Staffing

My office supports me in achieving the priorities set out in my Police and Crime plan, delivers a service to the public and helps me meet my legal obligations. PCC structures can be found at the links below:

OPCC Executive Structure - June 2021.pdf

OPCC DCEO portfolio Structure - FEB 2021.pdf

The Deputy Chief Executive, with the Deputy Chief Constable, manage the service level agreements for all shared services hosted either by my office or the Force.  These shared services include Commissioning, Communications and Engagement, Estates and Facilities, Finance, Information Governance, Legal Services, Organisational Development, People Development, People Services, and Performance.  

I have a small Personal Office that comprises of posts I must legally have in place, as well as posts that help me deliver my role as Police and Crime Commissioner. 

Senior Employees

Chief Executive – Naji Darwish

Responsibilities: Naji fulfils the role of Chief Executive (CEO), Monitoring Officer and Head of Paid Service, which is required by law. Naji leads the OPCC Executive Leadership Team and is ultimately responsible for all OPCC functions. Naji supports and advices the Police and Crime Commissioner to ensure all legal duties are met, including their responsibility for the totality of all policing in their area, securing an effective and efficient policing service, producing and delivering a Police and Crime Plan. The CEO also has a range of statutory duties and responsibilities, including

1. Strategy and resource planning
2. Commissioning and service delivery
3. Delivering system and organisational change and improvement
4. Scrutiny, governance and performance; and
5. Ensuring an efficient and effective Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.

Naji is a criminologist and has worked at executive positions in the NHS, Public Health, local government, policing and in private industry, specialising in strategy and strategic change.

Salary: £100,320, Full-time position

Chief Finance Officer - Clive Barker

Responsibilities: As Chief Finance Officer for the Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive is responsible for providing the PCC with day-to-day financial advice and long term financial planning to deliver the Police and Crime plan.  He is the officer responsible under statute for the proper administration of the PCC's financial affairs and ensures the OPCC meets its obligations under its own financial regulations. He is also responsible for ICT, estates, facilities and fleet functions.

Salary: £53,900 (0.5 full time equivalent)

Director of Operations – Rob Llewellyn

Responsibilities: Rob fulfils the role of Director of Operations.  Rob leads and manages the OPCC functions directly across office operations including administration, strategy and policy, service delivery (commissioning), performance, risk management and governance.

In addition, Rob acts as the Deputy to the Chief Executive and supports the CEO for the overall running of all OPCC functions.

Rob is proficient in stakeholder management at strategic/executive level with a proven ability to build collaborative relationships across a wide range of groups, from politicians to partner organisations. Rob is a qualified project and programme manager skilled in leading business change, strategy development, commissioning services and operational delivery.

Salary: £77,517, Full-time position

Office Diversity

There is certain information relating to the diversity of the staff I employ I am required to publish under the Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) Order 2011.  This information can be found below:  

Number of members of staff	21
Proportion of staff who are female	52.4%
Proportion of staff who are from an ethnic minority	9.5%
Proportion of staff who have a disability	19%