Board Details
CHAIR OF THE THAMES VALLEY CRIMINAL JUSTICE BOARD
Jonathan Lane
Jonathan Lane is Chair of Thames Valley Criminal Justice Board. He studied mathematics at the University of Reading and went on to take a doctorate in Chemistry.
He later joined the Home Office Forensic Science Service in October 1980 at its Aldermarston laboratory as an operational scientist and expert witness. He specialised in scene evidence and fire scene examination and he regularly gave evidence in Thames Valley Courts. He subsequently transferred to the Huntingdon Laboratory.
In 1990 he joined the Home Office as a policy advisor, initially as part of a two year secondment which then became a permanent posting. Then followed a series of policy positions, including acting as lead for race legislation and strategic policy, sentencing and remand policy for juveniles, police performance and resources policy, as well as refugee reception and resettlement.
Jonathan Lane then joined the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Department for Constitutional Affairs) in 2002 as head of the Magistrates' Courts Administration Division where he was responsible for operational policy in the magistrates' courts of England and Wales.
In July 2004 he started as the Area Director for the, then forthcoming, HMCS Hertfordshire and was initially appointed Deputy Justices' Chief Executive for the Hertfordshire MCS prior to amalgamation. He then transferred to HMCS Thames Valley on 30th October 2006.
He has lived in Wendover in Buckinghamshire since 1992 and is married with two sons who are currently both at university.
Gerry Marshall
Gerry Marshall is Deputy Chair of the Thames Valley Criminal Justice BChief Officer of Thames Valley Probation. He studied Theology at Durham University where he specialised in Greek and hebrew texts and early church history. He went on to work for 2 years as a residential officer for the Rainer Foundation followed by a year at the Royal Philanthropic Society at their adolescent regional assessment centre.
After achieving his Certificate of qualification in Social Work from Bedford College where behavioural programmes, psychodynamic groupwork and residential care for the elderly were particular interests, he joined south west London Probation Service where he specialised in mental health, intermediate treatment and Borstal licences. He then moved to Inner London before being appointed as Senior Probation Officer in Lambeth. He moved on to develop a specialist regime for offenders under 25 before being appointed Assistant Chief in Tower Hamlets where he focussed much of his time on the influence of DNA and the trial of the Mile End Six. He also worked with John Grieve on a response to Race Hate Crimes and contributed to Phase II of the Stephen Laurence Enquiry. At the same time he was also responsible for What Works developments across London and helped establish the Women's Centre in London as well as the development of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation programme, Black Self Development programmes and Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes.
Gerry became Director of Probation for Oxfordshire in 1998 and was appointed the first Chief Probation Officer in Thames Valley following the amalgamation of local services in 2001.
Gerry's particular interests still include mentally disordered offenders, Court and sentencer liaison, approved, premises, groupwork, restorative justice, diversity and race equality and partnership working. His personal interests involve running, including several London Marathon's and one along the Great Wall of China. He is also very interested in scientific research about conservation and global warming and has contributed to the study of lions in Kenya and monkeys and dolphins in Peru. Gerry is a Trustee of the Thames valley partnership and Vice Chair of Circles UK.
He lives with his wife in east Oxford.
Sara Thornton QPM
Sara Thornton was appointed Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police in April 2007 which is the largest non-Metropolitan force in England and Wales.
She is a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers' (ACPO) Terrorism Committee where she represents the south east forces. From 2004 to 2007 she was the ACPO lead on intelligence and responsible for the implementation of the National Intelligence Model. She was a member of the ACPO Police Reform Steering Group and was responsible for the first two national Strategic Assessments in 2004.
Sara Thornton served with the Metropolitan Police from 1986 and over the next fifteen years her career alternated between operational postings in West London and strategic roles within New Scotland Yard. She joined Thames Valley Police as ACC Specialist Operations in November 2000 and in August 2003 was appointed Deputy Chief Constable where she led the largest organisational change programme in the thirty seven year history of Thames Valley Police. In January 2006 she was appointed Acting Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.
In 2006 she was awarded the Queens Police Medal. She is also a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, a member of the Advisory Board for the Oxford University Centre for Criminology and an active alumnus of the Windsor Leadership Trust.
She lives in Oxford and has two sons.
Baljit Ubhey
Baljit Ubhey is Thames Valley’s Chief Crown Prosecutor.She took over from former Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, who now heads the National Policing Improvement Agency.
Baljit is one of the youngest Chief Crown Prosecutors in England and Wales.
Having entered the CPS as a legal trainee in the early 1990’s, Baljit progressed through the ranks to become Chief Crown Prosecutor in one of the largest CPS areas outside London.
She has fulfilled several roles at the CPS, from Senior Crown Prosecutor in one of London’s busiest courts, to National Diversity Manager and a Senior Policy Advisor managing major projects for the CPS nationally.
In addition to her CPS role, she has been a member of Thames Valley Criminal Justice Board – which brings together the Police, CPS, Probation, Courts, Prisons and Youth Offending Teams.
Baljit studied law at the London School of Economics where she obtained her LLB degree before joining the CPS. Her time as a legal trainee with CPS Hertfordshire saw her first involvement in cases concerning child protection and family law.
In 1995, she set up and chaired 'Liveline', a charity providing counselling support services for children and young people in east London. She has also been a management committee member of Newham Asian Women’s Project, a charity assisting women suffering from domestic violence.
Baljit Ubhey has worked as a senior policy advisor in the Policy Directorate at the London CPS headquarters where her role involved identifying loopholes in legislation and advising on best possible policies in pursuit of a fair and robust criminal prosecution process.
She has been Chief Crown Prosecutor in Thames Valley for more than three years.
Bruce Davison
Following graduation from Nottingham University spent a short period as a residential social worker before returning to university to complete an MA which led to employment as a probation officer in South Yorkshire beginning in 1979.
Promoted to Assistant Chief Probation Officer with the Norfolk Probation Service in 1989. Later joined the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Probation Service (1997) as Director of Operations. Became Director of Performance and Operations for Thames Valley Probation Area on amalgamation of the former Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Probation Service with the Berkshire Probation Service and the creation of the National Probation Service.
Left TVP in 2003 to become Head of the Social Inclusion Strategy Unit for the Thames Valley, Hampshire and IOW Prison Area. Currently Head of Reducing Re-offending for the South Central Area of the Prison Service (Thames Valley, Hampshire and Surrey).
Academic Qualifications:
BA (Hons) English Lit. Nottingham University (1975)
Certificate of Residential Social Work. (CCETSW). Lancashire College (1976)
MA Applied Social Studies. Sheffield University (1979)
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CCETSW). Sheffield University (1979)
MBA. University of East Anglia (1997).
Married to Kim. Three children: Emma 24, Ben 22 and Sam 15. Lived in Oxfordshire since 1997
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Michelle Coppinger
Note to Editors:
Thames Valley Criminal Justice Board was set up in April 2003 to manage the criminal justice system at local level and is one of 42 Criminal Justice Boards in England and Wales. It includes Chief Officers from Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, Courts, the Probation Service, Prison Service and Youth Offending Teams.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact lcjb@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk .
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