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Alison Heydari

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United Kingdom

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Alison Claire Heydari is a British chief police officer and criminal-justice leader serving as Commander for the Criminal Justice portfolio within Met Operations in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Over a policing career beginning in 2000, she has held operational and strategic responsibilities encompassing criminal investigation, public protection, child-abuse investigation, emergency response, crisis negotiation, geographic command, major-event public-order command, pan-London neighbourhood policing, national criminal-justice policy and cross-force institutional reform. Her career has progressed from direct responsibility for victims, offenders, investigations and frontline decision-making to the leadership of complex operational systems, national standards, performance frameworks and organisational change.

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