Board Members
Name: Martin Baker
Position: Chief Constable
Details: Martin Baker became Chief Constable of Dorset Police in January 2005. He served previously with Gloucestershire Police as Deputy Chief Constable and also with Gwent, West Mercia and Metropolitan Police forces. Throughout his police career, Martin has worked in a number of fields, including the anti- terrorist branch in the Metropolitan Police and more recently as the Association of Chief Police Officers national lead on cross-border serious and organised crime. In 2006 Martin Baker was awarded Her Majesty The Queen's Police Medal for distinguished police service. He has an Honours degree in Policing and Police Studies and an MBA (Public Service).
Name: Kate Brown
Position: Chief Crown Prosecutor
Details: Kate Brown became Chief Crown Prosecutor for Dorset in November 2006. Kate joined the CPS as a newly qualified solicitor in 1994 starting her career in West Mercia and then Wiltshire. Before moving to Dorset Kate was the Head of Hampshire’s South East District. Whilst in Hampshire Kate led on a national initiative to increase in-house advocacy which in October 2006 saw CPS lawyers prosecuting 64% of cases in the Crown Court compared to virtually none three years before.
Name: Rod Brummitt
Position: Area Director, Her Majesty's Court Service
Details: Rod Brummitt has been Dorset Area Director of Her Majesty’s Courts Service since the Courts Service restructured in April 2005, bringing together the Magistrates’, Crown and County Courts into a single organisation. In April 2007 Rod will become Area Director for Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset as Her Majesty’s Courts Service restructures its Area Directorates. Rod was Chief Executive for Dorset Magistrates’ Courts before the restructuring of the Courts Service in 2005. Before he took up his position at the courts, Rod was an Army Officer, leaving in the rank of Brigadier. A fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Rod was awarded the MBE in 1986 and was mentioned in a dispatch for distinguished operational service in 1991.
Name: John Wiseman (Chair of the Dorset Criminal Justice Board)
Position: Chief Officer, Dorset Probation Service
Details: John Wiseman became Chief Officer of Dorset Probation in August 2007, having been an Assistant Chief Officer in Avon and Somerset for the previous seven years. John first qualified as a Probation Officer in 1981 and has since worked in a variety of roles including work in a Probation hostel in Devon, a Probation Officer in Gloucestershire and a Senior Probation Officer in HM Prison Gloucester. John spent five years working as a practitioner and a manager in the Auckland area of New Zealand. John was awarded the Master of Studies in Criminology, Penology and Management by the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.
Name: Serena Watts
Position: Governor, HM Prison Dorchester
Details: Serena joined Middlesex Probation Service in 1994, working at Feltham Probation Office. In 1990 she was promoted to Senior Probation Officer and took over a hostel in Finchley for high tariff offenders before becoming Head of Probation at HM Young Offenders Institution Feltham. In October 1999 Serena joined the Prison Service on the fast track system and was posted to HM Prison Wandsworth in her first officer placement. In March 2000 she joined HM Prison Erlestoke as Head of Prisoner Development and Programmes and in 2002 was promoted to Head of Residence. In December 2003 Serena was appointed Deputy Governor of HM Prison Shepton Mallet and a year later became Deputy Governor at HM Prison Bristol. Serena was appointed Governor of HM Prison Dartmoor in June 2005 and became Governor of HM Prison Dorchester in January 2009.
Name: Clive Hawkins
Position: Manager, Dorset Youth Offending Team
Details: Clive Hawkins left Dorset at 18 to take a Law Degree in Bristol and then continued to migrate north working in the 1980's as a Probation Officer in Derbyshire and Greater Manchester. In the 1990's he worked as a manager in a number of settings in Greater Manchester Probation Service. At the end of 1999 he returned to Dorset when he was appointed to set up the Dorset Youth Offending Team. The YOT "went live" in April 2000 and Clive has remained the Manager, overseeing the steady development of the team.
Name: Pauline Batstone
Position: Manager, Bournemouth and Poole Youth Offending Team
Details: Pauline has been Service Manager of the Bournemouth and Poole Youth Offending Team since its inception in 1999. Before Setting up the YOT, Pauline was a Senior Probation Officer in Dorset, managing two Probation Hostels. Prior to that Pauline was seconded to manage a charity for three years, and previously ran a Probation Centre and a fieldwork team. She was also a District and County Councillor for sixteen years. Pauline is currently Chair of the National Association of Youth Offending Team Managers having been one of the founder members of the Association in 2001.