City Links Leaders' Forum - Feedback
On Monday 2nd February 2009, the City Links Leaders' Forum took place in Salford. Guest speakers for the event included Chief Constable Matt Baggott, of Leicestershire Police, and Chief Constable Peter Fahy of Greater Manchester Police. (see their profiles below)
Read a full report of the day here.
Speakers profiles:
Chief Constable Peter Fahy:
Peter Fahy grew up in East London and joined the police in 1981. Prior to taking up his post with GMP he worked in Surrey, Hertfordshire and West Midlands and served for five years as Chief Constable of Cheshire. He has had wide experience of policing inner city and rural areas and has held command positions at Coventry, Smethwick and Solihull. Throughout his career as a chief officer he has been a strong advocate of police reform and innovation. He has experience of leading murder investigations and major complaint enquiries.
As Chief Constable of Cheshire he implemented a major change programme to establish neighbourhood policing units across the county and strengthen the intelligence led effort. He has overseen the opening of the new force headquarters and PFI custody.
Peter Fahy is 49 and married with four children. He holds an Honours degree in French and Spanish from Hull University and a Masters degree in Human Resource Strategy from the University of East Anglia and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in January 2004. He has been a governor at various schools for 12 years. He is Chairman of the Cheshire Youth Federation and a member of the County Scout Council. Nationally he chaired the ACPO Race and Diversity Business Area for four years, leading work on meeting the recommendation of the CRE investigation into the Police Service and taking forward work on a number of policy areas including community cohesion, hate crime and fairness in the criminal justice system. He also leads work on the Special Constabulary, which has seen a significant increase in numbers of volunteers and is working with other agencies on reform of the coroners’ system. In 2006 he was appointed Director of the Strategic Command Course at Bramshi ll and took up the ACPO Leadership Portfolio carrying out work with NPIA and others on a national leadership strategy. In April 2008 he became chair of the ACPO Workforce Development Business Area.
 Chief Constable Matt Baggott:
Matt Baggott joined the Leicestershire Constabulary on promotion to Chief Constable in December 2002.
Matt was Vice President of the Association of Chief Police Officers 2004-07 and continues to lead on the national roll out of neighbourhood policing with a full-time team based in London. He is a member of the National Policing Board and advises Government on a range of issues from partnership through to social cohesion. He is also working with Sir Ronnie Flanagan on the National Review of Policing.
Matt spent the first twenty years of his service in the Metropolitan Police, where his career was operationally focused in the inner city, notably Tooting, Brixton and Peckham, as well as leading policy reviews on issues such as partnership, regeneration and inner city crime. For 18 months he was Staff Officer to the then Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, and headed the Metropolitan Police team assisting the Stephen Lawrence Public Inquiry.
Matt was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Years Honours. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in June 2004, elected a Fellow of University College London in 2006, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by De Montfort University, Leicester, in July 2007. He is President of the Christian Police Association, and Vice President of the National Association of Police Chaplains. Until recently he was also a Trustee of Crime Concern for many years.
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