David Michael
David served for thirty years with the Metropolitan Police Service was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector. He was a senior investigating officer in areas of homicide, rape and other serious sexual offences, child protection, international and organized crime and worked in the investigation of complaints against police. He is a founder and past Chair of the first
Black Police Association in the UK. He was also a Police Federation representative for Detective Chief Inspectors and Detective Inspectors and a delegate of the Inspectors Branch Board at national Police Federation conferences.
David is now active with, community, voluntary and charitable work and balances those against running his small business consultancy,
Cause Consultancy Ltd. He offers his transferred skills, knowledge, experience and expertise from three decades in policing, criminal justice and community involvement. David is a law graduate. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Laws degree by the University of Greenwich and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Westminster. He is a former member of the University of Greenwich Assembly and was an appointed external member of its Equal Opportunities Committee. He is a Scholarship Patron of the University of Westminster and a Coach / Mentor at Imperial College.
He is an appointed adviser to the Mayor of Lewisham and Lewisham Council on Community Cohesion and Community Relations. He is
Chair of Lewisham Community Police Consultative Group. He is a former member of the Independent Advisory Group to the Racial and Violent Crime Task Force at New Scotland Yard. He is a former Board member of Sabre Employment, an organisation with expertise in the successful recruitment, retention, and development of disabled people in employment, a former board member of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education and a former Board member of Race Equality Action Lewisham.
David is an accomplished
speaker, presenter and pundit. He has spoken at international conferences in Canada, the USA and South Africa. He presented a paper to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva on 'Developing human resources in the Public Emergency Services' and the importance of Diversity and Equalities in that context. He presented the inaugural lecture at South Bank University for the Division of Social & Political Studies. He was an external speaker at the Oxford 6th Form Conference at New College, Oxford University. More recently he was a keynote speaker at the Cambridge University Students Union Debating Society and keynote speaker at Warwick University.
David has received numerous community, academic and civic awards and
recognition for his work in community and race relations, diversity and equalities, the promotion of racial harmony and good citizenship. David was a long standing member of the National Race Issues Advisory Committee which meets at NACRO. He is a member of the Discrimination Law Association and a member of Liberty. He was a contributor to the book, 'Policing, race and racism' by Professor Michael Rowe of Leicester University.
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David Michael
Oct-08
David Michael interview with the South London Press BPA founder says: 'Don't boycott Met'
BRITAIN'S first black cop last night blasted the call for ethnic recruits to boycott the Met.
