Gilham (Deputy Chair) Lecturer, Deputy District Judge, Lay Chair NHS Complaints procedure, Board Member of Muir Group Housing Association, Chair of Statutory enquiries, Northwest region and Member of the Mental Health Act Commission. John Wadham (Deputy Chair) Director of Liberty. Ian Bynoe First Deputy Chair of the Police Complaints Authority. John Crawley Chief Executive of FCH Housing and Care (a Midlands housing, social care and regeneration agency). Chair of a NHS Primary Care Trust. Tom Davies Director for Wales, the Prince's Trust. Mike Franklin Assistant inspector with a portfolio for race and diversity within HM Inspectorate of Constabularies. Gary Garland Currently a Trial Attorney with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia dealing with serious breaches of international law. He has previous experience as an international prosecutor and a senior prosecution lawyer and a former member of the Bar Council.
Newly Appointed Commissioner Current Position Deborah Glass Currently PCA Member and previously Chief Executive of the Investment
Management Regulatory Organisation.
Len Jackson Currently Chair of the East Midlands Sports Board. He was previously
Managing Director of Amelca plc and
Pork Farms (Northern Foods plc). He has
chaired voluntarily New Deal Employer
Coalition and Common Purpose, an
Educational Charity.
Nicholas Long Trustee for NACRO, Surveyor and member of Metropolitan Police Authority
where he is Deputy Chair of Finance
Committee and member of Operation
Trident Independent Advisory Group.
Laurence Lustgarten Professor of Law at University of Southampton, occasional lecturer to the
judiciary and police service, member of the
Advisory Council of the Kurdish Human
Rights project.
Naseem Malik Head of Legal Service at Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Rebecca Marsh Operations Manager at Guidance Accreditation Board and Deputy Chair of
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust.
Previously a regional lay Chair for NHS
Complaints.
Mehmuda Mian Pritchard PCA Member and non-executive director of the NHS Litigation Authority and
Friend of ASRA Housing Association.
David Fetch PCA Member. Amerdeep Somal Prosecution team leader at the CPS and Secretary of Roshni Asian
Woman's Refuge Management
Committee.
Nicola Williams Barrister and PCA Member. The IPCC will commence in April 2004, replacing the Police Complaints Authority, and will operate according to the powers and duties provided to it by the Police Reform Act 2002. It will be responsible for the effective and efficient running of the police complaints system.