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Jim McDonald, CBE, LVO, KCSG, GCHS, JP, DL a former member of the Police Authority and Trustee of the RUC GC Museum, has been appointed the first Chairman of the Foundation.
Jim lives in Belfast and is a former Chief Officer of the Labour Relations Agency. He is the Independent Assessor of the Military Complaints Procedures in Northern Ireland. He has a background in working with young people having worked with The Prince’s Trust for some 25 years. He has experience of consumer affairs and as a qualified Accountant was awarded an MSc in Social Policy from the University of Ulster.
The trustees are:
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| Kate Carlisle, MBE, ex Superintendent |
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Kate Carlisle served in the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC for 32 years retiring as a Superintendent, in the role of Sub Divisional Commander in June 1995.
She held many posts within the RUC and for several years had responsibility for Management Training of Sergeants, Inspectors and Chief Inspectors. She attended several courses at Police Colleges in England, including CID and Command Courses.
She is married and has one daughter and her interests extend from music, gardening and foreign travel to walking. She is on the Board of Directors of the Police Fund of Northern Ireland, and was for many years the chairman of the RUC Ladies Choir.
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| Freddie Hall, OBE, QGM, DL, MA, MCIPD |
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Freddie Hall served in the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC for 32 years, retiring as an Assistant Chief Constable in March 2001. He held various command posts across Northern Ireland as well as Personnel, Training and Detective appointments at Headquarters. He holds a BA degree in Public Administration and a MA degree in Legal Studies. Mr Hall was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal in 1977 and the OBE in 1997.
During his service Mr Hall attended Staff College courses in the UK and USA and served on the Directing staff of the National Police College at Bramshill, England. He also spent an attachment to US Police Departments and has studied policing methods in Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Cyprus and Estonia. He now works as a Training Consultant and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Antrim in July 2007.
He is a married man with four children, aged 22 – 32 years. His interests include church work, foreign travel, rambling and sport. He is also a past Chairman and now a “Life-member” of the RUCGC Historical Society.
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| Dame Geraldine Keegan, DBE, DL, an educationalist |
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Dame Geraldine was for 18 years, Head of St Mary’s College, Derry. During her career, she worked as a senior lecturer in Teacher Training and as Deputy Director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Education Management.
As well as working in the field of education, she holds membership of a number of public and professional bodies, including Northern Ireland representative on the UK Board of Investors in People. She has recently completed a four-year term as Pro-chancellor of the University of Ulster and was appointed a Visiting Professor in Education at the University of Ulster in June 2001.
Because of the success of the school, she is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.
In 1995, she was awarded an OBE for “services to education” and was made a Dame in 2000.
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Bertha McDougall, the widow of part-time RUC Reservist Lindsay McDougall, was educated at Methodist College Belfast and returned to higher education to train as a teacher having taken a break to raise her three sons.
She was a primary school teacher for fifteen years before being seconded to the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Development where she is co-ordinator for EMU (Education for Mutual Understanding) in cross community projects. Her last position was as Principal Officer with the Council for Curriculum Examinations and Assessment (CCEA). She is a Trustee of the Phoenix Energy for Children Charitable Trust.
In October 2005 Bertha was appointed as the Interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors for a period of one year. Her interests are church, singing and travelling.
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| Trevor Ringland, a Belfast solicitor |
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Trevor Ringland was educated at Larne Grammar School and Queen’s University, Belfast. Both his father and grandfather served in the RUC.
He played rugby for Ulster, Ireland and British Lions and was a member of the Sports Council for Northern Ireland; a member of the Committee of the Irish Rugby Football Union and now serves on the Northern Ireland Policing Board. He is a founding member of the SPARKS (N.I.) charity; a partner of Action Medical Research.
Trevor is a Non Executive Director of the Independent News & Media (N.I.) Ltd, a Director of Ireland Funds, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and the IRFU Charitable Trust.
He is a married man with three children.
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