Honours given for policing and education roles
A top police officer and the chair of Bath College’s governors are among the local people to be named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
Carole Stott MBE becomes an OBE in the list for her services to education. She has also served as chair of the Association of Colleges and Find a Future.
The Queen’s Police Medal has been awarded to the Assistant Chief Constable of
Avon and Somerset, Nikki Watson. She joined the force in 1987 and heads the Investigations and Operational Support directorates including roads, police dogs, police horses and firearms, major and complex crimes and intelligence.
She has overall responsibility for leading Avon and Somerset Police’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic both externally and internally.
Avon and Somerset colleague Superintendent Andy Bennett has also
been awarded the Queen’s Police Medal. The Bristol police commander became a national figure after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in June.
Dr Josephine Maria Farrar OBE is named a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for public service. She is the chief executive officer for HM Prison
and Probation Service.
And a British Empire Medal is awarded to Joshua Hale for his services to the community in Bath during the Covid-19 response.
Since the start of the outbreak, he has been working to support more than 2,000 volunteers who signed up with Bath’s charity support group 3SG in response to Covid-19.
The group is a third sector infrastructure organisation for Bath and North East Somerset and supports local community groups, charities and social enterprises in and around the city.
Joshua led the 3SG Befriending scheme and worked together with others to create and distribute physical wellbeing packs to adults across B&NES who don’t have internet access.