Profile

Maggie has worked in the criminal justice service for over 36 years, and has particular specialist expertise in public protection from the front line through to senior leadership.  In the early 1990s she worked across London and Oxford for the probation service, then set up the first youth offending service (YOT) in Oxfordshire in 1998 going on to work as a senior adviser to the newly formed Youth Justice Board between 2000 and 2005, with oversight of practice and performance of all 144 YOTs across the UK.  Between 2005 and 2016 Maggie’s had oversight of local child protection arrangements as an independent chair and she also held a Ministerial appointment as a Member of the Parole Board. In 2016 Maggie joined policing as a warranted officer, taking up role as a district commander with responsibility for Portsmouth City.  After completing the National Police Strategic Command Course in 2019 she transferred as Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing to Wiltshire, returning as ACC  to Hampshire. In 2021 Maggie was appointed to lead the national policing response to violence against women and girls, culminating in the establishment of the first National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection, handing over the VAWG portfolio in June 2025. She continues to chair the NPCC  Violence and Public Protection Board as part of the Crime Coordinating Committee. Maggie was DCC of the national College of Policing between 2023 and 2024, responsible as DCEO of all aspects of the internal College business as well as supporting police forces with leadership, standards and performance matters. In October 2024 Maggie became the Temporary Chief Constable for Gloucestershire Constabulary.