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"Building Bridges with the Community" - South London Police Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 January 2000

St John's Church, Waterloo, Monday 7 February 2000.
PHOTOCALL AT THE CHURCH - 13.45

The Rt Rev Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark and Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Grieve, head of the Metropolitan Police Violent Crime Task Force, will host a conference for police officers in South London on "Building Bridges with the Community".

A key speaker will be Matthew Baggott, Assistant Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police, who was one of the senior officers in Peckham at the time of the Stephen Lawrence murder, and who headed the team which assisted the public inquiry and considered the implications for the police service.

The event is open to Christian police officers in South London plus invited members of the community.

The Archdeacon of Southwark, the Ven Douglas Bartles-Smith, will chair a panel of four other speakers - Sgt Jim Brown, who has been involved in community policing in Greenwich since the Lawrence review, R David Muir, Executive Director of the Black Civic Forum, Chief Inspector Paul Hill, Borough Liaison Officer for Southwark, and Debbie Welch, who is an officer of Southwark Diocese and a police adviser on community relations.

The Bishop of Southwark says: "This one-day seminar follows a successful conference last year in Willesden, North West London.  It will boost the contribution already being made by the Diocese and the MPS to enhance the life of the community."

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For further information contact: 

Diocesan Communications Officer
Tel: 020-7939 9400
Mobile: 07831-694021
Fax: 020-7939 9468