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I am a healthcare professional and public servant with a strong commitment to improving community wellbeing and safety across Derbyshire.

As Chair of Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch, I have the privilege of working alongside over 33,000 volunteers across 883 schemes. Together, we support and strengthen local communities through crime prevention, awareness-raising, and meaningful grassroots engagement.

My background is in anaesthetics, intensive care, and medical education, having worked across both the NHS and private sector. This clinical experience gives me a unique perspective when working with partners across Derbyshire, including my role of Deputy PCC for Derbyshire from the Office of the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, particularly in addressing the complex links between health, vulnerability, and crime.

I am especially passionate about education, women’s health, and social inclusion. With a strong understanding of mental health, trauma, and emotional well-being, I am committed to ensuring that victims of crime feel heard, supported, and able to access the help they need.

A key focus of my work is supporting the Police and Crime Commissioner’s priorities, including tackling drug dealing and substance misuse by understanding the underlying causes and drivers of crime. I also lead on initiatives to address Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), working to build trust in policing, raise awareness, and improve access to support services and aftercare for victims.

Through all of my roles, my aim is simple — to create safer, more connected communities where people feel supported, informed, and empowered.

My previous experience within working and supporting the Derbyshire community is as a Borough Councillor, since 1984 and Mayor of Erewash 2012 Breaston Parish Councillor Executive member of Derbyshire Association of local councils.

My working life has been spent in the international pharmaceutical industry working for companies such as Pfizer. Very recently retired early, I have taken a position on Breaston Parish Council and Breaston Neighbourhood Watch Scheme.

I joined my local scheme in 2002, when I first moved to live in Derby.  I am a community activist and work in the NHS. I find the way our Derbyshire Police and the Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner endeavour to serve us all well, quite amazing.  So, it’s a real privilege to be appointed and join the Board of DNWAT.

I hope to see greater integration between local schemes and increased involvement from young people in particular.  We all have a role to play as important consumers of safer societies.  Having previously worked for my local council and in HMPS I aim to bring my lived experience to the role.

I first joined a local Scheme in 2002 and gradually became more involved in NHW as I took over as Secretary of the Committee and then Chair and then back ont on the board.

This led to my joining the East Mids Forum for NHW and then being voted in as Board member of the national body, now NWN. I stood down as County Chair, but remained as a Board member, when I was elected Chair of the National body in 2015. I spent several years building up a team of staff and Board members with professional experience and handed over the responsibility of Chair of NWN to Dr Fatima Eltinay in 2025.