LONDON - Thurs 8 May 2008
WITNESSES
1. Iain Duncan Smith MP
Founder of the Centre for Social Justice, former leader of the Conservative party, and MP for Chingford and Woodford Green.
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2. Chris Huhne MP
Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, and MP for Eastleigh.
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3. DCC Jon Murphy
Deputy Chief Constable Merseyside Police, currently working with the Home Office as Head of the National Tackling Gangs Action Programme.
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4. Keith Vaz MP
Chair of the House of Commons Home Affairs select committee, and MP for Leicester East.
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5. Mike Walsh
Consultant trauma surgeon and lead trauma clinician at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, the capital’s centre for trauma incidents including gun and serious knife wounds.
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6. & 7. Ray Lewis & Ian Joseph
Ray Lewis has recently been appointed London Deputy Mayor for Young People, with a remit to tackle youth crime. He is founder of the Eastside Young Leaders Academy, who provide supplementary education and personal development for young Afro-Caribbean boys in the London borough of Newham who are at risk of social exclusion. Ian Joseph is the academy's lead officer.
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8. & 9. CS Steve Dann & Jules Pipe
Chief Superintendent Steve Dann is Hackney Borough Police Commander. Jules Pipe is the elected mayor of Hackney.
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10. & 11. Claudia Webbe & Naomi Hutchison-Smith
Claudia Webbe is Vice-Chair of the Trident Advisory Group. Naomi Hutchison-Smith is a women's prison visitor who was brought up in close quarters to youth gun and gang culture in east London.
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12. Commander Mark Simmons
Head of Youth Violence, Metropolitan Police.
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13. & 14. Mike Gervis & Junior Smart
Mike Gervis is the former co-ordinator of tackling gangs and youth violence at Waltham Forest local authortity, and now chief executive of the Damilola Taylor Trust. Junior Smart spent five years in prison for drug offences, now a project worker with the Southwark Gangs Project at the St Giles Trust which mentors gang offenders before and after prison release to support them through rehabilitation.
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15. Simon Hallsworth
Professor of Social Research at London Metropolitan University.
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16. Lydia Sorensen
Lydia Sorensen is a senior project worker at Newham Intensive Family Support which is run by leading children's charity, NCH. The project offers intensive support to local families in which there has been a problem with anti-social behaviour.
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