Members

The Civil Nuclear Police Authority members are:

 

Sir Philip Trousdell KBE CB (Chairman)
Sir Philip Trousdell served in the Army until 2005. Since then he has held a number of appointments in the private sector as Advisor to Chairmen and owners of commercial organisations. He is Chairman of a company that develops leadership processes at Board level. Much of his time is taken up with charity work in the military sector, especially for Help For Heroes - he is a trustee of Tedworth House Recovery Centre and has pedalled over 4,000 miles raising money - and the Gurkha Welfare Trust where he raises funds and project manages the construction of sheltered housing for geriatric, destitute ex-Gurkhas and their widows.

 

 Dame Elizabeth Neville (Independent)
Dame Elizabeth Neville retired as Chief Constable of Wiltshire Constabulary in September 2004. She was appointed to the Police Authority for a period of three years in April 2005, which was extended in April 2008 for a further four years until 31 March 2012, as an Independent Member and Police Advisor. She is a member of the Senior Appointments, Leadership & Development Committee.
Elizabeth is an Independent Adjudicator of Companies House and was appointed as the High Sheriff of Wiltshire on 31st March 2010.

 

Mr Robert Wright (Independent)
Robert (Rob) Wright has been appointed as an Independent member for three years from 4 January 2010. He is Chairman of the Audit, Risk & Corporate Governance Committee. He is a management consultant, specialising in providing tailored support to public sector bodies on policy and project management. Before taking early retirement from the then DTI in March 2007, he was Director of Export Control and Non-proliferation for three years, with responsibility inter alia for overseeing the government's policy on nuclear safeguards, and prior to that Director of Energy Strategy. He is an accredited Office of Government Commerce high risk Gateway Review team leader and an Associate of the National School of Government. He is also a member of the Cabinet Office's Security Vetting Appeals Panel.

 

Mr Stephen Barrett (Independent)
Stephen Barrett has been appointed as an independent member and Chair of the Finance, Planning and Performance Committee from 1st April 2010. After qualifying as a solicitor, Stephen practised law in the corporate and securities field, with Dechert and Norton Rose, before moving to Lloyds Merchant Bank where he became a senior executive director. He then joined KPMG as a partner - and was latterly International Chairman, Corporate Finance. Stephen is a Non Executive Director of the Royal Air Force, and of the National Fraud Authority. He is also a former Non Executive Director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Member of the Royal United Services Institute, Member of the Law Society, Fellow of the Compliance Institute and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment.

 

Mr Matt Sykes
Matt Sykes is a Regional Chief Nuclear Officer within EDF Energy Nuclear Generation. He has worked within the Electricity Supply Industry for 27 years and held a number of operational positions. Matt was appointed to the Police Authority as a member in April 2007 and his current term has been further extended until 31 March 2012. Matt is a member of the Audit, Risk & Governance Committee.


Mr George Beveridge
George Beveridge is the Deputy Managing Director of Sellafield Ltd, he was appointed to the Police Authorty in August 2009 for 3 years. He has spent 23 years in a variety of roles in the UK nuclear industry, including two previous spells at Sellafield. His experience includes plant and project management, R&D, and business management as well as general management of several businesses. George has been involved at Sellafield, Capenhurst, Reactor Sites, Aldermaston and Nirex during his career and has a broad knowledge of the whole UK nuclear sector. He has also played a part in the socio-economic development of the areas in which he has worked, which included being a founding Director of the Cumbria Inward Investment Agency. George has lived in West Cumbria for over 20 years and enjoys walking and mountain biking in his spare time.

 

Mr Alan Rae
Alan Rae joined the Police Authority in January 2011 as the member representing the NDA, the formal owner of the publicly owned civil nuclear sites. He has been the NDA's Director of Nuclear Safety since 2007, having joined the NDA soon after its formation in 2005. Prior to NDA Alan worked as a nuclear safety regulator for 15 years on a broad range of projects covering new build, operations, and decomissioning of nuclear facilities in the civil nuclear and defence nuclear sectors. Alan has also worked in the operational part of the nuclear sector for 10 years.  

 

Mr Simon Middlemas, OBE

Simon Middlemas is the Managing Director of Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, the Babcock International Group company that is decomissioning the old research and development site on the nroth coast of Scotland. Simon's career background is in the Royal Navy serving on three nuclear submarines with various other shore support jobs, including Head of Site at the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment near Dounreay, and the Project Contract Manager for two nuclear submarine updates and refuels in Devonport Dockyard. Simon will shortly be moving on to take up a new position as the Managing Director of Babcock's civil nuclear business, responsible for a large part of the NDA, Edf, MoD and International key account activities.

 

STAFF
Police Authority Executive and Secretariat

Detail on Police Authority staff can be found by clicking the link here


Having considered the membership and specific responsibilities of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority, it is useful to look at the way in which the Constabulary is funded.