2023 BRAVERY NOMINATIONS THE JUDGES’ PANEL


BRYN HUGHES, Medals for Heroes campaigner


Bryn is a retired prison officer with 25 years’ service, and the father of PC Nicola Hughes, who was murdered in Manchester in 2012 while on duty, alongside her colleague Fiona Bone. Bryn is a recipient of the Long


Service & Good Conduct medal with most of his service in the High-Security Prisons Group (HSPG). During the last 10 years of his service, he was an operations manager tasked with the Exceptional Risk Unit in the HSPG. Bryn retired early and now works with the Ministry of Justice as a member of the Victims’ Panel. In 2014, he established a charity in memory of Nicola, which provides practical help and support to children of murder victims. His initiative was recognised in the New Year Honours List 2023 and was conferred MBE. Bryn launched a campaign alongside the PFEW and prison staff associations calling for the Government to institute Medals for Heroes, a posthumous award recognising emergency service personnel who have laid down their lives in the line of duty. He lives in Marsden near Manchester and enjoys running marathons in his spare time.


during the Queen’s funeral last year and at the King’s Coronation. Penny was one of the 14 celebrities


to take part in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2007 and was a quarter-finalist on BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef in 2021. She is married to rock singer Sir


Rod Stewart and they have two sons, Alastair, 18, and Aiden, 12.


TIFF LYNCH, Deputy National Chair, PFEW


Tiff joined Leicestershire Police


in 1995 and was the youngest in the force at the age of 19. Throughout her policing career, she has specialised in firearms, tactical support, and frontline as a general response and beat officer. Her Federation career started


in 2007 with progression to the post of Chair of Leicestershire’s Constables Committee (2011-2014); the first female Chair of Leicestershire Police Federation (2014-2018); and National Board member of the Police Federation of England and Wales (2018-present).


based educators who spend their time delivering key services to police officers and staff. These include financial education, health, wellbeing, and mental health services, as well as offering respite support. Kerry and her team support police officers attending major events. They provided wellbeing services at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Kerry is honoured to be a member of the judging panel for the National Police Bravery Awards, supporting the officers who go above and beyond their call of duty, by sponsoring the awards.


VERNAL SCOTT, Diversity and


Inclusion Manager, Essex Police Vernal is a


KERRY


PENNY LANCASTER, Model, photographer, and television personality


Penny is best known as a panellist for the hit ITV lunchtime show Loose Women. After appearing on Channel 4’s Famous and Fighting Crime 2019, she volunteered to become a special constable. She joined the City of London Police after completing training in April 2021, and was on duty


MCMAHON- WHITE, Head of Partnership, Police Mutual


Kerry has worked for Police Mutual for eight years. Kerry leads and provides strategic guidance to Police & Forces Mutual to ensure the business achieves its purpose and objectives. As well as the overall leadership of both brands, her role includes the management of relationships with the police forces and the Federation. She is supported by a team of relationship managers and field-


charismatic and deeply passionate diversity and inclusion public servant of more than four decades. In the mid-80s he launched the People’s (multicultural) Group at the London Lesbian & Gay Centre and later founded the Black Communities AIDS Team. In 1987, he was appointed Head of HIV services for Brent Council, and in 2003 he joined Islington Council as Head of Equality and Diversity. In 2017, Vernal joined Havering Council as their equality lead, and in June 2020, during the worldwide BLM protests which followed the murder of George Floyd by a serving US police officer, Vernal was appointed to his current role at Essex Police. His uplifting “Support the Blue!” tweets won him thousands of mostly law enforcement followers.


His timely arrival in policing adds to his fascinating career footprint. He is rightly acknowledged on respective UK Black and LGBTQ History websites and appears as himself in Addicted to Love, an extensive television biopic on the tragic life of music superstar Whitney Houston.


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