Safety Net Associates have been helping clients improve their business environment and performance within the public and community safety arena with great success for many years. We do this by applying innovative processes, intelligent products and fresh thinking.
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Michelle Bernasconi | National Victims Advisor
Michelle was the first Home Office 'Taking A Stand' award winner in 2003 and is now a member of the National Victims Advisory Panel. |
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Trevor Kennett | UK Government Expert Practitioner
Trevor is one of the countries leading experts in tackling crime and anti social behaviour. He is one of a few experts in Britain with an outstanding track record in this field and is a senior advisor to the UK Government. Trevor is also a visiting Research Fellow for Public Policy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. |
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Sharon Nandoo | ASB Lawyer
Sharon is an experienced anti-social behaviour lawyer and leads a strategic community safety team for a large Registered Social Landlord group in London. Sharon is also chair of the Social Housing Law Association. |
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Mark Wear QPM | UK Government Police Expert Practitioner
Mark is a serving police officer specialising in neighbourhood policing and community engagement. He has a wealth of experience in tackling crime and anti social behaviour. He was involved in the Home Office led Together and Respect campaigns as an expert practitioner and has more recently been involved in the delivery of the Community Crime Fighters initiative. |
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Sangeeta Bhuhi | Specialist Youth Crime Advisor
Sangeeta has significant experience in community safety and youth justice fields specialising in youth crime and anti-social behaviour. She has national expertise in developing interventions to affect long term behaviour change in young people. She also has extensive experience of working with victims of domestic violence in the third sector. Sangeeta has acted as an expert practitioner for the Home Office and was seconded to DCSF Youth Task Force with specific responsibility for the implementation of Challenge and Support projects. . |
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Ian Walker MBE | UK Government Expert Practitioner
Ian is the former head of service in the London boroughs of Camden and Newham and has National expertise in housing, hate crime, and youth and drug related anti-social behaviour. Ian was awarded his MBE in 2006 for his work in tackling anti-social behaviour. |
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Alison Little | Specialist Housing Advisor
As an experienced Housing advisor Alison has considerable experience as an anti social behaviour and tenancy enforcement officer for large Registered Social Landlords and as a Housing officer for Local Authorities. |
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Steve Grainger | Specialist Police & Security Advisor
A former senior Metropolitan Police officer who has worked at strategic levels in London delivering corporate policing services that include security and VIP (Royalty) protection planning, business development, training and crime and disorder partnership. Worked at the most senior levels, with UK and international external agencies and Government agencies within the security and protection environment. |
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Ed Hall | Barrister
Edmund Hall has worked for CPS London since 1990. He prosecuted in a variety of inner London courts, developing an interest in ASB work when encountering the use of ASBOs to try to alleviate severe crime problem in the Kings Cross area. Ed has had overall responsibility for ASBO work within CPS London, and has trained extensive numbers of lawyers, police & council officers across the country. |
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Sam McConnell | UK Government Expert Practitioner
Sam has worked in community safety for nearly 30 years, as a police officer, and in the social housing sector and in local government as an ASB Coordinator and ASB Team Manager. Sam has also acted as an expert practitioner for the Home Office during the Together and Respect campaigns, taking part in the majority of the national conferences. He was also seconded to the Home Office taking on regional responsibilities for monitoring and developing delivery in identified anti-social behaviour action areas, also acting in an advisory capacity to the Youth Task Force. |
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Emma Wright | Specialist ASB Advisor & BTEC Assessor
As an Anti-social Behaviour Advisor, Emma provides guidance on anti-social behaviour tools and powers on behalf of the Home Office. Emma also gives information and advice to practitioners who deal with anti-social behaviour within communities. Emma is also one of our accredited BTEC Assessors. |
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Bob Kennett | UK Government Communications Expert
Bob is an expert in providing state of the art public interface multi-media Portals and was the National Co-ordinator of Operations and Development for the UK Police Portal and was strategic business lead as a senior detective to for the Association of Police Officers of England, Wales, Scotland, Police Service of Northern Ireland and the British Transport Police. |
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Michael Cowie | National Expert Practitioner
Michael has worked in the ASB and Housing field for 15 years, he is known nationally as an experienced ASB practitioner and trainer. Michael was invited on the expert practitioner’s panel with Housemark to help produced the Respect Standard for Housing Management Performance Tool Kit for Landlords.
Michael is currently on the board of directors with the Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group and is currently the vice chair of the ASB Study group with the Northern Housing Consortium. |
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Greg Johnson | National Expert Practitioner
Greg has worked in ASB and Housing Management for 23 years in four Local Authority areas. He co-authored the North East Safer Estates Information Exchange Protocol. He has been the chair of the Northern Housing Consortium's ASB Study Group for eight years and has been the chair of their National Conferences in Harrogate for the last two years . He was instrumental in establishing ASBO Panels in Newcastle and Gateshead and helped to establish South Tyneside's Family Intervention Project and Parenting Team. |
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Steve De Burgh Thomas | Senior Associate
A former police officer with 30 years exemplary police service with the Metropolitan Police (MPS), Police IT Organisation (PITO) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) retiring with 3 commendations for leadership and detective ability. Steve is an experienced police senior detective officer skilled in criminal investigation at local, national and international levels, including service with New Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad and Anti-terrorist Branch. |
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Joe Wadsworth | Former Deputy Borough Commander
Joe is a former Metropolitan Police Superintendent with a broad expertise in the community safety arena. He has extensive experience in crime reduction and community safety, he lead on anti social behaviour initiatives in the London Borough of Ealing and had the responsibility for reducing crime. Joe has also many years experience in public order policing, he was involved in many sporting events and celebrations. He has vast investigative experience in domestic violence, anti social behaviour and hate crime; and supervised one of the first Police Community Safety Units in the UK. |
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John Cook | National Police Trainer
A retired Detective Inspector having served for 30 years with the Metropolitan and Surrey Police Forces. A career detective working in all aspects of Criminal Investigation. John is a qualified HOLMES office manager having worked on a number of high profile murder enquiries and serious and complex investigations. John is also a qualified surveillance trained officer having worked on the Surrey Crime squad for a number of years. |
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Daren Kidson JP| National Expert Practitioner
Darren is a former local government chief officer, and head of service for two local authorities, and has national expertise in strategic development of Community Safety Partnerships, Youth intervention, Housing, & Drug related anti-social behaviour. Darren was involved in some of the first ASBO's in England, and devised the first 24 hour Witness Support service for local government to support ASB interventions. Darren is also a serving Magistrate. |
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Brendan O'Brien | National Partnership Trainer
Brendan has spent over two decades as a manager in the community justice sector, both in the UK and abroad. His areas of expertise are reducing ASB, developing partnerships, community engagement and media relations. Brendan is currently involved in pilot programmes with the Home Office and DCLG and has more recently been involved in the delivery of the Community Crime Fighters initiative. Brendan has extensive experience as a trainer, he is an NVQ assessor and internal verifier and also has a Masters in Education. |
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Mark Glover | Specialist Criminal Justice Consultant
Mark works in the private sector and has previously worked extensively with all the major criminal justice agencies. Mark has developed comprehensive risk assessments for staffing in hotels, commercial premises and isolated work premises. He is a former police supervisor from Greater Manchester Police. He has also provided consultancy to the Youth Justice Board and Crown Prosecution Service and dealt with risks and issues management.
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