{"id":6,"date":"2016-07-09T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:24:07","slug":"hugh-marriage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After university, I was a <strong>prison psychologist<\/strong> for 19 years before moving to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">the central <strong>Home Office, <\/strong>then in Queen Anne&#8217;s Gate, for another 19 years, and working on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">animal welfare (scientific procedures, dangerous dogs, seals, badgers etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">child protection<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the probation service<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the introduction of electronic tagging<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">charities and the voluntary sector<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-438 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2\/files\/2016\/07\/H-pic-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"H pic\" width=\"266\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/07\/H-pic-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/07\/H-pic-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/07\/H-pic-1024x888.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/files\/2016\/07\/H-pic.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As Head of the Home Office&#8217;s <strong>Criminal Policy Strategy Unit<\/strong>,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I dealt with (amongst other things):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">race equality and race crime;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">violence against women; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">implementating\u00a0the <i>Human Rights Act 1998 <\/i>in the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Criminal Justice System<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">before becoming the first<strong> Home Office<\/strong> <strong>Regional Director<\/strong> for the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">South East of England, sometimes called <strong>Crime Reduction<\/strong> <strong>Director.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I remain passionate about crime issues. In particular, I am concerned about the extreme danger to which women (and their children) are exposed as soon as they indicate that they wish to end a relationship &#8211; for that is when they are murdered. \u00a0The world would become a safer place if that single, simple fact were more widely appreciated. \u00a0Several of my speeches bang on about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have included as well a think-piece I gave in March 2014 about the future of Salcombe Harbour (last on the list). It is quite fun to read now, 10 years on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, in these days of AI I must make it absolutely clear that I do not consent in any way to generative AI systems &#8216;scraping&#8217; or copying any material or other information on this site, as I would regard this as a litigable breach of copyright.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After university, I was a prison psychologist for 19 years before moving to the central Home Office, then in Queen Anne&#8217;s Gate, for another 19 years, and working on: animal welfare (scientific procedures, dangerous dogs, seals, badgers etc) child protection the probation service the introduction of electronic tagging charities and the voluntary sector As Head of the Home Office&#8217;s Criminal Policy Strategy Unit, I dealt with (amongst other things): race equality and race crime; violence against women; and implementating\u00a0the Human&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/\">read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/hugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}