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Appointments to the Independent Advisory Panel on Non Compliance Management


24 January 2013

Detention and medical experts have been appointed to a new Independent Advisory Panel to provide independent advice to the UK Border Agency.

The 6 member panel will look at the quality and safety of the training package for officers dealing with detainees who are non-compliant or violent while under escort, and in particular at the proposed use of force techniques. This is to ensure we use the safest and most appropriate methods for returning individuals to their country of origin.

The chair and members of the Independent Advisory Panel on Non Compliance Management have now been appointed:

Chair:

  • Mr Stephen Shaw previously served as the chief executive of the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator and is a former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales.

Members:

  • Dr Daniel Albert is currently the clinical lead GP for homeless people and asylum seekers for Leeds Community Healthcare, a practising rural hospital medical practitioner for Dumfries and Galloway Health Board and a non-executive director for Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group.
  • Dr David Chinn is a practising medical practitioner for HMP Peterborough and honorary board director for the charity Drinksense with long previous experience in Primary Care and substance misuse services.
  • Mr Kevin Lockyer is currently an independent management consultant providing advice to organisations in the criminal justice and offender management sectors. Kevin is also a former prison governor.
  • Dr June-Alison Sealy is a magistrate, chairs the adult court and is a member of the family panel for inner London. She has held a number of senior level roles at the CBI prior to retiring in July 2012, and has a successful track record of working in the private and voluntary sectors.
  • Dr Richard Shepherd is currently a member of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody, a visiting professor at City University and an honorary consultant in forensic pathology for the Royal Liverpool Hospital.