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Non-profit organisation with a mission to transform communities and reduce crime by recruiting, developing and inspiring diverse leaders in policing

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Congratulations to our Police Now Alumni Impact Awards 2024 winners! Eight officers from across the country, who have all graduated from a #PoliceNow programme, were recognised for their outstanding frontline policing and leadership. Read more below.⬇️
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Almost 230 new trainee detectives were attested today at #PoliceNow ’s National Detective Programme academy. They were addressed by senior guests including @CCPippaMills at the ceremony and will soon be deployed across 14 forces in England and Wales.
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Over 300 #PoliceNow officers have finished their academy training and today land in forces across England & Wales. Good luck to all, we can’t wait to hear about the positive impact you will have in your local communities alongside your force colleagues
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4 years
“I met a police officer in @WMPolice and he had a slight stammer as well. That really inspired me; if he can be a police officer then I can as well” PC Javid, participant on our National Graduate Leadership Programme, who appeared on @BBCCrimewatch today
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Over 220 new trainee detectives land in 14 forces across England and Wales today, having completed #PoliceNow ’s National Detective Programme academy. They now continue training in force and will be PIP2 certified by the end of the two-year programme.
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PS Aziz recently completed #PoliceNow ’s two-year National Graduate Leadership Programme with @WMPolice . She speaks about her proudest achievements in policing, overcoming imposter syndrome, and her passion for supporting vulnerable members of the community
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8 years
Want to find out more about #PoliceNow and the National Graduate Leadership Programme? See popular discussions here:
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4 years
Interesting fact: in the late 1960's, Sislin Fay Allen became the first Black female police officer in the United Kingdom paving the way for other Black female officers You can read more about Sislin Fay Allen’s story here #BlackHistoryMonth #BHMPoliceNow
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1 year
Over 60 new #PoliceNow officers land in the @metpoliceuk today, having just completed our National Graduate Leadership Programme academy. They will work as neighbourhood officers to support communities, reduce crime and build public confidence in policing.
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3 years
Today we welcomed over 300 officers to our #PoliceNow academies for their attestation. Our officers will train at the #NGLPacademy before being deployed into forces across the country. We are excited to support their journey as they begin their careers as neighbourhood officers.
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4 years
Here’s an interesting fact: Detective Sergeant Roberts was thought to be the first black police officer in the United Kingdom in 1966, until it was found that John Kent, the son of a Caribbean slave beat his record when he joined the police force in 1837 (1/2) #BlackHistoryMonth
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9 years
Thought you knew about graduate careers with the police? #PoliceNow could shake up your thinking! Find out more here
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6 years
Recently there has been some discussion about some of the questions asked in the early stages of our recruitment process. This is a thread by Police Now’s CEO Dave Spencer....1/8
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2 years
#PoliceNow alumna PS Kanar Talabani spoke with @stanchers on @bbcwm about her experience coming to the UK as a child refugee from Iraq, her career with @WMPolice so far, and her passion for supporting victims of crime. Hear her story from 1.46.08:
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10 years
If you're graduating next year & want a really rewarding challenge after uni, try our #PoliceNow programme. Keep updated here!
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7 years
Police Now participant PC Eady is in New York with NYPD exchanging ideas on neighbourhood policing and how to engage with communities
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NYPD 9th Precinct
7 years
Thanks to our counterparts from across the pond @metpoliceuk for the visit today and our talk about #NeighborhoodPolicing Hope you enjoyed your tour of the #EastVillage #NYC with our #NCO Officers @NYPDChiefPatrol #NYPD
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PC Volp, #PoliceNow alumna and winner of the 2020 Tilley Award, launched Operation Waterside within @cheshirepolice to investigate child exploitation in their force area, with impressive #localimpact results @CheshirePCC @DCCJulieCooke
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8 years
Today on our blog DCI David Spencer, co-founder of Police Now answers recent questions on PN's structure + funding:
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4 years
Edith Smith became Britain’s first warranted female PC in 1915. It wasn’t until 1968 that Sislin Fay Allen became Britain’s first black female PC. Police Now are recruiting inspiring women into policing with our 33 partner forces and #ChooseToChallenge gender imbalance #IWD21
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8 years
Our thoughts are with those involved in the incident today, and with the friends, family and colleagues of the brave officer who has died.
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2 years
Last week, over 400 officers graduated from our National Graduate Leadership Programme. Powerfully branding the cohort ‘one force for good’, PC Hill of @WMPolice spoke about her #PoliceNow journey and her most memorable moment as a police officer so far:
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7 years
A massive welcome to our new recruits arriving today for the #PNSummerAcademy 👮‍♀️👮 See you there tomorrow!
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2 years
Today we welcome the newest cohort of officers to Police Now’s #FrontlineLeadershipProgramme , a one-year development programme which prepares police constables for promotion to leadership roles in frontline policing. Good luck to all starting the programme today!
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3 years
To continue the launch of our #localimpact campaign we want to share the work of #PoliceNow participant PC Nilufar Ali, who was shortlisted for a Tilley Award for her work tackling street drinking and drug dealing alongside @WMPolice @WestMidsPCC
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4 years
“I want to welcome our new participants to policing and Police Now. Over the summer you will learn from some exceptional police officers, so that you are ready to work in our communities to keep people safe and so enable them to thrive" 1/2
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2 years
Over 400 officers graduated from our National Graduate Leadership Programme this week. Speaking at their graduation ceremony this afternoon, ACC Matt Ward of @WMPolice told participants they “reflect the best of UK policing” - congratulations cohort 6 👏🏼
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8 years
Best of luck to the new officers starting in their forces today! We're confident you'll be great! #PoliceNow
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7 years
Confidence in the police has grown in 17% amongst young people in communities with a #PoliceNow officer #PNImpactReport #PNFacts
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2 years
Six new officers on our National Graduate Leadership Programme officially join @EssexPoliceUK this week, where they will work as neighbourhood police officers to transform communities, reduce crime, and build public confidence in the police service.
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“51% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people believe that the criminal justice system discriminates against particular groups and individuals”. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can change the story. #GraduateRecruitment #PoliceNow #ChangeTheStory
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2 years
DC Yvonne Newman, #PoliceNow Frontline Leadership Programme participant, shares her passion for empowering and supporting women and officers from ethnic minority backgrounds @ThamesVP . #RaceEqualityWeek2023 #ItsEveryonesBusiness
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8 years
Applications for our National #Graduate Leadership Programme are still open for 2017 entry. Apply here:
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4 years
Following the death of one of our policing colleagues in Croydon this morning, below is a statement from David Spencer, CEO and Co-founder, Police Now.
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7 years
Well done to all 229 of our graduates who have successfully registered & passed the initial testing today 🙌The #PNSummerAcademy begins soon!
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3 years
Congratulations to the 50 #PoliceNow officers who attended their Confirmation in Rank ceremonies @gmpolice this week, recognising them as substantive police constables following their recent graduation from the National Graduate Leadership Programme
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#PoliceNow supported the @ukhomeoffice Police Uplift Programme to surpass its target of recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers across England and Wales. We supported 27 forces during the programme and have shared some of our officers’ impact here:
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6 years
Congratulations to cohort 2 on completing the #PoliceNow programme 🎉 we wish you all the best in your future neighborhood, response, detective and other roles #ChangeTheStory
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3 years
Congratulations to the first ever cohort of detectives to graduate the #PoliceNow National Detective Programme last week, including DC Shiels @gmpolice who was awarded Best Overall Performance and DC Scrivens @ASPolice for Best Impact Assignment
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6 years
The final 100 Day Impact Event for #PoliceNow cohort 2 has kicked off with an exciting panel discussing how they have made an impact as leaders in policing and society
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2 years
19 new officers land in @ThamesVP today having just completed our National Graduate Leadership Programme academy. They will continue #PoliceNow 's programme in force, working as neighbourhood police officers to reduce crime and support their communities
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6 years
Over the last five years Police Now has recruited and trained over 630 police officers. 90% of them are still serving as police officers. 6/8
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6 years
I’m proud of them and am grateful for the work that they and their colleagues are doing in what are often challenging circumstances. 8/8
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2 years
PC Najibi arrived in the UK aged 5 as an Afghan refugee. Two decades on, he joined @SurreyPolice and is using his personal experiences and language skills to support over 200 Afghan refugees as a #PoliceNow neighbourhood officer @ElmbridgeBeat @ElmbridgeBC
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#PoliceNow officer PC Rosie Rowe and her @WMPolice colleagues have been working with @unibirmingham to improve women’s safety in the city and send a clear message that violence against women will not be tolerated. #WhiteRibbonDay
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Congrats to #PoliceNow participant PC Ukpelukpe for passing her LLB with Merit from @EdinburghUni and passing out at Hendon on the same day!
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#PoliceNow participant PC Osborne developed ‘The Call In’ initiative with her colleagues @ASPolice @AandSPCC . Designed to offer repeat young drug offenders a chance to move away from a life of crime, the programme is seeing positive #localimpact results
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6 years
....54% are women, and 20% are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background (compared to 13% of the UK population). 5/8
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7 years
We are thrilled to have been named Graduate Scheme of the Year last night at @personneltoday Awards! Visit to find out more.
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“this job is everything I wanted it to be and so much more” read our latest blog by PC Mtitimila of @cheshirepolice
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2 years
#PoliceNow officer PC Whild was instrumental in rolling out the life-saving medication Naloxone and led the evaluation of its pilot study in @WMPolice . Now a national expert, he is supporting other forces to introduce the medication. #AlumniSpotlight
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This year, of those who were successful in their application to the programme: 53% were the first in their family to go to university, 14% received free school meals (compared to 13.6% of the population as a whole)..... 4/8
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3 years
@KarenGeddes18 , Chair of @WMPBAPA , reflects on the question ‘could you make a difference?’ and the importance of diversity in the police force in our latest blog post.
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7 years
We are hugely grateful to have Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe, former @metpoliceuk Commissioner, with us today at the #PoliceNow impact event sharing highlights and teachings from his 38-year policing career. Sir Bernard's top tip for our participants "Keep asking for feedback".
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2 years
Today, 148 PC’s completed the National Graduate Leadership Programme Academy, following several inputs from senior officers and speakers. Good luck in your forces cohort 8! 🚔 “We know you’re brilliant police officers, now go and show everyone else.”
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7 years
Our #SpringInduction has kicked off to a superb start today. We've met hundreds of soon-to-be police officers who will be joining 17 forces across the country later this year #makeadifference #PoliceNow
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10 years
Join us here to tomorrow! Sgt. James Beattie will be tweeting throughout his shift from 1pm!
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3 years
PC Javid joined @WMPolice via #PoliceNow ’s National Graduate Leadership Programme and has since become the Faith Forum Lead in Birmingham East. He is working with faith leaders on several community initiatives: #JoinThePolice now:
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. @Police_Now welcomes new Prog Director @policecommander in his Christmas suit! Raising £ for @UK_COPS @ThePDTrust
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8 years
Applications to Police Now 2017 open in one month! #resultsday2016 #careers #policing #students
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2 years
Congratulations to our newest cohort of detectives who completed Police Now’s #NDPacademy today! They were addressed by @SharnBasra at today's closing ceremony and will soon join their respective forces for the remainder of the National Detective Programme
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4 years
Interested in becoming a neighbourhood police officer? Register your interest for our National Graduate Leadership Programme to hear more about our events and activities, and to hear when applications are open #GradJobs
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#PoliceNow officer PC Hussain spoke with @looknorthBBC about her work to build public confidence in policing and engage with her community as a neighbourhood police officer in @Humberbeat . #JoinThePolice via the National Graduate Leadership Programme:
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@Police_Now
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Congratulations to Lord Simon Woolley of Woodford, founder and director of @OpBlackVote , who has recently been named as one of #100GreatBlackBritons . We are proud to have Lord Simon Woolley on our Diversity and Inclusion Committee and as a member of our Board of Trustees
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Welcome to the newest cohort of #PoliceNow ’s Frontline Leadership Programme. The programme will develop their leadership skills and offer access to a national policing network, as they prepare for promotion and lead in ways that build trust and confidence in our police service.
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“I love it as I’m in my local community every day so I can see my work making a real difference” PC Latia Suen, participant on our National Graduate Leadership Programme, talks about her experience as a neighbourhood police officer with @SurreyPolice
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#PoliceNow participant PC Halepota works alongside his neighbourhood policing colleagues @SurreyPolice and won a national Tilley Award for his work tackling ASB in the community @SurreyPCC @CCGavinStephens @DCCNevKemp #localimpact
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A huge thanks to all our guest speakers today for delivering such an informative, engaging and fun masterclass about evidence based policing #EBP
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Although you don’t need any prior knowledge of policing to join one of our programmes, Police Now participant PC Coleman tells us about her policing family and what inheriting her late grandfather’s collar number means to her:
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Tune in to @BBCCrimewatch tomorrow to see PC Javid, participant on our National Graduate Leadership Programme, talk about his experience joining @WMPolice and policing with a speech impediment #crimewatch
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"Police Now’s mission to transform communities is as essential today as it ever has been. Welcome to the team.” David Spencer, CEO, Police Now welcomes our latest cohort of participants to their Summer Academy today. 2/2
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#PoliceNow participants PC Kim Daniel & PC James Maskrey work in @gmpolice neighbourhood teams, James has been tackling ASB on a housing estate and Kim recently identified and arrested a man on the force wanted list @MabsHussainMBE @greatermcr #localimpact
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7 years
The Police Now 100 Day Impact event begins! #neighbourhoodpolicing #PoliceNow
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4 years
Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, below is a statement from Police Now’s Chief Executive Officer, David Spencer. Please also see the National Police Chiefs' Council statement that was published earlier today
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PC Kim Daniel, #PoliceNow officer @GMPolice , led a successful five-month investigation into shoplifting and brought a prolific offender to justice: #JoinThePolice and make a difference in your community as a neighbourhood officer:
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PC Paige Zima joined @metpoliceuk via #PoliceNow ’s National Graduate Leadership Programme. She tells us about her role as a neighbourhood police officer below ⬇️ #NeighbourhoodPolicingWeek Apply now:
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Home Office
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"There's such a good work morale and everybody's raring & ready to go for the next shift." 👮‍♀️ PC Paige Zima is helping to make our neighbourhoods safer as one of the new police officers as part of the Government's recruitment drive to deliver 20,000 additional police officers.
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This is done by many organisations in their recruitment process. We do this because we are committed to finding the best and most diverse group of people to join the policing frontline. 3/8
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The #PNSummerAcademy begins!
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#Impact2019 @metpoliceuk Deputy Commissioner Sir Steve House tells delegates his own thoughts of policing “we have to change because society is changing around us.”
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Applications for our National #Graduate Leadership Programme are still open for 2017 entry. Apply here:
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Great to see one of our syndicate leads, Paul Austin, has passed his Inspectors Board #congratulations @InspPaulAustin
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Police Now CEO, Dave Spencer opens the first ever joint 100 Day Impact Event with 2015 and 2016 participants
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Passing Out Parade with our Police Now recruits. #ProudMoment
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Seen now @NetworkRailPAD , PC Grocott's notice boards warning tourists about bogus #police officers #CrimePrevention
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We ask questions about people’s background so that we can track the data to make sure that we are not inadvertently disadvantaging any particular groups in the assessment process. 2/8
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#PoliceNow officer PC Mohammad Shahzad, member of @WestMids_CA ’s Faith Strategic Partnership Group, tells us about last year’s Faith in Action Summit and his work supporting faith communities in his area. @WMPolice @SmethwickWMP #NeighbourhoodPolicingWeek
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@Haywireharris @CollegeofPolice You’re right. We need to change the system to give the option of “prefer not to say”. ^Dave
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Here are some of our fantastic Frontline Leadership Programme participants with their graduation certificates. Today, they are a part of the first ever cohort to complete the programme. We can’t wait to see the progress that they will all make across their forces and communities.
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#PoliceNow participant PC Naomi Marrone received a commendation for successfully talking a distressed man down from a bridge just 2 weeks into her neighbourhood role with @Humberbeat , you can read more about her work in @LincsWorld #localimpact
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