Commander christine jones biography

Christine Jones (police officer)

British police officer

Christine Jones

QPM

Incumbent

Assumed office
2012
Preceded bySimon Cole
Born1964 (age 60–61) or 1965 (age 59–60)
ProfessionPolice officer

CommanderChristine JonesQPM (born 1964/1965) is a senior British police officer serving with London's Metropolitan Police Service ("the Met"). As of 2014, she is the Met's senior officer responsible for mental health and for domestic violence; she also the leads the Association of Chief Police Officers' (ACPO) National Mental Health Working Group.[1][2]

Career

In 2008, Jones was in charge of an operation in which Mark Saunders was shot dead by police firearms officers after repeatedly firing a shotgun out of a window; after the inquest into Saunders' death, Jones said "the object of the police was to protect the public and [to] bring Mark Saunders to safety. But we are prepared to take appropriate action to make difficult decisions to protect the public".[3] In April 2011, Jon

 
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  • The Association for Women in Science was established in 1971 to achieve equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Today, there are over 5,000 members, 50 percent of whom have doctoral degrees.
   
  • In 1972, 17 percent of the aerospace workforce was women.
  • In 1973, Emily Howell became the first female pilot to fly for a commercial U.S. airline, Frontier Airlines.
  • In 1974, the U.S. Navy selected its first non-combatant female pilots and, in the same year, the U.S. Army trained its first female pilot, Lt. Sally Murphy.
 
  • In 1974, Barbara Crawford Johnson was awarded the Society of Women Engineers' annual award for her work assuring the Apollo spacecraft made pinpoint landings.
 
  • In 1974, Mary Helen Johnston, Ann Whita

    Christine E Wormuth

    For almost 20 years, Christine Wormuth has been at the heart of US policymaking in defence and security. Her most recent post in the US government was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy between 2014 and 2016. 

    Ms. Wormuth served as the Principal Staff Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters on the formulation of national security and defense policy and the integration and oversight of Department of Defense policy and plans to achieve national security objectives.

    Ms. Wormuth was appointed as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Force Development in August, 2012. In this role, Ms. Wormuth was responsible for advising the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on the development of US national security and defense strategy. She oversaw the strategic guidance development, review, and assessment for military contingency plans and the plans for the day-to-day military activities of Combatant Commanders. In addition, Ms. Wormuth led Policy’s efforts to provid

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