Lydia is a positive and enthusiastic outgoing person who prides herself in treating everyone fairly and compassionately. She is a natural problem solver and has vast experience in working within high pressured environments and is never daunted by the challenge ahead. This has been evident through her career within policing where she rose through the ranks and recently retired after 30 years of exemplary service as a Superintendent.

This role saw her having management responsibility for over 500 staff with a variety of policing specialisms such as firearms, roads policing, public order officers to name but a few. Lydia’s leadership style of continuous improvement, promoting positive cultures within the workplace meant that she was able to deliver change programmes ensuring the numerous departments within her portfolio worked efficiently and effectively delivering the strategic objectives and standards set by her.

One of Lydia’s main passions was her role as a Police Commander where she was responsible for coordinating serious and complex investigations at a local and regional level into offences of organised crime including drug and firearms manufacture and supply. Her sense of justice and determination has resulted in a number of organised crime groups being dismantled and the perpetrators receiving significant custodial sentences leading to the recovery of illegally held proceeds of crime.

On top of this Lydia was responsible for managing complex workplace investigations that included allegations of bullying, victimisation, and discrimination. She has also chaired disciplinary, grievance and appeal hearings as well as having had extensive involvement within employment tribunals and court proceedings.

Having a true interest in the progress and development of others, understanding and valuing the people with whom she has had the pleasure to work with, Lydia is a qualified trainer and mentor and has helped and supported countless others to achieve their ambitions and goals within the workplace.