Janette has been a strategic leader in policing for over 30 years across a number of forces up to the rank of Chief Constable. She has experience of operational command as well as transformational change, leading on the development of shared services across a number of forces and the merger of police and fire corporate functions at a local level. She has a strong background in equality, diversity and inclusion within policing serving on a number of national forums including leading on Disability, Gypsies and Travellers and strategic workforce data. She was a senior police advisor on workforce transformation for the College of Policing and Director of Standards. She was awarded the Queens Police Medial in 2016. In August 2019 she was appointed as Programme Director for the Police Uplift Programme to deliver the government manifesto pledge of an unprecedented growth in policing over 3 years, which resulted in the recruitment of 47k officers. She is a Non-Executive Director for the Ministry of Defence on the Service Justice Board and for the Department of Education in the Teaching Regulation Agency.