BAPA history booklet
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2005 – Marcia Francis joined West Midlands Police in 2005 after<br />
quite a varied career including being a midwife, forensic scientist<br />
and even spending some time working in a prison. She became a<br />
detective early on and she now works within Public Protection<br />
doing bespoke work around digital and on-line crime. She recalls<br />
being encouraged to join <strong>BAPA</strong> from her early days with the force<br />
but it wasn’t until recently that she decided to join and became the<br />
General Secretary.<br />
DC Marcia Francis<br />
The Future<br />
In 2015 the National BPA conference was held at Tally Ho and was a<br />
resounding success. Speakers included Chief Constable David<br />
Thompson QPM LLB and Home Secretary Theresa May, who spoke of<br />
her disappointment that the police service as a whole had not done<br />
more to improve the representation of BME officers in its ranks. This is the first<br />
time a Home Secretary attended a <strong>BAPA</strong> conference, which demonstrates its rising<br />
importance and influence.<br />
WM<strong>BAPA</strong> members at the 2015 National <strong>BAPA</strong> conference held in Birmingham<br />
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