Category: A Commonwealth For Everyone

Nadean is a Coordination and Readiness Planner for the Commonwealth Games planning team. Nadean’s mother came to England when she was very young and settled in Handsworth, Birmingham. It would be three decades before she got to go back and visit her home country. Nadean was lucky enough to accompany her, and here is where …

Amie Njie-Sowe is a team leader in the vehicle recovery unit  and has worked for West Midlands Police for 13 years. She was born in Banjul, the capital city of Gambia, a small country in West Africa. Amie travelled to the UK when she was 20 years old for further education back in 1991. Amie …

Gill Squires has worked for WMP for 28 years, most of that time has been spent in Family Protection, while raising her three children. In 2009, she was given the opportunity to again work in the Public Protection Unit (PPU), as policy lead for honour based abuse, forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM). This …

On Commonwealth Day we launched the ‘A Commonwealth for Everyone’ series – celebrating and sharing stories of our WMP colleagues who have connections to Commonwealth countries. For our second interview, we spoke with Vanessa Milton who has worked for WMP for 27 years in different roles. She started out in 1992 as a Special Constable, then …