Edward Smithwick Email & Phone Number

Liverpool, Gb

Westminster / Liverpool

My role with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) is to support and advise directly elected PCCs on:▪︎Prevention; ▪︎Bluelight Collaboration; ▪︎Police and Fire Governance; and ▪︎Mental Health & Custody.This exciting role includes line management responsibilities of policy and research team.In 2017, the government passed legislation enabling PCCs to replace Fire & Rescue Authorities, subject to Home Secretary approval. My role is to advise and support PCCs with business cases and consultations, and to liaise with the Home Office. To date, 5 PCCs have successfully received Home Secretary approval. Additionally, I work alongside PCCs on bluelight collaboration, identifying barriers and solutions and working with fire, police and health leads to develop national tools and guidance. I am also responsible for overseeing the Mental Health and Custody portfolio. This involves liaising with PCCs to influence national decision making and policy including the Right Care, Right Person approach, as well as engaging with national stakeholders, with the aim of improving delivery of services to people suffering from mental health issues within the criminal justice system and freeing up police resources.

Leading the APCC Safer Communities group to maximise collaboration between seven policy managers with the aim of supporting delivery of the APCC Strategic Plan.

Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

(Maternity Cover) Senior Policy and Research Officer - responsible for horizon scanning, stakeholder management, inspection reports and management of Policy and Research Assistants. I also act as PCC's lead for commissioning restorative justice and serve as the PCC's strategic lead for the Independent Custody Visiting scheme. I have recently completed a PGCERT in Advanced Policing Studies. Participation in this study included working with Merseyside Police to deliver bespoke research on cyber-crime to bring forwards the police approach to this developing area of crime. This research has been selected to feature on the College of Policing's Police National Library for policing professionals to utilise.

Merseyside

Working for the Rt Hon Jane Kennedy, Merseyside's first directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner following the November 2012 election.Duties include researching criminal justice issues and briefing the Commissioner. Research covers a range of topics including the work of parners as I am responsible for forging links with criminal justice agencies and others such as housing and health.Information supplied to the Commissioner must be accurate and timely as it is used by the Commissioner when answering questions from the public, media or other politicians. My other responsibilities include managing a Horizon Scanning process by researching legislation and reforms in order to brief the Commissioner. Information I supply is used to help inform decision making and lobby Parliament.I administer Merseyside Community Safety Partnership on behalf of the Commissioner. My role is to ensure criminal justice partners - including prisons, probation, police, health and youth offending teams are aware of funding issues, strategies and communications from the Commissioner. To fulfill this role I act as gatekeeper to the Partnership, ensuring the Commissioner, chief executive and partners adhere to the meeting's governance. I ensure that the work of the Partnership is aligned to the Commisssioner`s Police and Crime Plan through the agendas and reports I provide.I have successfully delivered a commissioning tender to appoint a restorative justice delivery partner for Merseyside. This project included managing a £50,000 budget, creating a specification for tender, responding to queries and assessing applications. This service went live on 1st July 2015. I also led a project to implement new anti-social behaviour legislation. I manage a custody visitor scheme. Further to this I update the Commissioner's Twitter account ( @merseysidepcc), website and provide content for speeches.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Responsible for meeting with Merseyside Police, Community Safety Partnerships, voluntary sector, working with elected and non-elected members, monitoring performance, report writing, auditing, risk register monitoring, change management, research, transition to Police and Crime Commissioners project management, managing community crime reduction funding. Also responsible for working on @Merseysidepcc twitter account, promoting the new post of directly elected Police & Crime Commissioner and making the public aware of changes to policing as a result of the Police Reform & Social Responsibility Act 2011.

Wirral West

Research a range of topics, policies, host meetings, manage diary, liaise with politicians and Ministers, respond to enquiries both constituency and non-constituency based and attend meetings on behalf of MP. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working for Stephen Hesford MP. This was a high profile role and I was responsible for ensuring the MP maintained an excellent public profile and briefing him on a daily basis on a range of topics, ensuring any information I passed on was reliable and accurate.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

With responsibility for managing a caseload of benefits appeals for an area of the North West of England; my role was to plan and organise tribunal hearings within a national target framework. To effectively fulfil this responsibility and ensure vulnerable people's appeals were heard in a timely manner, I worked alongside legally qualified Chairmen, Government departments, legal representatives and the public, whilst ensuring customer confidentiality. This was very much a varied and people focused role that required excellent communication skills; be it collecting evidence or ensuring that queries were answered and dealt with efficiently.At times I was expected to clerk tribunal proceedings, this involved meeting the public, taking accurate minutes, handling expenses and performing health and safety checks, whilst maintaining a high standard of customer service.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

As an Administration Assistant I was responsible for the accurate registration of appellant’sappeal details onto a specialised computer system. The role required excellent levels of accuracy the ability to work at speed and under pressure. It was important to build contacts within other Government departments with whom I could request vital information.Additionally, I volunteered to train new members of staff and after developing my experience in this role I was given the responsibility of Interim Team Leader, which involved managing the Administration Team, meeting with Senior Management and providing solutions to any problems encountered.My dedication and commitment to this role ultimately led to my promotion to Administration Officer.

Pg Cert, Advanced Policing Studies, First, Distinction

This Post Graduate course ran for 9 months and was funded by the College of Policing and the Higher Education Funding Council. The course.

Project Management

Politics, Political Science, 2:1

Politics

A Levels

Activities and Societies: Politics, History & English. A Levels

Gcses, Gcses

GCSEs