Talk:Sara Thornton (police officer)

Police won't turn up to crimes

When Mrs/Miss Thornton was a police constable, she stated in the news that police might not turn up if there was a burglary and the perpetrator had already fled, similarly they might not turn up if say an iPad was stolen. This was significant news and caused a stir, but yet there's no mention of it. It seems that she has a squeaky clean wiki page. Here is a good (i think) source https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11770814/If-the-police-wont-investigate-a-burglary-what-is-the-point-of-them.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.4.80.121 (talk) 18:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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Article updates requested

Introductory paragraph - [ADD BELOW TO THIS SECTION]

Thornton is Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, a large-scale research centre dedicated to ending slavery by 2030, taking up her post in May 2020. In November 2022, she also joined CCLA Investment Management, a responsible investment pioneer and the UK’s largest charity investment manager, as Consultant - Modern Slavery.

Career / Other posts - [CREATE THIS NEW SECTION]

Nottingham Rights Lab

Thornton is Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, a large-scale research centre dedicated to ending slavery by 2030. She focuses on research in the area of prevention, business responses, supply chains, and the role of the financial sector in tackling modern slavery. Her work also has a focus on policy-relevant modern slavery research, and achieving impact from research evidence in national and international contexts.

CCLA

Thornton joined CCLA Investment Management, a responsible investment pioneer and the UK’s largest charity investment manager, in November 2022 as Consultant - Modern Slavery. She will be helping to shape CCLA’s Modern Slavery strategy and the future development of the Find it, Fix it, Prevent it programme while acting as an ambassador for the initiative. 146.198.82.108 (talk) 13:02, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

@146.198.82.108 Made the requested edits (after review). Cheers. Duke Gilmore (talk) 03:18, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

@Duke Gilmore: I reverted the addition because it is largely unsourced (see WP:BLP) and contains promotional/PR-y wording (e.g. responsible investment pioneer). I did re-add a sentence about her appointment as a professor. --Blablubbs (talk) 10:56, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Please correct information in introduction - she took up post at Nottingham Rights Lab in May 2020.

Could her appointment at CCLA be updated to the below (removed promotional wording). There are recent news articles which support and confirm her new position:

Thornton joined CCLA Investment Management, the investment fund manager, in November 2022 as Consultant - Modern Slavery. She will be helping to shape CCLA’s Modern Slavery strategy and the future development of the Find it, Fix it, Prevent it programme while acting as an ambassador for the initiative. 146.198.82.108 (talk) 13:40, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

I've removed the date for now since you're contesting it. Can you provide a source for the 2020 appointment? The current sourcing would imply that her becoming a professor happened this year (Guardian: Thornton, who left on 30 April when her three-year tenure came to an end [...] Thornton, who is now a professor; and the appointment announcement is from April). If you want to include the CCLA part, please provide reliable sources to substantiate it. For what it's worth, the second part of the proposed addition still reads quite PR-y to me. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:58, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Apologies, you are correct about the 2022 date re Notting Rights Lab appointment.

For CCLA, here are the sources:

https://citywire.com/wealth-manager/news/dame-sara-thornton-joins-ccla-in-anti-slavery-role/a2402215

https://www.responsible-investor.com/uk-risks-falling-behind-on-modern-slavery-warns-commissioner/

https://portfolio-adviser.com/ex-uk-anti-slavery-commissioner-joins-ccla/

https://www.room151.co.uk/brief/former-anti-slavery-commissioner-joins-ccla/ 146.198.82.108 (talk) 17:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC)