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Debate:
Motion: This house believes that we need more coercive testing and treatment
services
Peter
Wheelhouse, Paul Hayes, Paul Wells and Dr Judith Rumgay
Biographies
Proposing:
Peter Wheelhouse
Peter Wheelhouse
is Head of the Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP) in the Drugs Strategy
Directorate of the Home Office. DIP is a critical part of the Government's
strategy for tackling drugs in general and reducing drug-related crime
in particular. It is a 3-year £447m programme to develop and integrate
measures for directing drug-misusing offenders out of crime and into
treatment. The intention is for these processes to become the normal
way of working with drug-misusing offenders across England and Wales.
Peter is not a drugs
specialist but has long experience in law enforcement and criminal justice
roles. He spent his early career as an operational officer dealing with
immigration issues at home and overseas before moving to policy and
performance management work. Peter has worked widely on with the police
service and other criminal justice partners, including the creation
of the Metropolitan Police Authority. Prior to his current post, he
was Head of Police Information and Communications Technology in the
Home Office, was a Board member of the Police Information Technology
Organisation, and worked closely with the Criminal Justice IT Programme.
Peter Wheelhouse
Head, Drug Interventions Programme Drugs Unit (DIPDU), Drugs Strategy
Directorate, Home Office
peter.wheelhouse2@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
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Seconding:
Paul Hayes
Paul has been Chief
Executive of the NTA since its creation in 2001. As Chief Executive
Paul advises Minister's and senior officials in the Department of Health
and Home Office about all issues to do with the provision of drug treatment
in England. He is the lead advisor to the NTA Board, which is responsible
for shaping the NTA's strategic direction, and leads the Senior Management
Team in implementing the agency's work programme. Prior to joining the
NTA Paul worked for the Probation Services for over 20 years.
Paul Hayes
Chief Executive, National Treatment Agency
paul.hayes@nta-nhs.org.uk
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Opposing:
Paul Wells
Paul Wells trained
as a probation officer but has worked in the drug field for over twenty
years and is the Health Inclusion Manager for Coventry Teaching Primary
Care Trust. His duties include managing a range of specialist healthcare
projects including the Coventry Community Drug Team since 1985. He has
been interested in developing policy and practical responses to reduce
the incidence of HCV infection among drug users for the past eight years.
He is a director of UKHRA and has presented papers, published articles
and provided training on HCV in both the UK and Europe.
Paul Wells
Health Inclusion Manager, Coventry CDT
prestonwells@ntlworld.com
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Seconding:
Dr Judith Rumgay
Dr Judith
Rumgay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy,
London School of Economics. She was a probation officer prior
to her appointment at LSE, where she was initially responsible
for the Home Office sponsored probation stream on the postgraduate
social work programme. Her teaching currently focuses on psychology
and crime, rehabilitation of offenders and criminal justice policy.
Her research interests include alcohol- and drug-related offending,
the probation service, female offenders and voluntary sector involvement
in offender rehabilitation. She is the author of Crime, Punishment
and the Drinking Offender (Macmillan, 1998), and The Addicted
Offender: Developments in British Policy and Practice (Palgrave,
2000).
Dr Judith
Rumgay
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics
j.rumgay@lse.ac.uk
Full
text of presentation
> Link
to additional article: FAITH
IN FORCE: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON COERCED DRUG TREATMENT
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