The Talking Heads
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Ian Lott |
Bear Montique |
Sarbjit Ganger |
IAN LOTT
METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE
Detective Inspector Ian Lott has been a Police Officer for 20 years and for the last 2 has been in charge of the Community Safety Unit based at Kilburn Police Station on the borough of Brent. DI Lott contributed to the original Talking Heads at the SDVC Anniversary event this year at Brent Magistrates Court and was pleased to contribute to the making of Brent Talking Heads.
BEAR MONTIQUE
ADVANCE ADVOCACY PROJECT
Bear Montique is the manager of ADVANCE, a domestic violence advocacy project in Hammersmith & Fulham and Brent. Bear has been working in domestic violence for 19 years and has run ADVANCE for the last 10 years. ADVANCE recently celebrated their 10th anniversary where Bear was able to put forward a unique happy birthday message with the assistance of the Brent Talking Heads team. Bear loves to travel and last year went overland from Cairo to Cape Town in a truck.
SARBJIT GANGER
ASIAN WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTRE
Sarbjit Ganger has over fifteen years of experience of working on issues around violence against women. Sarbjit is Director of the Asian Women’s Resource Centre, a specialist women’s organisation providing support to BMER (Black, Minority, Ethnic, Refugee) women and children. The centre was set up in 1980 and provides a free, confidential and professional service to women and children through the provision of advice and information, counselling, advocacy, outreach and support services. Sarbjit is currently Chair of the Brent Domestic Violence Forum which brings together practitioners from statutory, voluntary and private agencies to improve multi agency responses to domestic violence. Sarbjit is also a management committee member for Brava (Brent Association for Voluntary Action).
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Arlene Ferguson |
Nisha Gautama |
Shan Kilby |
Cath Kane |
ARLENE FERGUSON
WITNESS CARE UNIT
Arlene set up the Witness Care Unit and is currently the Witness Care Unit Manager for Brent. Arlene has worked in the Criminal Justice Unit since joining the MPS in August 2002. Arlene was previously at the Camden Law Centre before completing Community Safety Unit Police Officer training at the Crime Academy.
NISHA GAUTAMA
HM COURT SERVICE
Nisha is currently a Legal Team Manager at West London Courthouse, home of the first SDVC court in London. Whilst Nisha was a Senior Legal Adviser at Brent Magistrates Court she contributed to the implementation and development of the SDVC at Brent in collaboration with partner agencies. Nisha chaired the Primary Tier Group where most of the work was done to set up the court, including the formulation of an Inter-agency protocol. Nisha feels privileged to have worked with a wonderful group of people who had both focus and commitment to the setting up of the court and to the needs of complainants coming through the criminal justice process. Nisha also contributed to multi-agency, judicial and legal adviser training as part of our commitment to ensure a specialist and dedicated cadre of professionals and was involved in safety audits and the first court review. The Heads team is grateful to Nisha’s support and assistance during pre-production to ensure a successful two days of film.
SHAN KILBY
SDVC CO-ORDINATOR
Shan Kilby has worked in the domestic violence field for over 6 years and is the SDVC Coordinator based at ADVANCE. Shan previously worked at Brent Community Safety Team where this original idea came about with Cath Kane and Rochelle Dancel. This is the first film project Shan has worked on and really enjoyed the experience, and although she is mindful not to quit the ‘day job’, we don't think she'd do a bad job if she went into production full time. What Shan doesn't know about Macs isn't worth knowing - a skill that has proved unexpectedly useful for Heads.
CATH KANE
BRENT COMMUNITY SAFETY TEAM
Cath is the Domestic Violence Co-ordinator for the London Borough of Brent. An export from the advertising and marketing worlds, Cath has been working in the violence against women sector for over ten years, three of which have been spent at Brent. Cath’s innovative approach to her work has previously involved her commissioning the documentary of survivors’ stories, Short Stories, Long Lives. Cath currently sits on the project committee for the Take Back The Tech Campaign, a campaign that promotes the use of ICTs in the fight against violence against women.