NPIA Chair announced

Hertfordshire Police Authority member, Peter Holland CBE, has been appointed as the first chair of the new National Policing Improvement Agency.

Sep 21, 2006
By Damian Small
Paul Chowles

Hertfordshire Police Authority member, Peter Holland CBE, has been appointed as the first chair of the new National Policing Improvement Agency.

Mr Holland said: “I am extremely pleased and privileged to have the opportunity to take on this new and exciting role. I am convinced that the NPIA will support and equip the police service to protect and secure our communities even better.”

Mr Holland is on the Boards of both Centrex and the Police Information and Technology Organisation (PITO). In 1995 he was appointed independent member of Hertfordshire Police Authority, and in 1997 was elected Chair until standing down in 2003. In 2001 he was appointed an independent council member of the Telecommunications Ombudsman Service (Otelo) and subsequently elected Chair. In 2002 he was appointed Chair of Herts in Trust, a charity working to support safer communities and lower crime rates in Hertfordshire.

He was appointed a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 2000 and awarded the CBE for services to policing in the New Years Honours 2005. His leisure activities include sailing, tennis and scuba diving. He is married with one daughter.

APA Chairman, Bob Jones, said: “Mr Holland brings with him valuable expertise from the private sector which will add greatly to his position as Chairman of the NPIA. This appointment sends a key message about the tri-partite nature of the NPIA as a new organisation that will have an important 360 degree vision of policing.”

Hertfordshire Chief Constable Frank Whiteley said, “Mr Holland has been a challenging and constructive supporter of Hertfordshire Constabulary and has overseen the continuing development and improvement of policing in Hertfordshire.”

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