Richard (known as Dickon) Turner

• Promote best practice in safeguarding for Sport National Governing Body (NGB)
• Investigate allegations and concerns of abuse and poor practice
• Oversee DBS applications and risk assessments for alerts.
• Create and maintain working relationships with regional and local netball partners and other sport NGBs. Increased visibility of safeguarding across the sport.
• Improve access to and take up of safeguarding policy, process and practice including mandatory training and DBS checks. Writing new policy and guidance. Increased website visits and downloads.
• Developed, tested and delivered interactive scenario based training for volunteers.

• Working with board of directors and other agency representatives to set strategic objectives and lead operation delivery
• Built trusted relationships with board members to maintain constructive leadership.
• Hold agencies to account for reducing re-offending, imprisonment and unfair treatment of young offenders.

• Responsible for neighbourhood policing across the county of Somerset
• Oversaw performance and priorities of 300 officers and staff
• Chaired and contributed to several strategic partnership boards.
• Force lead for Rural Crime and Problem Solving policing

• Led the Force management of sexual and violent offender cohorts
• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of sex offender management regime
• Reduced outstanding visits for sex offenders. Introduced digital/internet team; increasing capacity and capability to manage risk.
• Led project with partner agencies to secure funding and introduce domestic abuse perpetrator programme in S Gloucestershire and Bristol.
• Chaired MAPPA level 2 and 3 meetings
• Chaired Serious Case Review panels to identify learning

• Improved multi-agency Prevent Management Boards
• Chaired the SW Multi-agency Extremism Support Meeting
• Senior Investigating Officer for the covert response to a high profile convicted terrorist.

• Detective Inspector, head of Bath CID (2012-15)
• Detective Sergeant in public protection leading investigations into numerous child deaths including suicides and 2 homicides and the infamous Winterbourne View hospital abuse case. South Gloucestershire (2007-12)
• Detective Constable in child protection, Bristol (2002-6)
• Uniform roles including local beat officer, patrol sergeant and patrol PC in Reading and Bristol

- Trustee of Young Somerset (a mental health and youth work charity)

- Occasional volunteer Duke of Edinburgh award instructor

- Work coach/mentor (College of Policing Course 2022)