Our people
We are passionate about improving public confidence in policing by ensuring the police are accountable for their actions and lessons are learnt.
Our work is challenging and high-profile, and so our people are from all sectors of society, and have a wide range of skills. Focusing on the facts, we are balanced, fair and entirely independent. We are not the police, in fact less than 20 per cent of our staff have previously worked for the police.
Our leadership team
Our Director General leads the executive team and chairs our Unitary Board, which includes five non-executive directors. Read more about the role of Unitary Board in our governance section.
By law, the Director General can never have worked for the police. None of our executive team or directors have previously worked for any of the police forces under our jurisdiction.
To find out our directors expenses, gifts and hospitality and register of interests, visit our approach to transparency page.
IOPC people
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Rachel Watson
Rachel Watson
Director GeneralRachel was appointed Director General of the IOPC by the Crown in April 2024.
Her job is to lead the IOPC in our mission to improve policing through independent oversight of the police complaints system.
Rachel has significant public service experience having worked in the heart of government for more than 20 years. This includes a decade working at the Home Office, where she was Policing Director for five years before joining the IOPC, giving her extensive knowledge of policing and policing stakeholders.
Rachel has worked in a range of Government departments before joining the Home Office, including HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs and the Department for Energy & Climate Change.
She has undertaken a variety of different roles including media relations in HM Treasury, leading organisational change in the former Identity and Passport Service and undertaking culture transformation. -
Kathie Cashell
Kathie Cashell
Deputy Director General (Strategy, Engagement and Communication)Kathie joined the organisation in 2007 and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
Kathie leads on the development and delivery of IOPC strategy, policy and standards to ensure the realisation of our vision to build trust and confidence in the police. She is responsible for increasing awareness and the effectiveness of the police complaints system, including policing policy and practice.
Kathie oversees all communications and engagement activity with the public and our stakeholders. Her areas of responsibility include legal, policy, learning, research, quality assurance and the management of super complaints.
Kathie previously worked for the Healthcare Commission where she led work to redesign the processes for handling complaints. She introduced more efficient ways of working, and the development of consistent reporting of performance and learning across the system.
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Steve Noonan
Steve Noonan
Deputy Director General (Investigations, Oversight and Casework)Steve joined the organisation in 2013, and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
He is responsible for overseeing all of the investigatory functions at the IOPC, as well as oversight of the police complaints system, and the casework team who carry out reviews of complaints.
Steve has held various senior management roles at the organisation mainly focused on investigations. He was also previously our lead for roads policing, and is our current lead for discrimination work.
Before joining us, Steve served with the Royal Military Police for 23 years, working in a variety of response roles and latterly with the Special Investigations Branch, investigating serious crimes around the globe involving service personnel. His time in the armed forces involved numerous operational tours.
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Olive Jones
Olive Jones
Director, People and ChangeOlive joined the organisation in 2024 as Director, People and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
Olive is responsible for leading the People directorate and delivering its strategy. This involves developing our employee offer, ensuring we are an employer of choice and delivering our equality, diversity, and inclusion commitments.
This role is key to ensuring change is managed effectively as we modernise the IOPC, while we support and develop our people.
Olive has predominantly worked in the public and not for profit sector including local authorities and the NHS and has a track record of delivering organisational cultural transformation and change. She is an experienced people director and joined from the National Housing Federation.
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David Cryer
David Cryer
Director, Finance and Corporate ResourcesDavid joined the IOPC in 2024.
His role is focused on modernising the IOPC though leading and developing a strategic approach to financial planning, procurement, estates and facilities, ICT, data management and business continuity.
With more than thirty years of experience in finance and strategic leadership roles, David offers a robust skill set and significant leadership skills.
For fifteen years he has been an executive working with boards across the public sector, including central government and the NHS.
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Rob Barnes
Rob Barnes
Director, TransformationRob joined the organisation in 2017, he has held several roles leading on operational improvement, delivery of major projects, strategy and business planning.
He took up the role of Director of Transformation in August 2024 and is responsible for the delivery of our Transformation Programme.
Rob’s background is in the Civil Service having worked on change programmes in the departments for Work and Pensions, and Education.
As part of the Civil Service talent programme he spent a year seconded to the National Audit office studying Operational Excellence in the Civil Service and supported other government departments with his findings.
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David Emery
David Emery
General Counsel and Chief Information Security OfficerDavid joined the organisation in 2010 as Head of Legal Services, and was appointed as General Counsel in 2019, and Chief Information Security Officer in 2023.
David is responsible for the in-house Legal team, who provide legal advice and representation across the organisation, and the Presenting Unit, who present cases at police misconduct hearings. He also oversees the Data Protection Team, who deal with subject access rights, Freedom of Information requests, data breaches, and data protection impact assessments.
Before joining us, David was a senior lawyer at the Metropolitan Police Service for seven years. Prior to that he was an associate at the International Law Firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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Amanda Rowe
Amanda Rowe
Director, EngagementAmanda joined the organisation in 2004 and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
Our three directors of engagement are responsible for developing productive relationships with stakeholders, to help make positive changes to the police complaints system, including policing policy and practice.
Amanda’s role also means she represents the IOPC when engaging with key stakeholders including policing leaders, senior partners within the policing and criminal justice system, the media, and both national and local communities.
Amanda has huge experience of the police complaints system and has held a series of senior roles at the IOPC including as a regional director and Director of Operations.
Prior to joining us, Amanda spent 18 years with HM Customs and Excise (now HMRC), working in a variety of roles including as a specialist investigator and in intelligence.
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Derrick Campbell
Derrick Campbell
Director, EngagementDerrick joined the organisation 2013, and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
Our three directors of engagement are responsible for developing productive relationships with stakeholders, to help make positive changes to the police complaints system, including policing policy and practice.
Derrick’s role also means he represents the IOPC when engaging with key stakeholders including policing leaders, senior partners within the policing and criminal justice system, the media, and both national and local communities.
Before taking up this role, Derrick was previously a regional director at the IOPC and prior to that he was a commissioner at the IPCC.
Derrick is a former Government advisor on gun and knife crime, and human trafficking. He was also a former Government ethics advisor on the National DNA Database. Derrick was also previously Chief Executive of the Rights and Equality Council, and before that was CEO of Sandwell Chamber of Commerce. He has a long history of working with communities, and founded and chaired a number of independent advisory groups including Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence 3.
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Emily Barry
Emily Barry
Director, EngagementEmily joined the organisation in 2017 and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
Our three directors of engagement are responsible for developing productive relationships with stakeholders, to help make positive changes to the police complaints system, including policing policy and practice.
Emily’s role also means she represents the IOPC when engaging with key stakeholders including policing leaders, senior partners within the policing and criminal justice system, the media, and both national and local communities.
Emily has held various senior roles at the IOPC, most recently as a regional director. She has worked in both the North West and North East regions, and is our operational lead for the IOPC VAWG programme and senior sponsor for our Safeguarding Network. She was also our technical lead for Abuse of Position for Sexual Purpose.
Prior to joining the IOPC, Emily held investigative roles at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the General Medical Council.
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Steve Oakley
Steve Oakley
Director, Strategy, Policy and ImpactSteve joined the organisation in 2004, and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
He is responsible for leading teams focused on delivering strategy; policy and research; quality, standards and guidance; business planning and public affairs.
Steve has worked in a variety of roles across the organisation, including investigations and family liaison, and he has been the strategic lead for key policy and research programmes.
Before joining us, Steve taught in secondary schools for seven years before taking up senior roles in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
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Sarah Green
Sarah Green
Hillsborough Decision MakerSarah is currently seconded to act as the decision maker for complaints and conduct allegations against the police arising from the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989.
Sarah is the senior sponsor for the IOPC Age and Pride LGBTQ+ staff networks.
Prior to joining the IOPC, she was Head of Legal Services at the East of England Development Agency. Before that, Sarah Green was an area solicitor for the eastern region of the Legal Aid Board and then held a number of senior management roles nationally within the Legal Services Commission.
Before moving to the public sector, she worked as a litigator for a large solicitors’ firm representing trade union clients, including leading a national team responsible for private criminal prosecutions on behalf of public sector employees assaulted at work.
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David Ford
David Ford
Director, Oversight and CaseworkDavid joined the organisation in 2004, and was appointed to this role in January 2025.
David leads the IOPC’s oversight of the police complaints system, to help influence and drive improvements in the system and policing practice.
Another key area of responsibility is casework, this is where complaints and Death and Serious Injury cases that have been investigated by police forces are reviewed. This helps to ensure compliance within the system, individual accountability and improves policing by identifying and sharing learning.
David has previously worked in a variety of senior roles, and is very experienced in the areas of investigations and casework. Prior to this role he was the director with responsibility for Wales and the South West.
David had overall responsibility for the design and implementation of our case management system, which supports our operational delivery. He remains the business lead as part of our cycle of continuous improvement for the platform.
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Julia Mulligan
Julia Mulligan
Non-Executive DirectorHaving served for nearly nine years as a Police and Crime Commissioner, Julia is an experienced, senior leader in the policing sector. Following her decision to stand down in May 2021, she now holds a number of senior roles including Non-Executive Director for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, which works to protect vulnerable and exploited workers. Julia is also a member of Dame Sara Thornton’s Advisory Panel, which provides support to the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.
With a long-standing interest in supporting victims, Julia is Chair of IDAS, one of the largest specialist domestic abuse charities in the North of England. In September 2020, she joined the Parole Board as an Independent Member, and in March 2021 was appointed by the Home Secretary as the Independent Chair of the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales.
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Christine Elliott
Christine Elliott
Non-Executive DirectorChristine, whose term as Acting Chair of the College of Policing ended in December 2020, was the College's first independent director. Appointed in 2015, she is a proven senior leader with substantial chairing and non-executive experience.
Christine is also Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council, which regulates fifteen professions; and is an independent lay member of the Editors' Code Committee, which reviews and revises the Code used by all UK press regulators. Her career encompasses public, private and non-profit sectors. A signature role was as Director at the previously unknown and heavily indebted, WW2 code breaking site, Bletchley Park, which she built into an innovative organisation that became internationally renowned and received millions of government infrastructure investment and private donations.
Christine is on the Advisory Board of Trybe.ID, a digital identity and credentialing platform headquartered in Toronto, Canada. She chairs the Advisory Board of Albeego Ltd. a British mobile telecoms firm providing digital devices with stable, secure internet connectivity.
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Suzanne Jacob OBE
Suzanne Jacob OBE
Non-Executive DirectorSuzanne previously spent more than six years as chief executive at domestic abuse charity SafeLives. There, she developed and published the charity’s first public strategy; oversaw delivery of the DA Matters culture change programme for tens of thousands of police first responders; achieved changes in legislation; made survivor voice an integral part of the charity’s work; and influenced decision makers to think about domestic abuse in a far more holistic way.
Prior to joining SafeLives, Suzanne spent nearly a decade with the Home Office. She worked extensively on national security matters; established the National Crime Agency as a significant new part of UK law enforcement; and acted as private secretary to the minister responsible for crime and policing. Suzanne worked for several years on security for the London 2012 Olympics, and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for her work on intelligence collection, analysis, and enforcement activity.
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Rommel Moseley
Rommel Moseley
Non-Executive DirectorRommel’s professional experience is in business development, service design and change management. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of corporate, government and charity partnerships – having spent 20 years negotiating and delivering complex, mutually beneficial partnerships.
Rommel is currently Executive Director of Croda Foundation the philanthropic arm of FTSE100 Croda International Plc.
He is a former Director at Drinkaware where he developed partnerships across government, including with the Home Office, local authorities and Police and Crime Commissioners, to reduce harm to young people in the night-time economy.
Rommel served as the Vice Chair of the London Night-time Commission, having been appointed by the Mayor of London to join the commission and provide independent advice. He chaired the Research and Data Group which provided all insights and data to allow the Commission to make evidence-based recommendations.
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Clive Quantrill
Clive Quantrill
Non-Executive DirectorAs a senior partner at Cambridge Management Consulting, and from his previous director level roles focused on strategy and transformation at BT, Clive brings a wealth of experience in organisation development and digital transformation.
Clive looks forward to supporting the IOPC’s critical work such as standard setting, sharing learning, and community engagement to ensure it delivers its vision that everyone is able to have trust and confidence in the police.
Our Values
We respect the rights of all individuals, while getting to the heart of some of the most serious and sensitive cases. Most of all, we strive to gain and retain the confidence of everyone we meet by treating them with respect, integrity and honesty.
We explore the facts to gain a deeper understanding.
We treat everyone with equity and value their perspective.
We trust our people and provide a supportive environment.
We overcome challenges to reach our goals.
We are passionate about improving policing and
public confidence.