Board Members
Donna was elected as Chair of the APCC in July 2023.
Donna was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in May 2021.
Donna was a Magistrate in Hampshire for sixteen years. When she was appointed by the Lord Chancellor in October 2005, she was the youngest member of the judiciary in England and Wales. From 2014-2018 Donna was the first woman to be elected the Leader of Portsmouth City council in Hampshire.
Donna is Hampshire born and bred.
Marc was elected as a Vice Chair of the APCC in July 2023. Previously he served as Chair from 2021-23.
He has been the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire since 2016.
He has previously served as a County Councillor in Lincolnshire, where he was the authority’s executive member for finance and property. He is a former Deputy Leader of Lincoln City Council.
Alun has served as Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales since November 2012. Previously he was the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Cardiff South and Penarth.
Alun was appointed as APCC Vice Chair in July 2022.
Katy has served as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex since 2012.
She is a graduate of Aberystwyth University and is married with two sons. She was a successful business woman before entering politics and retains a keen interest in innovative business start-ups including green technologies.
Katy was awarded an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for public and political services in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2019.
David has served as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire since 2012, and is the Lead of the APCC Portfolio Group on Criminal Justice.
Before being elected as a PCC, David was Chairman of the Hertfordshire Police Authority.
Kim was elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria in a by-election in July 2019, and serves as the APCC portfolio lead on Workforce.
She had previously sat on Newcastle City Council, joining the authority's cabinet in 2016 as Executive Member for Culture, Sport and Public Health.
Festus was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire in May 2021.
Before being elected as Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Festus completed 400hrs of service as a Special Constable with Bedfordshire Police, including frontline response duties as an officer.
James is the Chair of the City of London Police Authority Board and Chair of the Police Authority’s Economic and Cyber Crime Committee. The Police Authority Board is responsible for holding the Commissioner of the City of London Police to account.
In July 2021, in line with the APCC's Articles, the other seven Board members agreed to co-op James to the Board to represent the Other Policing Governance Bodies group.
James also sits on the Home Office Fraud Policing Oversight Board, which is where City of London Police is held to account externally for its role as National Lead Force for Fraud and Cyber Crime.