Deborah Glass

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Deborah Glass OBE (born 1959) is an Australian lawyer, who was the Victorian Ombudsman between March 2014 and March 2024., [1] when she was succeeded by Marlo Baragwanath.

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A lawyer by profession, [2] she spent her formative years in Melbourne, Australia, before taking her career overseas to Switzerland, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. From 2008 to 2014, Glass was the deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in the United Kingdom. [2] She was also one of the IPCC's ten operational Commissioners, in which capacity she had joint regional responsibility for London and the South-East. [2]

Early years

Glass was born in 1959 in Bega, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne. She attended Mount Scopus Memorial College and then Monash University, where she obtained her BA in 1980 and LLB in 1982.

Career

Glass practiced law briefly in Melbourne, before relocating to Switzerland in 1985 to work for Citicorp, a US Investment Bank. In 1989 she was appointed to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, where she became Senior Director and was instrumental in raising standards in the investment management industry. She then moved to London in 1998 where she became Chief Executive of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, which under her stewardship was successfully subsumed into the London-based Financial Services Authority. She also worked as an Independent custody visitor between 1999 and 2005. In 2001, Glass was appointed to the Police Complaints Authority, and in 2004 became a Commissioner with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). She was the Commissioner responsible, among other things, for London, and for many high-profile criminal and misconduct investigations and decisions involving the police. These included decisions in relation to the police response to the News International phone hacking scandal phone-hacking affair, the death of Ian Tomlinson during the London G20 protests in 2009, [3] the decision to launch an independent investigation into the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, and the Plebgate affair. In 2012 Glass was awarded an Order of the British Empire for her service. She left the IPCC in March 2014, having completed a 10-year term with the organisation, which then published her personal critique of the police complaints system in England and Wales. Glass returned to Australia in 2014 and was appointed by the state government as Ombudsman Victoria for a 10-year fixed term. Glass was awarded Monash University Faculty of Law's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016.

Publications

Some of Glass's key investigations as Victorian Ombudsman have been:

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References

  1. ↑ "About - Victorian Ombudsman". Victorian Ombudsman. 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Alumni Stories: Deborah Glass". Monash University. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "IPCC publishes reports into Tomlinson case". www.wired-gov.net. Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC - formerly IPCC). 10 November 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2021– via wired.gov.
  4. ↑ "Investigation into Department of Health oversight of Mentone Gardens, a Supported Residential Service". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Investigation into the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners in Victoria". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Investigation into public transport fare evasion enforcement". Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Investigation into the management of complex workers compensation claims and WorkSafe oversight". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Investigation into the transparency of local government decision making". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Investigation into the management of maintenance claims against public housing tenants". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Implementing OPCAT in Victoria: report and inspection of the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Investigation into the financial support provided to kinship carers". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  12. ↑ "Investigation of a matter referred from the Legislative Council on 25 November 2015". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "Investigation into child sex offender Robert Whitehead's involvement with Puffing Billy and other railway bodies". Victorian Ombudsman. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  14. ↑ "WorkSafe2: Follow-up investigation into the management of complex workers compensation claims". Victorian Ombudsman. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  15. ↑ "Investigation into review of parking fines by the City of Melbourne". Victorian Ombudsman. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  16. ↑ "Investigation into the detention and treatment of public housing residents arising from a COVID-19 'hard lockdown' in July 2020". Victorian Ombudsman. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  17. ↑ "Investigation into the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions' administration of the Business Support Fund". Victorian Ombudsman. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  18. ↑ "Investigation into how local councils respond to ratepayers in financial hardship". Victorian Ombudsman. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  19. ↑ "Investigation of a matter referred from the Legislative Council on 9 February 2022 Part 1". Victorian Ombudsman. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  20. ↑ "Operation Watts, a joint investigation into allegations of serious corrupt conduct involving Victorian public officers, including Members of Parliament". Victorian Ombudsman. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  21. ↑ "WorkSafe 3: Investigation into Victorian self-insurers' claims management and WorkSafe oversight". Victorian Ombudsman. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  22. ↑ "Investigation into the Department of Transport and Planning's implementation of the zero and low emission vehicle charge". Victorian Ombudsman. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  23. ↑ "Watchdog for the people: 50 years of the Victorian Ombudsman". Victorian Ombudsman. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  24. ↑ "Investigation into healthcare provision for Aboriginal people in Victorian prisons". Victorian Ombudsman. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  25. ↑ "Reflections on 10 years". Victorian Ombudsman. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
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