Cindy Butts

Independent Member

Cindy Butts became a member of the MPA in 2000 and was returned for a second term of office in July 2004, since when she has been continually elected as one of the Authority's two deputy chairs.

Holding a BA in Social Anthropology and Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Cindy was formerly a researcher for the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and then a House of Commons Researcher.

Cindy is a member of the Home Secretary's gun crime round table, a long-standing member of the Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group, and chairs the London-wide Crown Prosecution Service Hate Crime Panel.

She chaired the MPA's significant gun crime scrutiny, published in February 2004, co-chaired the Authority's scrutiny into MPS participation in Crime and Disorder Partnerships, and also led an independent evaluation of MPS Community Race Relations training. She was a panel member for the Authority's ground breaking year-long enquiry into the causes and effects of terrorism amongst our diverse communities, 'Counter-Terrorism: The London debate', which published 73 recommendations in February 2007.

Cindy leads for the Authority on the Citizen Focus agenda within the MPS and co-chairs (with Baroness Helena Kennedy) the MPA Domestic Violence Board set up to monitor, scrutinise and support the MPS in its performance and response to domestic violence. She is currently leading a working group to oversee MPS participation in the national trial extending the use of Taser to non-firearms trained police officers.

Specific interests

• Gun and knife crime
• Youth and diversity issues
• Women's issues
• Domestic violence
• Taser deployment
• Citizen Focused policing

MPA Link Member for:

• London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

Authority committee membership:

• Communities, Equalities and People Committee
• Community Engagement and Citizen Focus Sub-committee
• Equality and Diversity Sub-committee
• Finance and Resources Committee
• Strategic and Operational Policing Committee

Contact details

Members Support
Metropolitan Police Authority
10 Dean Farrar Street
London
SW1H 0NY

Tel: 020 7202 0184/6
Fax: 020 7202 0200
Minicom: 020 7202 0173
Email: membersservices@mpa.gov.uk

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