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David Bailey
Digital Engagement Manager, Police Digital Service
Profile
David is a strategic communications and engagement leader experienced in supporting citizens, communities, leaders, and organisations to engage with each other effectively enabling communities to work together. Achieving this by building expertise in public relations, communications using traditional and digital engagement tools and approaches with over 20 years of experience in police communications, engagement and change leadership, David has built a strong reputation of driving, delivering and helping policing to change and excel across a huge range of issues. Achieving this by building expertise in public relations, communications using traditional and digital engagement, always learning and sharing to deliver effective outcomes for the benefit of stakeholders. Challenging colleagues to succeed, developing innovative solutions and using evidence-based decision making to continually improve, learning from failure and celebrating success.
David recently undertook the role of Head of Communications at the NPCC National Enabling Programmes (NEP) after 10 weeks leading on public messaging for the National Police Chiefs Council response to Covid-19.
Previously David led the NPCC Social Media Project driving and supporting change in forces to deliver a truly citizen focused social media enabled service.
Now as part of the Police Digital Service (PDS), continuing to support adoption and communications of the National Enabling Programmes and the wider PDS digital engagement. Hosting weekly webinars which help policing adapt to the implementation of new technology and working methods.
David continues to provide strategic and tactical support to all forces and national policing and being a single point of liaison between UK Policing and the big tech companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, and other digital agencies whilst representing policing at key meetings with other partners, stakeholders and government departments.