The External Assurance Group (EAG) independently scrutinises the Commission’s proposed methodologies and approaches for carrying out its investigations. Kate Meynell, Chair of the National Police Chiefs Council Homicide Working Group, and Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police, chairs the group.
The group includes members with a range of experience including:
- homicide and terrorism investigation and prosecution;
- human rights law;
- victim care and trauma focus; and
- experience of these areas within Northern Ireland.
View the group’s Terms of Reference
Chair of the External Assurance Group: Chief Constable Kate Meynell
Chief Constable Kate Meynell took the reins at Nottinghamshire Police in December 2022. Previously the Deputy Chief Constable at Derbyshire Constabulary, she has returned to the force where she began and spent most of her career.
Kate, who grew up in Nottinghamshire, described her new role as her “dream job”. She said: “Nottinghamshire Police has a positive, strong workforce and I do feel we have the opportunity now to continue the improvements already started. I genuinely care passionately about the force and want to build on the good work that has been done and build relationships with external partners and communities.”
She spent most of her career serving with Nottinghamshire Police, including a two-and-a-half-year spell as Assistant Chief Constable when she led the force’s knife crime strategy and chaired the county strategic response to the Covid pandemic.
She is also the chair of the National Homicide Working Group, which looks into ways to improve the quality of investigations into homicide, including working on a national homicide reduction strategy.