Events

Black History Month Event 2025: Trust, Performance and the Future of Public Service

Speaker: Alison Heydari

Our Black History Month Event for 2025 is with Dr Alison Heydari: Nuffield College Visiting Fellow, T/Deputy Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service and Director for the Police Race Action Plan.

Alison Heydari was appointed as Director for the Police Race Action Plan in 2023, which sees her driving a national change programme necessary to address critically low levels of trust and confidence in Black communities and improve operational effectiveness. Her varied career as a detective and in uniform roles include Public Protection, geographic commander and emergency response commander. Alison has managed impactive community issues, driven the strategic response to hate crime, harmful practices and improving victim care, and was a crisis Negotiator for eight years. Her policing imperative is to utilise the tenets of Procedural Justice to cocreate solutions to community problems, build legitimacy and stakeholder trust, reduce harm to communities and meet the need for greater equity in criminal justice outcomes.

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