The Community Safety Podcast

For over 25 years, Sharon Bryan has worked in the field of domestic abuse. She is also a survivor of domestic abuse. In 2020. Sharon set up Sharon Bryan consultancy, a community interest company which involves running the Freedom Programme for women who have experienced domestic abuse. In January 2021, Sharon joined the award-winning National Centre for Domestic Violence as head of partnerships and development for domestic abuse services...

Kathleen O’Toole who is the ex-Chief of Boston and Seattle Police Departments and also the first Chief Inspector of the Garda Inspectorate in Ireland, established to ensure that Garda operates effectively and efficiently. 

Today The Community Safety Podcast explores policing and good quality leadership.

Comprehensive Show Notes to follow.

Bonus Episode

Iain Donnelly

Former Superintendant of West Midlands Police,

Iain Donnelly, has over 25 years in various intelligence, covert policing,

counter-terrorism, and serious crime investigation roles in London and the West

Midlands...

Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D 

Carl Chinn, MBA Ph.D. Carl is a social historian with a national profile, a writer, a teacher, an animator, and a public speaker. He was formerly a professor of Community History at the University of Birmingham, and director of Birmingham Lives Project collecting working-class memories as a freelance social historian. He gives history tours of Birmingham and collaborates on local history projects in several schools...

Alison Cope

The biggest trauma Alison Cope has ever faced was losing her son Joshua to knife crime in 2013, but she uses her resilience and strength to educate and support others in seeing a future beyond negative experiences. Alison presents the Joshua Ribera Achievement Awards that recognises and celebrates the achievements of young people who are not in mainstream education...

Caroline Goode QPM

Caroline Goode served for 33 years in the Metropolitan Police in London. She retired as a Detective Superintendent in the Counter-Terrorism Command after spending ten years leading more than 100 complex murder investigations. One of those investigations, the so-called honour killing of a young Iraqi Kurdish woman by her family, was to become a life changer for Caroline...

Paul Walmsley 

Paul Walmsley, a qualified life coach, humanistic counsellor, and NLP practitioner and previously ‘Britain's Most Wanted’ criminal and spent five years on the run from the police before handing himself in in 2011. Towards the end of his ten-year prison sentence, he completed a teacher training qualification, then went on to become a tutor at a sports academy before being released on license in July 2016...

Nazir Afzal 

Nazir Afzal OBE was Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, and most recently, he was Chief Executive of the country’s Police & Crime Commissioners. During a 24 year career, he has prosecuted some of the most high-profile cases in the country, including the so-called Rochdale grooming gang, and led nationally on several legal topics, notably violence against women and girls, child sexual abuse, and honor-based violence...

Anyone can be a target of Domestic Abuse with Samantha Beckinsale 

Samantha Beckinsale is an English actor best known for performances Firefighter Kate Stevens in the ITV series drama London's burning which ran from 1986 to 2002. She started her acting career with the TV series Agatha Christie's, the adventure of Johnny Waverley in 1989.  Sam is also known for playing Lesley in the sitcom Shelley from 1989 to 1992...

Violence and how we can tackle it in our communities with Graham Goulden

Graham is a former Chief Inspector with Police Scotland, and he spent the last part of his 30 years of service working on the violence reduction unit. He's now a consultant trainer...