Senior Policy and Partnerships Officer (representing Kate Green, Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner).
Adele Adjetey is a Senior Policy and Partnership Officer at Greater Manchester Combined Authority and has held the role since early 2020. Adele is primarily responsible for the Project Management of a Youth Endowment Fund/ Home Office funded programme, testing the fidelity of Focussed Deterrence as a solution to Serious Youth Violence. Adele’s other responsibilities include the Link Officer role for Wigan and supporting the GM Independent Police Ethics Committee.
Adele has previous experience of both the private sector and Local Authorities, notably her work on the Manchester Housing stock transfers to Southway Housing Trust and Eastlands Homes.
Kate Green
Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.
Kate Green was appointed as Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester with responsibility for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire in January 2023. From 2010 to 2022, she served as the Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston. While in parliament, Kate held a number of shadow ministerial posts, including Shadow Secretary of State for Education, and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, and served on the Justice, Home Affairs and Work and Pensions select committees, and the Public Accounts Committee.
Prior to her election to parliament, Kate was Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group and before that Director of the National Council for One Parent Families (now Gingerbread). She worked in the Home Office between 1997 and 2010 on community safety, criminal justice and police reform, with a focus on performance measurement.
Kate is a member of the board of governors at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a trustee of Manchester Camerata. She served as a magistrate for 16 years and has taken a particular interest in the experience of women in the penal system and how best to rehabilitate them to prevent reoffending.