Specialist on traveller issues appointed Deputy Chief

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An authority on Gypsy and Traveller issues has been appointed as the next Deputy Chief Constable of Cheshire.

Janette McCormick, previously acting Deputy Chief Constable for the Force, took up her new appointment on Monday July 7th.

She is currently the national police spokesperson for Gypsies and Irish Traveller issues, and regional lead for Public Order and Operational Communications.

Janette is also an assessor for the Strategic Public Order Command (which trains all specialist officers in this field), has been a strategic public order and firearms commander since 2008 and completed the Gold Incident Commanders Course.

For the past three years she has chaired Cheshire′s Local Resilience Forum which brings emergency and voluntary responders together, such as the Local Authorities, Health, Fire, Highway and Utilities, to plan and respond to emergencies and test plans in relation to our many industrial sites. In this capacity, she led the planning for Olympic events across the county in 2012.

In her previous role, she was responsible for the Constabulary′s uniformed specialist resources (dogs, firearms, public order, underwater), and played a leading role in creating the joint Cheshire North Wales Firearms Alliance which was recently launched to provide a more joined up police response to incidents on the border between the two forces.

Janette has taken responsibility for the development of the Constabulary′s new strategies for drugs, mental health and alcohol. As part of this she is involved in a number of stakeholder and partnership groups across Cheshire, Warrington and Halton and has supported the Altogether Better initiative in West Cheshire aimed at improving the way in which services are delivered to vulnerable families.

She said: "I thoroughly enjoy working with such an excellent team of officers and staff who are fully committed to serving the public of Cheshire. I am delighted and proud to be selected so that I can continue to help lead that team."

Chief Constable Simon Byrne said: "I am really pleased that Janette has been appointed and I am very confident that she will make a significant contribution to delivering outstanding policing for the communities of Cheshire."

Janette joined Greater Manchester Police in 1989. Having worked in areas across Greater Manchester, including leading on roads policing, neighbourhood policing and communications, she transferred to Cheshire Constabulary in 2010 as Assistant Chief Constable.

Photo: Chief Constable for Cheshire Simon Byrne congratulates Janette McCormick on her appointment as Deputy Chief Constable.

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Sarah Lane
Saturday 19th July 2014 at 6:43 am
Perhaps she could pop down to the never ending camp set up in Handforth near Tesco and M&S. That area needs sorting out properly as its currently got another caravan club illegally in residence. It's about time it was dealt with.