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From the Editor his issue is dominated by the launch of Gender Agenda 2- the Tevent held in London which was a real success. I know the launch has given many of you the motivation to get the momentum going again following all the excellent achievements NEWS since the Gender Agenda was launched in 2001. BAWP defends female officers after newspaper criticism 3 Please take the time to fill in the questionnaire on Page 4 giving Reader survey 4 us your views about what you would like to see in Grapevine and A study into networking – can you help? 5 don't forget to get your nominations in for the BAWP awards by December 31, 2006 so that we can formally recognise some of the Police host women’s development day 6 great work going on across the country. Are you prepared for the Gender Equality Duty? 7 We have had so much to include in this issue that we have run out of space for the specialist network series- but I can assure you it will be back in the next edition. As always if you have any FEATURES stories that you would like to see featured in Grapevine please Cover story: get in touch. Gender Agenda 2 is launched 8-9

More than 300 people turn up to the London launch Dates for your diary Meet the BAWP committee members 10-11 2006 Put faces to names in our photo gallery Deadline for BAWP Award nominations – December 31.

IAWP News & 2007 BAWP Awards 12-13 National Senior Women in Policing Conference – Hilton Metropole, Get the lowdown from the 2006 NEC, Birmingham – Wednesday 28 February (lunchtime) to Friday 2 conference in Saskatoon, Canada March (lunchtime) inclusive.

Spring Professional Development Day – Forest of Arden Hotel, Warwickshire. Tuesday April 17(dinner) and Wednesday April 18 (please note slight change to days of the week to accommodate school returns) From policewoman to businesswoman 14 One woman shows there is life after policing Autumn Professional Development Day – Forest of Arden Hotel, Warwickshire. Monday September 10 (dinner) and Tuesday September 11. Kim climbs Kilimanjaro 15 Conquering the world’s highest 45th Annual IAWP Training Conference – Denver, Colorado, USA, freestanding mountain September 23-27.

Reception at the House of Lords to mark BAWP’s 20th anniversary – Thursday November 1. Membership details 16

Editor: Inspector Kim Rowley Assistant Editor: Nicky Phillipson Copy deadline for the Spring issue is email: [email protected] email: [email protected] February 19, 2006

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News in brief Leaflet flies off shelf hank you to everyone who attended the launch of A BAWP produced guide to help managers Gender Agenda 2. After a couple of false starts, not of deal with staff who they believe are victims of T our making, it turned into a great day which provided domestic violence has been praised by staff From the some real thought provoking stuff. I must also extend my across the country. thanks to Ellie Bird and Liz Owsley for gathering the views of The leaflet, which was produced in President’s women and men across the country to ensure Gender conjunction with the charity Women’s Aid, Agenda 2 was current; and for the many hours they put into explains what signs to look out for in staff, Desk editing both the booklet and video clips used during the day. how to approach the subject and where help I have been encouraged by the number of requests for can be copies of the booklet, post event, and hope forces are really sought. driving forward the long term aims to make the service better for everyone. BAWP Sharing best practice and networking are two things I feel very strongly about, which is why the National BAWP is hosting this year’s Senior Women in Policing Conference. This will be a professional event Co- where we hope to create a vision of policing which takes into account the women in policing and ordinator the women we police. Liz Owsley It isn’t just for women of senior ranks, but also for those who are senior in service or feel they can says contribute to the development of a vision of policing. Anyone who attends will be expected to take requests what they have learnt from the conference and use it to make a difference in their own force and for extra with the public they serve. copies of Nationally, we are continuing to work on your behalf to challenge employment law which bans the the use of selective recruitment to balance gender mixes within forces. This is a real grey area – leaflet, something which Gloucestershire Constabulary found out too late. It will be interesting to see how which the Gender Equality Duty impacts on forces too. was I have also taken on a new ACPO Portfolio: Citizen Focus. Until now policing hasn’t had a voice in launched at the this crucial arena and I intend to change that. It is important to ensure we really improve the citizen’s September Professional Development Day, experience of policing whatever their age, gender, religious or cultural background. We need a have been streaming in. “This is great news police service which is sensitive to everybody’s needs. and I have had many comments from police officers and police staff alike praising its content. We have already had to have another batch printed to meet the huge demand.” Copies of the leaflet are still available for he launch of Gender Agenda 2 has finally use by all forces. Contact Liz by email happened, and was a very impactive day, [email protected] to request them. Tthanks to the professionalism of all concerned. I can say that without any false modesty, as I had no involvement at all in putting the programme together. By the time you read this I hope the new website Women on the up will be live and you are enjoying the new features. Secretary’s One that I have been wanting for a long time is a CONGRATULATIONS to BAWP committee members’ area, where we can put items of a more members Ellie Bird and Angela Wilson who Snippets confidential nature, and special privileges. The first of have both gained promotions. these is a travel club, which promises to give you savings, and will also generate a little bit of Angela, who is an officer with , income for BAWP. If you are a member, you should have been notified by now of the login has been promoted to detective chief details, but if you have not, then please contact me. superintendent and has become the force’s The next big event in BAWP’s calendar is the Senior Women in Policing Conference at the crime registrar based in Dundee. end of February. You can find out more at www.swip-online.org or from the advert in this issue. She transferred to Tayside in 2002 after 18 As we move into 2007, we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of BAWP years with . and I will be assembling historical material for a special booklet later in the year. We have a Ellie, who was originally a West Midlands reception at the House of Lords booked for the evening of Thursday 1 November to which all Police officer, has been promoted within members will be invited. I hope I will be able to put up a display of the material at that event. As . She has become the only remaining founder member still on the committee, I do feel a responsibility to superintendent operations for the London safeguard our history, and would welcome any photos that may be tucked away of any BAWP Underground with responsibility for related event. I have a fair number myself, together with most of the Grapevine editions, but will operations, counter terrorism and policing look after any that are sent to me (don’t forget to use the new address – find it on page 16), major events in London, and the millions of and return them if required. people who use the Underground every day. I hope that you all have a peaceful Christmas and New Year.

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News in brief Hampshire’s network Women dubbed ‘unsuitable of women goes local

WOMEN’S networks for front-line policing’ are being introduced Political commentator Amanda Platell has shot dead her colleague, PC Sharon in each of Hampshire angered women police officers across the Beshenivsky, and fired at her.” And while Ms Constabulary’s basic country with her opinions about the Platell expressed sympathy for PC Milburn, command units and suitability of women for frontline policing. who had to leave the witness box several departments in an Her comments, which were printed in the times after breaking down, she then said: “But effort to mainstream Saturday Daily Mail Newspaper on October 21, she does rather make the case for keeping work to address came on the back of reports from the Sharon women PCs off the street”. gender issues. Beshenivsky murder trial at which PC Teresa BAWP National Co-ordinator Liz Owsley has The force has Julie Fry attended the Milburn showed considerable distress when contacted Ms Platell to express her concern held annual Gender network launch she took to the witness stand to describe her about the piece she dubbed “ridiculous” and Agenda friend’s murder. “ill-informed”. conferences for the Amanda Platell opened her piece with: “If “I can’t believe in this day and age someone past three years but has decided the time has ever proof were needed that women are could have such naïve views about policing. I come to continue the work at a more local fundamentally unsuitable for front-line am amazed she thinks had Teresa been a man level. policing. It came with the testimony of PC she would have behaved any differently. Each local network will be part of the Teresa Milburn who sobbed in court this week Describing the death of a colleague is force’s wider Network of Women which was as she recalled the moment when a gunman distressing whatever your gender.” Said Liz. launched in September. Representatives from each BCU and department have been given tips on how to set up a local network, what the local gender Police dogs, drugs and issues might be and how to publicise events. The idea for local networks came from the staff who attended the annual conferences. dressing gowns “A recurring issue was that women felt A double hip replacement didn’t stop British Transport Police’s PC Judy Bailey becoming the UK’s isolated in their BCUs or department but the first female police dog instructor. Judy, who left behind a career as a librarian to become a police conferences gave them an opportunity to talk officer, is qualified to train in all three dog section disciplines. She has been credited with helping to to other women with similar experiences and introduce the use of passive drugs dogs into her force and with her dog Benji caught over 1,500 issues,” said Chief Superintendent Ann people in possession of drugs during the two years she worked as a passive drugs dog handler. Wakefield, who is chair of the Gender

Judy says the job is “hard work”, but extremely rewarding. “It is not a matter of just running Agenda working party. Photograph reproduced courtesy around with a pretty dog,” she said. “The other day I had picked up a dog for suitability assessment and had to get up every two hours during the night to try and get it to go to the toilet, which it Changes to refused to do. There I was stood in my driveway in my dressing gown with the wind blowing around me. It is all part of the job which a lot of people don’t always realise.” maternity pay WOMEN expecting babies on or after April 1, Judy with potential 2007 will now be able to take an extra 13 drugs dog Dante from weeks paid maternity leave. the force’s puppy scheme. The change in the law increases the paid statutory maternity period of leave from 26 to 39 weeks. Unpaid maternity leave can then be taken for a further 13 weeks. The new rules also enable maternity leave to start on any day of the week and for women to return to paid work for up to ten days during the maternity leave period. These days – dubbed ‘keeping in touch days’ – will not affect maternity payments. Women will, from April 2007, also be expected to give employers eight weeks notice if they intend to return to work from maternity leave early.

•Find out more on HM Revenue and Customs website: www.hmrc.gov.uk/ Photograph reproduced courtesy British Transport Police Photograph reproduced courtesy British Transport

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News in brief To network or not? A job for a women ‘ATTRACTIVE’ women are being sought in A University of Oxford post graduate Russia to become traffic officers in a bid to researcher is looking for BAWP members combat corruption. to share their views on the impact Research which showed women are less networking has on women in the police likely to accept bribes, prompted the police service. chief in the southern city of Volgagrad to try Carol So, who is an affiliate member of the to recruit an all-female unit. BAWP, has already looked at how female In the Izvestia newspaper, Mikhail Tsukruk, officers develop their personal networks and is quoted as saying that applicants: “don’t find social support, and is anxious to broaden have to be blondes with long legs, but we’d her work. like them to be attractive….let people admire Carol says she is particularly interested in them!” professional networking events and wants to find out how these networks shape women’s • What do you think of Mr Tsukruk’s experiences. She has already spoken to female sentiments? Email the Editor (contact details officers from Thames Valley Police and on page 1) members of the BAWP committee which provided a real insight into the benefits of networking. point out the inadequacy of such opportunities “It is clear the BAWP network has provided at work, primarily because of time restrictions Gloucestershire’s the committee members in particular with and the gender imbalance in the team, great support and help in their day-to-day especially in the higher ranks.” She said. recruitment backlash work,” said Carol. “I have also, through talking Finding out what the barriers are to GLOUCESTERSHIRE Constabulary was found to people at one of the BAWP Professional professional networking is one of Carol’s aims. to have “unlawfully discriminated on the Development Days, found that the number of Carol is already gathering best practice from grounds of race and sex” after it rejected 108 women’s network groups in forces is on the forces and hopes at the end of the study to be potential recruits because they were white up. This shows the interest many women have able to suggest some ways in which women men. in helping, advising, mentoring and exchanging can be given more social support in the An employment tribunal awarded ideas with each other,” she added. service. compensation to one claimant who was told However Carol said an already emerging Willing to help? Contact Carol So by email he had been “randomly deselected” by the theme is the lack of time women have to [email protected] and look out for recruitment team who were trying to increase network. “Many women recognise the her questionnaire on the BAWP website early the number of women and ethnic minority importance of professional networking, but next year. recruits. In a statement the force said that at the time the recruitment campaign was being run they were “acting in good faith in attempting Committee hosted in Belfast to address the recruitment profile of the constabulary”. The force has “welcomed” the BAWP Committee national debate sparked by the tribunal and members got a says clarification is needed around “how the flavour of the police service can meet the targets set within policing successes this complex area of law.” and future 5 Under current law positive discrimination challenges for the (giving an individual a job just because they Police Service of are from an under represented group) and Northern Ireland BAWP’s view of affirmative action (where (PSNI) on a visit to members of under represented groups are Belfast last month given preference for a set time period if they (November). reach the recruitment standard) are not legal. The Northern Ireland The BAWP has joined forces with the Gay Policing Board hosted the Winter committee meeting in the city and were keen to share the results Police Association, the National Black Police of their Gender Action Plan with committee members. The board’s representative on gender issues, Association, the Police Federation of England Rosaleen Moore attended the meeting along with the force’s Sir Hugh Orde. and Wales and Police Superintendents’ Assistant Chief Constable Judith Gillespie hosted a networking dinner that evening which gave Association, to look at affirmative action and committee members a chance to speak to colleagues in the PSNI. how it could be used to make the police service truly representative of the community 5 Find out more about the Gender Action Plan on the Policing Board website at it serves. This would require a change in www.nipolicingboard.org.uk. the law.

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EVENTS Achieving dreams and goals

one off development day designed to help ’s female staff Areach their full potential is set to become an annual event after attendees declared it ‘fantastic’. ‘Gender Agenda’ had been organised as part of Cleveland Police’s commitment to the national Gender Agenda by Diversity Officer Sergeant Helen Eustace and Personnel Manager Heather Clynch. Speakers included BAWP’s own Liz Owsley, the force’s most senior member of police staff Assistant Chief Officer of Finance and Commissioning, Ann Hall (pictured below), politician, author and barrister Vera Baird QC MP and multiple gold medal winner Dame Tanni Grey- Thompson (pictured right). Dame Tanni, Photographs reproduced courtesy Cleveland Police who was born with spina bifida, positive feeling going to find speakers to live up to that has an incredible surrounding the standard for next year’s event.” athletics record whole event. The Assistant Chief Constable Adam Briggs, that has seen her response shows just the force’s Gender Agenda champion, said: win 11 Olympic how important it is “The speakers conveyed a positive and in Golds, six London to be aware of some cases inspirational message which has marathons and issues affecting set the tone for the work that is required to be set over 30 world women in the done. It is important to emphasise that the records. She workplace. conference is only the start of a work spoke to the audience about how they could “All who attended the event left feeling programme that will see the Gender Agenda achieve their dreams and goals. uplifted and with a renewed sense of purpose, incorporated into the culture and business Helen says the feedback from the event was thanks to the amazing speakers we had. In fact, of Cleveland Police and help develop all great. “I have been left overwhelmed by the they were so good, we don’t know how we are our staff.” Awards to Staff West Midlands Police have followed in the day included: Lisa Potts – the nursery nurse in ten areas such as inspiring leaders, work-life footsteps of both the IAWP and BAWP by who was injured as she tried to shield children balance, rewards and recognition and holding their very own women in policing from a machete attack at the nursery where employee satisfaction. awards ceremony. she worked, Licenced Springboard consultant Danni said the award “celebrates the good The awards, which mirror those given Jan Morris and Justin Clarke a consultant from work already under way in West Midlands nationally and internationally, were presented the charity Wellbeing of Women (WoW) who Police” and that they are “rightly proud of it.” at the force’s annual Women’s Professional spoke about the impact of shift work on The were also included Development Day in December. gynaecological and reproductive health. in the top 50 alongside four other public BAWP Committee member Inspector Jane sector organisations: the Crown Prosecution Parry said: “We saw an opportunity to ….and the force itself Service, the Driving Standards Agency, Brent recognise some of the excellent work done Council and The Whittington Hospital NHS within West Midlands Police. They also help West Midlands Police has been named as one Trust. promote the national and international awards of the top 50 places where women want to to our officers and staff and will hopefully lead work by The Times Aurora awards. See the full list at to more nominations to both this year.” The nomination was compiled by Sergeant www.wherewomenwanttowork.com/top50/ Speakers at the professional development Danni Corfield who had to provide evidence 2006_top50.asp

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News in brief New law set to promote Heaps of praise for Helen

gender equality A CUMBRIA personnel officer has The Gender Equality Duty (GED) comes Public authorities, including the police, will been praised for her into force in April 2007. have to comply with a number of ‘specific duties’. work supporting and It places a statutory duty on all public authorities This includes setting a gender equality scheme or encouraging women to eliminate unlawful discrimination and action plan with specific gender equality goals, within the harassment and promote equal opportunities for and consulting relevant stakeholders, such as constabulary. men and women. Instead of depending on service users, unions, customers and employees Helen Ivory received a certificate of merit individuals making complaints about sex on these goals. Services may then have to be from ’s Deputy Chief discrimination or harassment the duty places the redesigned or adjusted to achieve these goals. Constable Christine Twigg for her role in legal responsibility on public authorities, including The goals and the action plan must be published organising a women’s professional the police, to demonstrate that they treat men and reviewed every three years. A gender impact development day (reported in the Autumn and women fairly. The duty will affect policy assessment must also be carried out on every issue of Grapevine) and introducing making, public services, such as transport, and policy and procedure to ensure it doesn’t have a Springboard to the force. Helen said she was employment practices such as recruitment and negative impact on men or women. “delighted to receive the award” and that it flexible working. Vice President of BAWP had been a “very proud moment”. In practice forces will Factfile Suzette Davenport says the have to think about the 5 The Gender Equality Duty is a key part of great thing about the policies they develop and the Equality Act which came into force in Gender Equality Duty is Golfing enthusiasts the services they deliver April 2006 and also established the that it places a statutory with the different needs Commission for Equality and Human responsibility on police wanted of women and men in Rights. forces to consider whether THE search is on for a female golfer in every mind. 5 The Equal Opportunities Commission they have a gender UK force to help raise awareness of a national For example the and in future the Commission for Equality imbalance in their golfing competition open only to women. outdated practice, and Human Rights can enforce the workforce. “It makes all The annual National Police Ladies Golf addressed in the Gender Gender Equality Duty in the courts. public authorities look at Championship is set to take place next August Agenda 2’s long term aim 5 The Gender Equality Duty comes into how they recruit staff and and the team organising the event are hoping five, of issuing uniform force on April 6, 2007 consider whether this is for a bumper turn out. and equipment designed 5 Gender Equality Schemes must be in helping to achieve a good Jan Harring from Avon and Somerset for men to women could place by April 30, 2007 balance of women and Constabulary is looking for one woman, or be considered in breach men in the service. even a man, from each police force to co- of the Gender Equality Duty. “It is a fact that women are under-represented ordinate teams of women golfers in their Employment policies may need to be reviewed in the top ranks of almost all criminal justice own force. to consider how flexible working could help both bodies – the police, the CPS, the judiciary, prisons Jan said: “We intend to run a 36 hole women and men and whether changes in policy and probation. And now a report commissioned competition on one day as the main and procedure could improve the return rate by the Fawcett Society, a charity who campaign championship, with the best gross over two after maternity leave. for equality between women and men, has rounds providing the national champion. More importantly forces should look at suggested this under representation can have a However, in order to encourage lady golfers of whether the gender balance in the organisation knock-on effect on the treatment that women all abilities to join in we are also having best tips one way or another and then consider what receive as victims and offenders – which is real nett in the silver division (0 -20) and best nett they can do at the recruitment stage to address this. food for thought.” in the bronze division (21-36). If there is Forces will also need to look at how their Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, sufficient interest it may be possible in the employment policies affect transsexual men and Jenny Watson believes the Gender Equality future to have regional events as well.” women. This could mean developing a policy to Duty has the potential to make services work Next year’s event will be at Lossiemouth, support employees undergoing gender better for all women touched by the criminal Scotland on August 30 and 31, 2007. The first reassignment and looking at what is being done justice system. “Whether it’s a better response to day will be a practice day and the to encourage job applications from the ‘trans’ women who are victims of sexual crime, or a championship will be held on the second day. community. prison service that ends the cycle of women’s r Accommodation will be available locally. The GED will apply to all bodies providing e-offending through effective programmes that Interested? Contact Jan on 01935 402230 public functions including private and voluntary take into account family responsibilities, we • Reps have already been nominated from the sector bodies. will all benefit.” following forces: Avon and Somerset Constabulary, , Dorset Find out more Police, , , • Equal Opportunities Commission website www.eoc.org.uk or contact their helpline 0845 601 5901 Hertfordshire Constabulary, Lancashire or email [email protected] Constabulary, Metropolitan Police Service, • Fawcett Society website www.fawcettsociety.org.uk where you can read their report ‘Understanding , your duty – a report on the gender equality duty and the criminal justice system’ and .

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FEATURE Gender Agenda 2 is la

he launch of Gender Agenda 2 has been if we are to achieve the vision of generating a audience by dramatising real experiences. hailed a success by the BAWP committee. thriving police service which supports women in “They can say things and leave impressions that TChief constables, police authority leaders, achieving their full potential and making their full officers and staff couldn’t possibly do,” said Mrs officers and police staff from across the UK contribution to policing.” Spence. “The scenarios didn’t just focus on gathered in London’s Russell Hotel at the end of Mr McNulty, who chairs the Home Office women’s issues, but looked at, for example, how October. ‘Women in Policing’ steering group developed flexible working can benefit men too.” The event was opened by BAWP president and following the launch of Gender Agenda 1 in 2001, The aims were also illustrated using clips from Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Julie Spence who also praised the ‘vigour and commitment’ of interviews with female officers and police staff who looked back on how the Gender Agenda has BAWP and its committee members in driving the shared their views and experiences of gender progressed in the last five years. gender agenda forward. inequality. “There have been real improvements,” she said. He concluded: “There is no room for Other speakers included Peter Fahy, the “The percentage of women officers in the police complacency on this issue. The Government will Association of Chief Police Officer’s (ACPO) lead service has increased by six per cent – from 21,000 take full account of Gender Agenda 2 and ensure on race and diversity issues, who said the Gender to 31,000. The number of female sergeants has our police gender policies are developed in Agenda is not just an issue for women. “It will not increased by 1,200 and the numbers of female recognition of the needs, circumstances and work if it is just left to women to crusade – it is an inspectors, chief inspectors, superintendents and concerns of the people who will be affected issue for men too,” he said. “We need to have a ACPO officers have doubled.” by them.” culture where people are accepted on the merits In his opening address Police Minister Tony The conference saw real-life scenarios acted out of their performance, not whether they fit an McNulty, threw his support behind the drive for by drama company AFTA Thought. The actors and outdated stereotype of policing. This is not about gender equality, saying: “The adoption of Gender actresses were able to bring the Gender Agenda diversity for diversity’s sake. This is about getting Agenda 2 in its entirety is not optional; it is a must 2’s five long term aims to life for the 300 strong the best possible service, the best possible Photographs courtesy Lindsay Wilson Photography Ltd

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FEATURE launched

The event’s final speaker Sir Ronnie Flanagan “There is no room for from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) spoke of his passion for pushing the complacency on this Gender Agenda forward and gave his personal issue. The Government commitment to do all he could to help. “What we must do is respect difference and respect and will take full account of promote a culture of diversity.” He said. “Much has o been achieved but we cannot become Gender Agenda 2 and complacent. If we do not act to make people of Tony McNulty any background feel comfortable in pursuing a ensure our police gender police career we will perpetuate the problem of policies are developed in inequality. workforce, so we can do the best for the people “We (HMIC) can do a lot to assist Gender we serve.” recognition of the needs, Agenda 2. We can draw attention to intolerance Support was also given by the Chair of the and make recommendations as to how that Police Federation of England and Wales Jan Berry, circumstances and imbalance can be addressed. “ Mike Roe from the Police Superintendents’ In closing the conference Mrs Spence pledged Association of England and Wales and concerns of the people not to “let Gender Agenda 2 gather dust”. She said representatives from the Association of Scottish who will be affected by it had to be the “catalyst” to ensure women are Police Superintendents and the Scottish Police able to make their full contribution to policing. Federation. them.”

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FEATURE The faces behind the names – meet

BAWP Committee members regularly travel the length and breadth of Members sit on a whole host of international, national and the country to raise awareness of gender issues by supporting force local policing groups to ensure the views of women are events, speaking at police training courses or representing the BAWP considered at each stage of the decision making process. at national conferences. The BAWP committee meets four times a year to discuss

Jackie Alexander Louise Angel Ellie Bird Vera Bloor Julie Spence Nottinghamshire Cambridgeshire BTP Staffordshire Cambridgeshire East Midlands Regional Eastern Regional President Co-ordinator Co-ordinator

Bernard Divine Gill Donnell Diane Doyle Patricia Foy NARPO BTP PSNI South West Regional Non- Geographic Liz Owsley Co-ordinator Regional Co-ordinator Metropolitan National Co-ordinator

Polly Rowell Kim Rowley Jane Townsley Kate Walker-Northwood Metropolitan West Midlands Regional BTP Co-ordinator & Grapevine Editor

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FEATURE et the BAWP committee members

what each member has been doing, look at the finances, discuss what is going in the next issue of Grapevine and decide the topic and content of the next Professional Development Day and any other events on the BAWP calendar.

Carolyn Williamson Julia Causer Mandy Chapman Tricia Cochrane Irene Curtis West Midlands (Rtd) Staffordshire Metropolitan Lothian & Borders Lancashire Secretary North West Regional Co-ordinator

Jane Lam Sue Lampard Joy Lott Jane Parry Surrey Surrey Gwent West Midlands Suzette Davenport Welsh Regional Staffordshire Co-ordinator Vice President

Annette Wightman Robyn Williams Angela Wilson Nicky Phillipson Metropolitan Seconded to HMIC Tayside Cambridgeshire Scotland Regional Grapevine Assistant Editor Co-ordinator

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FEATURE

Policing Tomorrow’s World B IAWP Annual Training Conference Saskatoon, Canada

felt very privileged to be invited journey over to Canada, on my own, opportunity to network and within making friends and contacts. With this to attend this conference. It was I was just glad to get into a minutes I was made to feel welcome being my first conference I had so I a bit of a last minute rush with comfortable bed. Having left the and realised many others had much enthusiasm, absorbing every me as a stand in – to the officer who miserable British weather I wasn’t travelled from all over the world, on part of it. could not attend thank you! sure what to expect, but guess what their own, for the same reasons I had. On a professional development I had heard of the IAWP rain, rain and more rain. That didn’t During the week one of the highlights level I spent the week attending (International Association of Women dampen anyone’s spirits and the next for me was the ‘All Nations Parade’. lectures. There was a varied menu of Police) but was not a member and morning I headed over to the park All 500 officers in their dress uniforms informative and really knew very little about what they where the local fire brigade were marched (in a fashion) through the educational represented. Following my long cooking breakfast. That was my first streets of Saskatoon to a fantastic lectures on welcome from the local people. Each topics country was behind their national related flag. The British contingent even made the local paper the next morning. The parade finished at the centre where the conference was officially opened. On a personal level I spent a week meeting like-minded officers from across the world Recognising the award winners Valour Award winner PC Teresa sharing experiences, Milburn with her husband Chris

approachable, accessible and BAWP Awards 2007 prepared to give constructive feedback, is available for advice and ave you or a colleague been influence the actions and opinions They must be self motivated and consultation, encourages an inspiration to others, of others, encourage and support work to enhance standard programs networking and works to support Hdemonstrated bravery or colleagues, show initiative and and services and/or add value to the advancement of women within courage, worked with the community persevere in the face of criticism or the community with innovation and the police service. or showed excellence in your work? If adversity. Potential award winners improvements. The successful • Excellence in Performance – yes why don’t you put yourself or must also show high ethical nominee must also show how she nominees must show that over an your colleague forward for a BAWP standards, how they are willing to makes herself available to the extended period of time they have award. ‘go that extra mile’, build trust and community. demonstrated outstanding work The second annual BAWP awards are able to form partnerships to • Mentoring – nominees must show performance (management or recognise the contributions and resolve issues and have a positive how they have provided assistance administrative expertise, achievements of all women in outlook. to women in the police service. investigative skills, service delivery, policing in eight categories. • Officer of the Year – nominees They must be someone who is relationship- Held in association with Jane’s must demonstrate a history of inspirational, supports and/or building, etc). This Police Review, they are the only excellence in leadership, community provides opportunities for others, should awards aimed specifically at women service, mentoring and excellence in has excellent communication and include within the police service and are performance. interpersonal open, with the exception of the police • Community Service – (may be job- skills, is staff achievement award, to both related activities or non-work police officers and police staff. volunteer or neighbourhood Nominations are now being activities). Nominees must sought from across the country for demonstrate a consistent focus on the following award categories: service to others and how they • Leadership – nominees should design and implement initiatives to show how they inspire others, act as meet community needs, including an excellent role model, positively those of individuals and groups.

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FEATURE Jane becomes IAWP d By Acting Inspector Adeba Jama vice president WELL what a great conference we had in Saskatoon, it was great to see so many officers from the UK. Let’s hope more of you can make it to Denver in 2007. This year was election year for the IAWP and I have taken s to operational issues such as on the role of Vice President. I also continue as a member of forensics, management and the IAWP Strategic Planning Committee, as we strive to put in leadership, human behaviour, place a firm strategic planning process to move the diversity and much more. It was organisation forward. difficult to choose which to go to The new co-ordinator for Region 13 is Jutta Baumgarten, a and I ended up going to those I police officer from Germany, who has been an IAWP thought would assist my career member for many years. She will be assisted as I was by PC development, those I thought Helen Rawlings from to carry out her duties as a looked interesting and those I knew member of the IAWP Board of Directors. nothing about but curiosity got the Contact Jutta at [email protected] or Helen at better of me. Officers spoke of [email protected] their experiences following tragedies such as the disaster in New Orleans. An officer Georgia officers recounted how she and her colleagues UK Officers make the local Canadian newspaper: The Star Phoenix continued working, sometimes 18 hours a day, funded for Saskatoon in such devastation. She found the support of and look forward to attending future her IAWP colleagues was there when needed. conferences. It was a well organised conference SOME OF you may remember reading about my trip to They sent parcels of basic necessities from which I found informative, educational and Georgia last November as a guest of the UN observer across the world. inspirational. mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). I was there for the signing of Overall it was a unique memorable My thanks go to Wales and Western area the constitution of the first policewomen’s association of opportunity in my career which I did not expect and the diversity team at headquarters for Georgia. Angela Joseph, a Swiss police officer working as a to be given; I am now a member of the IAWP enabling me to attend. police advisor with UNOMIG, managed to secure funding from the Government of Finland to enable her, two Georgian policewomen and a language assistant to go Saskatoon. development or advancement of women Having visited Georgia and realising how much there is to implementation of in policing. It is open to do for the police with very few resources, I know how much d innovative programs or male and female value the officers would have gained from their IAWP projects, recognised candidates and can experience. Both officers were ‘adopted’ as members of IAWP effectiveness in ‘getting include people who are by two British officers: fellow BTP officer Acting Inspector the job done’ and not directly employed by Adeba Jama and PC Lucy Moore from . acknowledged the police service. By corresponding with these officers the Georgian officers will professional credibility. not only be able to improve their English, but will also learn • Bravery Award – this award is for someone The awards will be presented at the BAWP from policing experiences within the UK. I would like to thank who distinguishes herself by an act of Professional Development Day at the Forest the other officers from the UK who have also volunteered to extraordinary selflessness, personal bravery, of Arden Hotel, Warwickshire on Tuesday April ‘adopt’ other female officers from Georgia, once I receive courage or self-sacrifice. 17, 2007. details from Georgia I will be in touch. • Police Staff Achievement Award – this The award categories mirror those of the If any other IAWP members from the UK wish to provide category is exclusively for a member of International Association of Women Police sponsorship for other women officers within Europe who police staff. Nominees must demonstrate (IAWP). However these awards which will be cannot afford the IAWP membership fee of $20 US (about outstanding or significant support for her held in Denver, Colorado in September 2007, £11) please contact me at [email protected] police service colleagues. This support may are only open to police officers with the or 07900 578615. be through leadership, job-related exception of the police staff achievement community service activities, mentoring or award. Where the winners of the BAWP excellence in performance. awards are police officers they will Winners • Special Recognition Award – automatically become the UK’s nominees for THE UK’s IAWP awards winners, who were featured in the This award will be given to an the IAWP awards. Autumn issue of Grapevine, were all at the conference. I hope individual who has with your help in nominating worthy recipients for the 2007 demonstrated outstanding • Application forms for the BAWP awards are BAWP awards I am sure we will have as many winners service to women in available to be downloaded from the BAWP travelling to Denver next year. policing having made a website www.,bawp.org The closing date for Jane Townsley, Chief Inspector British Transport Police significant contribution and applications is December 31, 2006. Winners 1st Vice President, IAWP commitment to the will be notified after February 1, 2007.

 Eileen Cahill-Canning (centre) won the police staff achievement award in 2006 GRAPEVINE Winter 2006 I 13 Grapevine Winter 2006 4/9/07 08:31 Page 14

From policewoman to businesswoman

working to good use and utilised her old The Gender Agenda was contacts too. ten years too late for one By the time her year-long contract was up she was pregnant again. “I thought what can I do woman who was forced that is flexible enough to fit around our lifestyle,” said Colette. She took the plunge and re-trained to choose between her as computer programmer and then moved into career in policing or her training and mentoring staff at an on-line Constabulary Colette has a real insight into the stockbrokers. changes being made in policing. “It was all too family. Thankfully policing Another child later Colette decided to develop late for me,” she said. “But the Gender Agenda her training skills further and eventually set up has transformed policing for people who don’t has moved on since 1991 her company The Solutions Factory – 18 months want to compromise. and very few police ago. Colette now develops bespoke training, “It is important to define what you want in life mentoring and coaching solutions for businesses and see if you can match that to what an officers are now expected and within communities across the region. “My organisation needs. It is very easy to get swept focus is on leadership and communication along and jump through other people’s hoops. to make that choice. skills,” she said. “I am often fortunate enough to You have to define who you are and what you Colette Welby shares her work with gifted women who don’t see it in want and what your values are. In short you themselves; I believe life teaches women to be have got to make life work for you whatever experience of having to natural leaders. We set goals and work towards you do.” them and I act as a sounding board for them. • Police forces in England and Wales were given carve out a new future The majority of people I mentor have just taken permission to consider applications for part- and urges all women to on a new job or extra responsibility and need a time working and job sharing in February 1994 little help, support and challenge. Once people after pilot study involving six forces be happy with their reach a certain level within an organisation, they • The Solutions Factory is about creating can begin to feel isolated, they need a exceptional learning experiences. Interested? choices whatever they are. supportive and objective environment within Contact Colette Welby at which to think things through.” [email protected] hen WPC 990 Colette Welby found More than once Colette said she considered out she was expecting her first child approaching the force to see if she could return. Have you got a life journey W back in 1991 she hoped she would be On the day she made the call to the recruiting to share? Contact Nicky able to return to the job she loved on a part- line she said she was amazed to find that even Phillipson – details time basis. However she was three years too with her six years policing and training are on page 1. early and found her request turned down by experience she would have to go straight back to Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The human square one. Her skills counted for nothing. “It resources team at the time said they wanted her was heart wrenching to get to that point,” said back, but had their hands tied. Colette. “I had been top of my year in 1986 and “I was devastated the day I handed my notice while I expected to retrain to some degree I in,” said Colette. “I thought what an earth was I didn’t think I would have to start all over going to do now. I had never considered the again.” implications that having children would have on Colette says she still needed to my career. I just wanted to join the police and strike a balance between home was blinkered to any other career or life options; and work and couldn’t become a this meant that I had not considered the lack of full-time probationer again. “I flexibility within the police force when it came to had cut a path for myself accommodating working mothers. But there was and the police rules and no way I wanted anyone else to bring up my regulations wouldn’t children, so I had to refocus on what was fit with what I important.” wanted. I needed However Colette was determined to bounce flexibility,” she said. back taking a part-time job on a local children’s With husband Steve charity project mentoring young people at risk. a chief inspector with This put her policing experiences of multi-agency Cambridgeshire 14 I GRAPEVINE Winter 2006 Grapevine Winter 2006 4/9/07 08:31 Page 15

Kim climbs Kilimanjaro

Grapevine Editor Kim Rowley got within 700 metres of Mount Kilimanjaro’s summit. It was only acute mountain sickness which stopped her reaching the top of the world’s highest freestanding mountain, as she reports…

n September I set out to walk to the top of mountain was ‘polepole’– meaning slowly. were armed with energy food. The oxygen Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, With each step you take the altitude content in the air was so thin by this point that Iwhich stands at 5895 metres. My partner increases and walkers are at risk from a life it was difficult to think straight let alone breathe James and I were accompanied by six porters threatening condition called acute mountain easily. I climbed for three hours reaching 5200 and two guides and the plan was to reach the sickness (AMS) which makes it important not metres. But my face kept swelling further and I top and back in six days. But when I confidently to rush. realised that I could not go any further. At 700 set out on day one, I don’t think I quite realised On the fourth morning I woke up in my tent metres from the top, I had to turn back to my how tough it was actually going to be. after a cold uncomfortable night at over 4000 tent. Luckily James made it to the top so I did Kilimanjaro literally means ‘snowy mountain’ metres to discover I looked like an elephant as get a photograph of the view. and for four days we had a beautiful view of my whole face had swollen. My eyes were sore I later discovered my facial swelling was a the top as we slowly made our way through and nobody knew what was wrong with me – symptom of AMS and I should have descended the foothills towards the summit. We had 4700 not even the guide. I presumed I had dust in the mountain as soon as it started. metres to climb in four days in order to be at my eyes and being determined to make the I was extremely disappointed not to have base camp in time to attempt the summit. Our top set off for base camp. We arrived at 1pm made it to the summit, but I climbed higher guide explained on the first day that the which gave me time for a sleep before the than I ever had before. I got a real sense of philosophy on the summit attempt later that night. achievement knowing that I had pushed myself At 11.30pm in freezing sub-zero beyond my limits and got very close to the top temperatures we set off. We were wearing of one of the most beautiful mountains in every layer of clothing we could find and the world.

Pictured clockwise: Kim with one of her guides Samuel; suffering the effects of AMS, the ‘snowy mountain’; the hotel where Kim stayed. GRAPEVINE Winter 2006 I 15 Grapevine Winter 2006 4/9/07 08:31 Page 16

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