Joanna Spicer

First appointed: October 1994

Re-appointed: 1997, 2001, May 2005, July 2009

Term expires: June 2013

Member of the following committees:  
Police Authority (Chairman)          
Strategic Development Panel (Chairman)
Performance Management Group

Safer Neighbourhood Team link member for:
St Edmundsbury Rural North
St Edmundsbury Rural South                                                       

Membership or representation on outside bodies:   
Association of Police Authorities Council         
County Domestic Violence Forum
Eastern Region Joint Statutory Committee
Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Statutory Committee
Suffolk Public Sector Leaders
Safer Suffolk Partnership Board

Joanna Spicer has been a member of Suffolk Police Authority since it was established in 1994 and, prior to that, she was a member of the Suffolk County Council Police Committee. She is the county councillor for the Blackbourn Ward and lives at Pakenham near Bury St Edmunds.

Currently, Joanna is Chairman of Suffolk Police Authority.  She is a member of the Safer Communities Board of the Local Government Association, which is currently spending a considerable amount of time in discussions with the Government about the future accountability arrangements for policing.

She says "In my time on the police authority I have worked with five Chief Constables and am confident that we have an excellent top team at present which puts us in a strong position to respond to the current challenging financial reductions at the same time as a major change to police authorities"