Environmental Crime
Speakers
Tony Poole Tony Poole is Head of the Local Environmental Quality Team in Defra taking up his post shortly before Christmas 2007. Previously Tony was in Defra’s Rural Policy Division working with the rural voluntary and community sector and with other government departments on community development and policy on rural proofing. For two years he was programme manager for the Rural Social and Community Programme, which sought to build the capacity of rural communities and the third sector bodies that work for them, collaborating with parish councils, local authorities and Government Offices for the Regions. In former posts in Defra Tony has represented the UK in negotiations in Brussels on issues ranging from conservation of plant genetic resources to import duties and World Trade Organisation agreements. |
Nick Bethel Nick Bethel is a Waste Policy Manager at the Environment Agency. He has policy responsibility for international movements of waste, hazardous waste and waste crime. The role is best described as minimising the environmental and health impacts of the stuff that you and I throw away in our dustbin and that industry and commerce throw away on our behalf. Nick and his team achieve this by working closely with Government who set the policy and legal framework, other regulators and enforcement bodies as well as key stakeholders in Industry. Nick has been with the Environment Agency since its formation in 1996, having transferred in from Gloucestershire County Council where he worked in waste management.
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Jo Gordon Jo is the HORDD for London and took up post on 1 October. She is responsible, working in partnership with others, for the delivery of the Home Office objectives on crime and drugs across London. She is also responsible for the development, performance management and monitoring of Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreement in the London North sub-region and has lead policy responsibility for community cohesion, preventing extremism and the Third Sector. Before moving to GOL earlier this year, Jo spent nearly nine years at the Home Office and Prison Service. This included acting as an Adviser to the Active Communities Unit, and working in Prisoner Administration and the National Offender Management Service. Jo has also worked with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills. Prior to joining the Civil Service, Jo worked at a senior level in a range of voluntary and community sector agencies such as Nacro, CSV and NCVO and has included work with offenders, women in prison, young unemployed people, environmental projects and in housing and regeneration at a national and local level. |
Louise Arnold Louise Lay is Group Director for ENCAMS – Environmental Campaigns (better known as Keep Britain Tidy). Her role focuses on liaising with many partners across a range of organisations to articulate and facilitate solutions to challenges that relate to local environmental quality and anti-social behaviour, particularly community safety. Prior to this Louise was National Assistant Director in the Anti-social Behaviour Unit in the Home Office, where she worked extensively with senior government officials and ministers in areas of development in tackling Anti-Social Behaviour. She also traveled extensively across the country to advise, support and lead organisations in their response to tackling anti-social behaviour. Issues ranged from nuisance neighbours on housing estate to graffiti and street drinking in town and city centre centre’s. |
Joe Tavernier Joe Tavernier is Director of Street Environment at Ealing Council (in London) and Chair of the Capital Standards programme. He is a civil engineer by profession, originally working for private sector consulting engineers and international construction companies. Joe sees his primary responsibility as creating the correct environment, and modelling the behaviours, for effective public service delivery. His current responsibilities include all aspects of waste management, highways management, parking services, envirocrime prevention and developing the interfaces between 'environmental services' and the strategic 'safer communities' agenda. He has developed and retained a keen interest in environmental and waste management, particularly the causes of 'littering' behaviour, and what can be done to deliver sustainable improvements on the ground. |