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Home Office Contacts and Support

A dedicated team will be working on National Tackling Drugs Week at the Home Office.

 The National Tackling Drugs Week team is available to provide Government Offices, CDRPs, DAT teams, Police and other colleagues with any support that you need.  In particular, we will:

• maintain oversight of the range of activities going on throughout the country during the week
• maintain this web page for practitioners about National Tackling Drugs Week
• provide National Tackling Drugs Week merchandise (T shirts, post-it notes, pens and literature)
• coordinate a series of ministerial visits to highlight local action
• organise all national elements of National Tackling Drugs Week

In addition, press support will be available to local partners from press and PR specialists from the Central Office of Information (COI) PR and news team and also from the ACPO Press Office.  For contacts please see details below.

Home Office Contacts

Overall co-ordination

For general enquiries, information about local activities taking place during National Tackling Drugs Week and the national componenets of the week.

Louise Graham - louise.graham@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Dan Walpole    - daniel.walpole2@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Police co-ordination - ACPO

Ch Supt Lander of Devon and Cornweall police is operational ACPO lead for National Tackling Drugs Week and will be co-ordinating police activity during the week.

Chief Superintendend Stuart Lander - stuart.lander@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

Ministerial Visits

To put your area or event forward for a ministerial visit during the week please contact:

Rosemary Morle - Rosemary.Morle@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Activity returns

Please send your activity response forms with information about what you have planned to:

Eddie Hallett - Eddie.Hallett@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Press Support

Press support will be available to local partners from press and PR specialists from the Central Office of Information (COI) News, and PR teams and also from the ACPO Press Office.

CDRPs and DATs are invited to contact their regional COI PR and news team representatives on the numners below who will be able to offer the following range of support: 

• Advice and help writing press notices
• Setting up meetings with local press
• Day to day liaison by phone
• Press notice distribution
• Follow up activity

Please note the COI team will not be able to attend events during the week.

 COI Contacts

 All COI e-mail addresses are firstname.surname@coi.gsi.gov.uk

 

Yorkshire and the Humber

Helen Sharland             Tel: 0113 341 3179

Martin Green                Tel: 0113 341 3176

 

North East

Peter Morris                 Tel: 0191 202 3694

Jackie Woods              Tel: 0191 202 3604           

 

North West

Michael Short               Tel: 0161 952 4515

NIgel Ellis                     Tel: 0161 952 4507

 

East

Adele Williams              Tel: 01223 372785

John Stevenson           Tel: 01223 372790

 

South East

Mark Fenwick                Tel: 0207 261 8395

Katharine MacDowall    Tel:0207 261 8392

 

London

Nicholas Mann              Tel: 0207 261 8395

Simon Holder                Tel:0207 261 8529

 

South West

Matthew Gibbs             Tel: 0117 900 3563

Becky Graham              Tel: 0117 900 3565

 

Wales

Robert Gage                Tel: 0844 800 6823

Samantha Verrechia    Tel: 0117 900 3557

 

West Midlands

Amanda Wood             Tel: 0121 352 5512

Jessica Brown              Tel: 0121 352 5514

Joanna Kail                  Tel: 0121 325 5513

East Midlands

Gabrielle Hateley          Tel: 0115 971 2797

Elizabeth Leonard         Tel: 0115 971 2782

In addition, ACPO press office is willing to work with forces regarding any press advice that they might require.

 

ACPO Press Office

Lisa Vasco                     Tel: 020 7084 8947             Lisa.vasco@acpo.pnn.police.uk