Clare Mills, Co-Chair

Clare is privileged to be the Co-Chair of APComm.

Clare works at the NPCC as Head of Communications, where she is the lead for Police Reform. Prior to this role, Clare was the Head of Strategic Comms and Engagement for Wiltshire Police for 16 years, where she headed up a team of comms professionals. In that role, she was responsible for the development of the Force strategic internal, external and digital communication and engagement approach, led on organisational Reward and Recognition and led the communications for critical incidents, gold groups and other strategic issues.

Clare was responsible for leading the strategic communications approach for the inquiry into allegations of non-recent child abuse against the late Sir Edward Heath. She also led the significant and unprecedented communications for the local response to the Salisbury poisonings, which saw Wiltshire Police lead in the bringing together of multiple partners at both a local and national level to co-ordinate the response phase of the consequence management element of this global incident.

Clare has over 25 years' experience in police communications across four police forces/organisations and prior to becoming Co Chair, was a Vice Chair for 3 years. She is hugely passionate about public service comms and relishes the opportunity to support members across the country in her role as APComm Co-Chair, alongside Helen Wilson.

Tara Dundon, Secretary

Tara is the APComm Secretary and joined in September 2025. She carries out the role alongside her full-time communications role supporting neighbourhood and response policing at Cambridgeshire Constabulary.

Her role for APComm involves keeping members updated on upcoming events, training opportunities, and other news relevant to the policing comms sector through the monthly bulletin. She also manages the calendar of Executive and national meetings, documents minutes for both, manages the membership contacts database and other APComm documents, and offers support to elected Chairs at APComm-led events.   

In Cambridgeshire she works closely with Neighbourhood Policing Teams to promote their outstanding work, enhance public trust and confidence, and showcase the positive impact officers have on our communities.

Before joining policing, she began her career as a journalist on a daily newspaper before spending five years in the charity sector, helping an animal welfare organisation amplify its voice and mission.

If you have a question about APComm events and activities, or a general enquiry about APComm, Tara can help answer directly or signpost to the most appropriate elected member.

Hannah Easterby, Vice Chair

Hannah is Head of Media and Communications at Sussex Police, having joined the force as the department’s deputy in 2023. She leads the five discrete functions that are responsible for communicating the work of the force to the public, partners, and other stakeholders.

A Journalism and English Language graduate, she began her career as a reporter on a local newspaper in London, specialising in crime and court reporting, before moving into public sector communications.

She has developed a wealth of skills and experience in media relations, internal and external comms and crisis communications working at a variety of organisations including London Fire Brigade, The Army, a London council, and the NHS.

Passionate about diversity and steadfast in her belief that representation in the criminal justice system matters, Hannah volunteered as a magistrate for five years, prior to joining Policing.

She plans to use her role to advocate for the profession and collaborate with members to improve diversity within it; and to use her lived experience to drive improved awareness and ensure cultural sensitivity in police communication as it strives to better engage with under-represented communities.

Hannah was elected as a Vice Chair for APComm in January 2025.

Amy Nagy, Vice Chair

After graduating, Amy started her professional career as a broadcast journalist in commercial radio in Lincolnshire, before joining the BBC just across the border in South Yorkshire. Five years later, she hung up her microphone, joining South Yorkshire Police as a Communications Officer in 2018.

As well as working in a busy force press office, Amy was also district communications lead for Sheffield, leading the response to a number of high-profile firearms incidents in the city. Passionate about storytelling, she also worked closely with neighbourhood policing teams in some of the most deprived areas of Sheffield, going ‘behind the blue line’ and sharing the human side of policing with the public and the media.

Having been exposed to the world of counter terrorism during the course of her role at SYP, Amy joined Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters in October 2021. As Head of Media and Digital she oversees CTPHQ’s media relations strategy and sets the agenda for the organisation’s social media and digital channels, working closely with the Home Office and the UK Intelligence Community.

Amy was elected as a Vice Chair for APComm in January 2025.

Caroline Tozer, Vice Chair

Caroline Tozer is Head of Corporate Communications and Engagement at Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service, leading a joint team that delivers a full-service communications function.

She has led the team through significant change, both departmentally and organisationally. Her role has seen her lead the communications response during times of crisis and through high-profile investigations that have a significant impact on trust and confidence. 

Caroline is a CIPR qualified senior leader who has worked at both strategic and operational levels in a range of sectors, including local government, health and housing. Before moving into communications, Caroline was a broadcast journalist.

Prior to her current role, she was Head of Engagement and Policy for the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire, leading on all public facing activity and the development and delivery of the Commissioner’s police and crime plan.

She was first on the APComm executive committee between 2020-2022, before taking a year out in 2023 to have her little boy. She is honoured to have been elected by her peers into an APComm Vice Chair role again and looks forward to continuing to provide a voice for communications professionals across policing.

Lindsey Wyatt, Vice Chair

Lindsey has worked for West Yorkshire Police for the past 13 years, predominantly in her substantive communications officer role but also acting up on a number of occasions into the communications manager post.

Her communications officer role includes providing communications support and media handling for live incidents and investigations as part of a press office shift rota and on-call support out of hours. She currently has responsibility for Leeds District, the largest of West Yorkshire Police’s five districts. Her previous areas of responsibility have included safeguarding, operational support, Wakefield District and Professional Standards, where she led on the introduction of new processes for the publicity of criminal and misconduct investigations into police officers and staff.

Her policing communications career began as a Communications Assistant at Surrey Police before being promoted to Media Relations Officer at the same force a year later. Before that, she worked as a journalist on a weekly newspaper in Wales.

Lindsey was elected as a Vice Chair for APComm in January 2025.