Our people

Julia Mulligan

Having 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.

Christine Elliott

Christine, 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.

Deborah Bowman

Professor Deborah Bowman is Emeritus Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St. George's University of London where she also held the role of Deputy Principal until November 2020, with particular responsibility for organisational culture, public engagement, quality and partnerships and equality, diversity and inclusion. Deborah now has a portfolio career.

She holds several non-executive, trustee and advisory roles, including serving on the Boards of the Human Tissue Authority, South West London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust, Princess Alice Hospice and the General Osteopathic Council. She sits as a panel chair for the United Kingdom Council on Psychotherapy and chairs clinical ethics committees, both regional and national. Deborah continues to work as a consultant, coach, broadcaster and researcher.

Rommel Moseley

Rommel’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.

Catherine Jervis

Catherine has held a range of Board level positions, she has worked in the public, not for profit and private sectors and has a broad skills base with recognised strategic insight and financial and governance expertise.  She is currently Deputy Chair and Non-Executive Director at Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust,  Non-Executive Director and SID with Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Vice Chair  and NEID at Achieving for Children a Community Interest Company. Prior to this Catherine was an executive director and Strategic Advisor to the CEO of a national education charity (AFA) established to maximise educational outcomes for children and young people with SEND and at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP led the Children’s Services Team working across education, health and social care. Catherine is a qualified accountant.

Bill Matthews

Bill began his career as an engineer before progressing into business and operations management roles with Motorola. He then spent five years running technology start-ups before building a portfolio of non-executive roles spanning media, health and criminal justice.

Previously a member of the BBC Trust and Chair of the BBC Pension Scheme, Bill now chairs the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, is a Non-Executive Director at the Scottish Futures Trust and the Scottish Member of the British Transport Police Authority. A Chartered Engineer, Bill also holds an MBA and Bachelors degrees in Humanities and Psychology.

Deputy Director General, Strategy and Corporate Services - Tom Whiting

Tom joined the IOPC in February 2019 as the new Deputy Director General Strategy and Corporate Services.

Prior to this he spent 14 years in Local Government at the London Borough of Harrow, most recently as their Interim Chief Executive from January 2018. He was Corporate Director of Resources from 2013-18 and was Assistant Chief Executive from 2008. During this time Tom led on the Council Improvement Programme that saw Harrow win multiple industry awards including the most Improved Council in the country in 2011 and further awards for customer service digitalisation and IT transformation in 2016.

From 2010 until leaving, he was responsible for the Council’s savings and transformation programmes in response to reduced public sector funding. These programmes were recognised for not only delivering efficiency and saving money but also for improving services and improving satisfaction for residents. In 2013 he led the modernisation and restructuring of the Finance, Human Resources and Procurement functions, the development of shared services for Legal and Procurement and the development of digital and self service customer channels across all areas. These shared services were pioneering in the sector and led to the creation of the largest Legal in-house service in the country. He also led the re-let of the Council’s outsourced ICT contract in 2015.

As Interim Chief Executive he led for West London Local Government on improved integration between Health and Social Care Services and oversaw the transition to the new Basic Command Unit structure working with the Police, with the merger of three Boroughs. He has throughout his time at Harrow worked closely with local residents and local community and voluntary organisations as an ambassador for the Council and as a result improved public perception and confidence. He also led external lobbying and stakeholder relations for Harrow about Local Government funding and oversaw new programmes to transform Adult Social Care.

Tom graduated in 1996 and worked at Accenture for nine years in their Energy and Utilities practice, specialising in mergers and acquisitions and the deregulation of utility and energy markets in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

Director, Strategy and Impact – Kathie Cashell

Kathie joined the organisation on secondment in October 2007 and was appointed permanently in April 2009. She led the development and implementation of a performance framework for the police complaints system and, since then, has held a number of roles at the IPCC. Kathie has worked in strategy and projects, corporate planning, policy and engagement and most recently, as Head of Analytical Services.

She now leads the Strategy and Impact directorate so that it is an effective mechanism for ensuring that our work helps to improve the complaints system and policing as a whole and public confidence in it, and ensure that our work and impact are effectively communicated both internally and externally.

Before joining, Kathie worked for the Healthcare Commission leading a number of teams within the NHS complaints function. She led work to redesign the processes for handling complaints, introducing more efficient ways of working, and developing consistent reporting of performance and learning across the system. Kathie also has experience as a business manager in the private sector creating a successful international recruitment business in the UK, Australia and Canada. 

Director, People - Liz Booth

Liz Booth joined the IOPC in September 2018 as Director, People.  She leads a team responsible for Human Resources (HR), Organisational Development, and Learning and Development. Liz has been a Board Level director in charities, regulation, the civil service and the NHS, and has a particular interest in equalities and staff engagement.  At the IOPC Liz is championing our new equality delivery strategy and focusing on making IOPC a great place to work.  Our staff survey results show great promise and Liz is determined to ensure that every person who works for the IOPC is able to fulfil their potential.

As HR Director of the NSPCC she worked on a significant charity merger and led work to find recruitment methodologies to determine the values and attitudes of people who wish to work with children.  At the Royal College of GPs Liz managed a change programme that enabled the organisation to modernise and peruse a new strategic agenda.  In the NHS, working in an acute hospital she started staff engagement and recognition programmes and launched a new approach to diversity and inclusion to improve the retention of an international workforce.

Liz is the former vice chair of the charity Sense, serving as chair of the audit committee and chair of the remuneration and governance committee.  She is passionate about enabling people who are disabled or marginalised to have a voice in society.

Director, Operations - Amanda Rowe

Amanda joined the IPCC in 2004 as an investigator and has progressed through the ranks, working as a senior investigator, Head of Training for Operations, Deputy Director for Operations, Acting Director of Major Investigations, and Regional Director for the North West – before taking on her current role. 

Prior to the IPCC Amanda spent 18 years with HM Customs and Excise (now HMRC), working in a variety of roles including as a specialist investigator working on large scale drug importation investigations. She went on to work in the intelligence function.

Miranda Biddle – Director, Operations

Miranda joined the organisation in 2018 from the Parole Board, where she was Director of Operations, responsible for the operational delivery of the board’s work in delivering independent risk assessments to determine if prisoners can be safely released. 

Before joining the Parole Board Miranda was Deputy Director of HM Prison Peterborough, having worked in a number of establishments. Miranda has worked within the Criminal Justice System for over 25 years across the prison service, probation service, psychology and drug services and within the statutory, independent and private sectors. 

Prior to her current role, Miranda was Regional Director for the North East.

A map and table outlining the police forces and any other agencies overseen by each director can be found at the bottom of this page under our regional structure.

Interim Regional Director, North West – Catherine Bates 

Catherine joined the IPCC in 2006 as a lead investigator where she secured a wealth of experience investigating a wide variety of high profile and complex investigations. She joined the Hillsborough investigation in 2013 and worked as a Deputy Senior Investigator and Senior Investigator with responsibilities including disclosure, the Major Incident Room, and complaints. For the last five years, Catherine has worked as an Operations Manager for the North-West acting as a senior decision-maker on serious and complex investigations.  

Catherine has a MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice and has a background in the civil service.

Interim Regional Director, North East – Thea Walton

Thea joined the IPCC in 2013 as Head of Casework, leading the team’s handling of appeals, referrals and engagement with forces over complaints handling. Thea set up and established the IOPC’s oversight function – which oversees how all forces in England and Wales handle complaints. This included data capture from forces, local engagement and provision of additional support and guidance – as well as working with PCC’s locally to hold forces to account for their complaints handling. More recently, Thea’s role expanded to oversee standards and our Quality and Service Improvement function. During this time, the organisation has achieved Customer Service Excellence accreditation and launched a new internal Quality Assurance Framework. 

Before joining the IOPC, Thea was Deputy Prisons and Probation Ombudsman responsible for investigations into deaths in prison custody, probation approved premises, immigration and detention centres and children’s secure training centres. During her tenure, Thea led learning work to improve suicide prevention in prisons, improvements to palliative care and the treatment of families in the aftermath of a death. Thea led work on the experiences of vulnerable women in the criminal justice system for a number of years, as well as studying issues and this is a particular passion of hers. Thea is also our strategic lead for our work on Violence against Women and Girls.

Director for Wales – Catrin Evans

David Ford job shares the role of Director for Wales.

Catrin joined the organisation in 2018 from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) where she enjoyed a varied career as a prosecutor advocate and senior leader for nearly 31 years.

Catrin’s last role at the CPS was Senior District Crown Prosecutor with responsibility for all criminal prosecutions in the Crown Court in the Cymru Wales Area. She has previously led a successful complex casework unit prosecuting a number of high profile cases. As a member of the Area strategic Board, Catrin has contributed to driving forward early implementation of digital working.

Catrin is passionate about tackling human trafficking and she has contributed to the work done agreeing Prosecutor commitments to ensure that Prosecuting Authorities in the UK will work closely together and with our law enforcement partners to disrupt networks, prosecute traffickers and protect victims’ rights. Catrin has been commended for the work done in Wales prosecuting forced labour prosecutions and is a member of the Cymru/Wales multi-agency anti-slavery leadership group.

Catrin is a fluent Welsh speaker and conducts business through Welsh and English.

Director for Wales – David Ford

Catrin Evans job shares the role of Director for Wales. 

David joined the then IPCC in 2004 and has worked in a variety of operational roles over the years, including Investigator, Head of Casework and most latterly Head of National Operations.  During 2019/20, David covered the role of IOPC Regional Director North East.  He was appointed as joint Director for Wales / Regional Director South West alongside Catrin Evans in July 2021. 

Based in the Cardiff office, David has oversight responsibility for Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and Dorset.  He meets regularly with Senior officers and the Police and Crime Commissioner from each force to ensure effective communication and to facilitate the sharing of transparent and sound working practices.  

David’s other substantive role is the IOPC’s Senior Sponsor for the project to source and secure implementation of a new Case Management System.  Integral to the successful running of the IOPC, the importance of identifying a supplier and system which will meet organisational needs cannot be overestimated. This project is expected to continue until mid-2023.  

Regional Director, Midlands – Derrick Campbell

Prior to taking up his role as a Regional Director at the IOPC, Derrick was an IPCC Commissioner, having joined the organisation in January 2013. Like all operational commissioners, Derrick was responsible for providing independent oversight of, and taking ultimate responsibility for, our investigations, casework and the promotion of public confidence in the complaints system.

Derrick was 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 in the UK, and founded and chaired a number of Independent Advisory Groups including Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence 3. He also chaired the National Independent Advisory Group, advising the government on violent crime and anti-social behaviour and he sat on the national DNA Database Ethics Group from 2008-2013.

Interim Regional Director, South East – Graham Beesley

Graham joined the IPCC in May 2004 as an Investigator in our London Office and rose to jointly lead the Croydon office as an Operations Manager. Graham was integral to establishing the IPCC training team and accreditation programme which is still championed within the IOPC today. He brings a wealth of operational and leadership experience to his post having been involved in and overseen a large number of high profile and complex investigations throughout his career. 

Prior to joining, he served with her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Following this, he spent six years as an operator and team leader running covert surveillance operations in the UK and overseas. Graham is our national lead for marauding terrorist attacks and counter terrorism. He is dedicated to stakeholder engagement, the welfare and continuous development of our people and organisation and improving public confidence in policing.

Regional Director for London - Sal Naseem 

Sal joined the IPCC in January 2015 as a Senior Assessment Manager and rose to lead the team as Head of Assessment Unit. In that role Sal successfully led the Assessment Unit to sustained year on year performance improvement. Under his leadership, the Unit received a Civil Service Award in recognition of its exceptional contribution to the Operational Delivery Profession. In his current role Sal leads the organisation’s thematic work looking at discrimination. 

Before joining the organisation Sal held management positions in a number of different regulatory environments which included Ofqual, the Legal Ombudsman and the Audit Commission. 

Since taking post Sal has championed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and ensures these principles are woven into his work for the organisation.

Director, Directorate of Major Investigations (DMI) - Steve Noonan

Steve joined the IPCC in 2013 transitioning into the IOPC in 2018. He has held various roles within the Operations Directorate and been the Director of Major Investigations within the IOPC’s Directorate of Major Investigations (DMI) since 2019. Within his current portfolio are the IOPC’s Major Investigation capability, Anti-Corruption, Digital Investigation, and Intelligence functions. He is the also the IOPC’s strategic lead for roads policing. 

Prior to his current role he was an Acting Deputy Director in the IPCC, an Operations Manager in our Sale Office, working with Forces in the North West of England, and leading on national change and continuous improvement projects. 

Before joining the IOPC Steve served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces with Royal Military Police for 23 years, working in a variety of response roles and latterly with the Special Investigations Branch (SIB) investigating serious crime around the globe involving service personnel.  His time in the armed forces involved operational numerous tours including Iraq, where he was responsible for leading war crimes and coronial investigations.

Hillsborough Decision Maker – Sarah Green

Sarah 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. 

Her substantive role is Regional Director for the South East.  

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. 

Expenses

View the expenses report for the Directors of the IOPC 2022/23.

The Director General and Non-Executive Director expenses are approved by the Head of Chief Executive’s Office and the expenses of Executive Directors are approved by the relevant line manager. To ensure that expenditure on accommodation and travel provides value for money the IOPC uses the Crown Commercial Services frameworks.

Gifts and hospitality

Gifts and hospitality register (April to September 2021/22)

Gifts and hospitality register (April to March 2020/21)

Gifts and hospitality register (April to March 2019/20)

Register of interests

IOPC board and director register of interests - July 2021