A huge thank you to Mike Rowe and the POLSTOP team for the opportunity to contribute to this special edition! Very exciting to see my first journal article on the use of #BWV in #stopandsearch community scrutiny panels published! BCUProfessionalPolicing

#WorldMentalHealthDay Photo: Oct ‘17 - sat writing my book ‘Still Standing’ & a friend text to ask how I was doing. I was honest & sent this. Broken. Suffering horrific PTSD. But not showing this. Outside I smiled as best I could. Reach out & find out how people REALLY are 🙏🏽❤️

A huge shock winning Alley Of the year Award 2023 Black Owned Birmingham over at the Aston Villa FC thank you to all those who voted&believed in me Bham City Council BYS Youth Service WMLieutenancy @HighSheriffWM23 Our Community Foundation Basharat Dad LeaderofBirmingham Simon Foster Andy Street Department for Culture, Media and Sport #BOBA23

'We need a police service effective at preventing, tackling and reducing crime. I want to hear from you so I can take the action necessary to deliver change.'

Please take part in Simon Foster's survey and let us know your thoughts!

Take part: westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/fairness-and-b…

A fantastic day meeting up with our trainers across both Stop and Search & Precious Lives, discussing the year ahead and receiving an training input from the amazing Lee Autism West Midlands

Thank you all so much for your hard work, passion and dedication, such an amazing team 🌟

A pleasure to win the Community Inspiration Public Service Award 2023 Community Foundation presented by Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP Minster of State for International Development Thank you all for voting Bham City Council BYS Youth Service WMLieutenancy Department for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Street LeaderofBirmingham Simon Foster

My fabulous WestMidsPCC Precious Lives Team - Working together to support our young people across the region to understand the impact and reality of knife crime.
Helping young people to make positive choices to live their safest lives 🙏🏽

To apply to be one of our next round of youth commissioners see here👇

westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/youth-commissi… 2/3

🤔 Are you aged 18 or under and looking to make a real difference in your community?

🤩 PCC Simon Foster is looking for his next intake of Youth Commissioners - a great opportunity to shape your future - and that of the West Midlands!

📲 Apply now: westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/youth-commissi…

Are you aged 18 or under and looking to make a real difference to your community?

Do you want to engage with the police and senior decision makers?

PCC Simon Foster is looking for his next intake of Youth Commissioners!

Apply: westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/youth-commissi…

We could not be prouder of you Amman! ⭐️

Many congratulations from Simon Foster and all the OPCC!

Hajj Mubarak 🕋
And Eid Mubarak to those celebrating today and tomorrow ✨

It was a wonderful honour to receive the ‘Outstanding Young Citizen’ Award on Saturday 10th June. The event was held at Lloyd House Police HQ in Birmingham in a classy, intimate setting.

The PCC presented me with the award after a selection process from a pool of nominees.

🎖️ Darnish Amraz MBE has also been awarded an MBE for his incredible work as a youth worker in Birmingham. He is also one of our stop and search trainers and won Simon Foster's award at the Diamond Awards last year! Well done Darnish!

Honoured&speechless it’s still sinking in,an MBE for my work with young people in #Birmingham thank you everyone for your kind messages &support Bham City Council BYS Youth Service WMLieutenancy The Royal Family birminghammail ITV News Central BBC Asian Network Asian Express News The Times and The Sunday Times

A look into how to create more effective education programmes about knife crime. Worth a read!

This just shows the damaging effects of a knife 🔪 #lifeorknife Project Guardian Team WMP West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership The Daniel Baird Foundation #ControlTheBleed🩸 Stu Hill weapon surrender Tom McNeil West Midlands Police shezè malik fearless.org Lives Not Knives (no knives used only a pen)

An exciting opportunity for young people keen to bring about positive change in their communities!

Thank you to everybody who made this event and absolute success!! We hope everyone found it as informative and as useful as we did! 🥰
It was lovely to see all the young ones engaging with the content taught! We hope to see more of this in the future👍🏽 #upliftbirmingham #wmp #BCC

Stop&search workshop @WalsallSU organised by shezè malik from
WestMidsPCC educating young people about their rights Tom McNeil Simon Foster Cllr Nicky Brennan Walsall Council West Midlands Police WMLieutenancy @HighSheriffWM23