James Corrigan joined CJI as an Inspector in October 2004. James previously worked for PA Consulting Group as a senior consultant in public sector practice where he was responsible for a number of criminal justice projects.
These included a major project for the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales on reducing delays and a Scottish Executive project on tackling youth offending. He has also specialised in the evaluation and review of organisations, particularly within the criminal justice sector in the UK and Ireland. Prior to his work with PA, James worked as an international management consultant in London and Brussels on the evaluation of European Commission programmes and projects. Much of this work focused on the pre-accession process for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and involved work with governments in all of these states. Before becoming a management consultant, James worked as a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast in the Institute of European Studies.
James is responsible for leading a number of inspections including the ongoing work in the State Pathology Department and Forensic Science Northern Ireland. He has also taken forward a major thematic project on delay in the criminal justice system, which examined the causes of and remedies for delays, and was published in May 2006.
James holds an MA in Political Science and a BA in History and Politics both from the National University of Ireland (University College, Dublin).
Tom McGonigle has been an Inspector since November 2003. He leads for CJI on custody and probation inspections. He has also led thematic inspections on public protection issues such as the management of sex offenders and life sentence prisoners, the contribution of offender hostels and the voluntary sector to the Northern Ireland criminal justice system.
Tom joined the Northern Ireland Probation Service in 1980, and worked in a range of fieldwork, custodial and community settings as a practitioner and manager. He became Deputy Director of St Patrick’s Juvenile Justice Centre in 1996, and joined NIACRO as Director of Operations following the closure of St Patrick's in 2000. In addition to his local operational background, Tom has visited prisons and probation services in several countries and brings a wider international perspective on corrections practice and oversight to CJI.
Tom holds a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work and Certificate in Applied Social, Youth and Community Studies (Magee College Derry); an MA in Social Anthropology (Queen's University Belfast) and a BA (Hons) in Irish Studies (University of Ulster). He is also a qualified NVQ assessor in criminal justice and care.
Bill Priestley joined CJI in January 2005. He had previously managed the National Police (Centrex) Quality Approval Award and, as head of the Centrex (now NPIA) Race and Diversity Unit, he had responsibility for the national development programme in response to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report. Following this programme Bill led the Centrex response to the publication of the HMIC report 'Diversity Matters' in 2003 and implemented an organisational self-assessment using the ‘Diversity Excellence Model’.
Bill has worked as an independent training and development consultant, designing, delivering, and evaluating training in Human Rights, Freedom of Information and Managing Diversity with organisations including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Science Technology Laboratories. He has also designed and quality assured national assessment centre processes for police promotion.
Bill strongly supports the CJI approach to inspection as promoting organisational development aimed at enhancing the level of service delivered by public bodies. Bill has led CJI inspections of:
· The Office of the Police Ombudsman;
· Volume Crime and Police Bail;
· Connecting Criminal Justice – Causeway – the integrated IT system;
· Handling of Complaints;
· Youth Conference Service;
· HR Management in the PSNI – in partnership with HMIC,
· Belfast Harbour Police;
· The Royal Mail Group; and,
· Policing with the Community.
He is an accredited assessor for the EFQM Excellence Model™ and was the internal lead when an independent assessor facilitated CJI through our first self-assessment process in October 2007.
Bill graduated as Master of Laws (LLM - Human Rights) from the University of Leeds in December 2004. He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science (University of Ulster) and a Certificate in Post-Compulsory Education (Canterbury Christ Church University).
During her time with Centrex Rachel was involved as a Psychologist designing and delivering the National Recruitment Assessment Centres for Police Constables. From 2004 she had responsibility for designing and delivering promotion assessment centres for the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a Higher Psychologist.
Prior to this Rachel worked for two years as a Personnel Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust while studying for her MSc in Occupational Psychology.
In addition to her Masters degree, Rachel holds a BSc Hons in Psychology from the University of Birmingham and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Leeds Metropolitan University. Rachel is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.