New Chapter Patron

Baroness Harris of Richmond has been involved in policing and security for 30 years. In this time she has been Chair of the North Yorkshire Police Authority, Deputy Chair of the Association of Police Authorities and a former member of the Service Authority National Crime Squad and Police Negotiating Board.

A former Justice of the Peace, Angela Harris is also Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, a member of the Court of the University of York and High Steward of Ripon Cathedral.


Angela Harris has acted as a former Party Chief Steward at Federal Conferences for the Liberal Democrats where her duties included ensuring conference security.


A Liberal Democrat Life Peer, she is a Deputy Spokesperson on Northern Ireland and member of the Home Affairs Team for policing matters. She is a Deputy Speaker of The House of Lords.

The President of the National Association of Chaplains to the Police, she is also a Patron of Lister House, a Royal British Legion residential home exclusively for ex-Service men and women and their dependants. Lister House also offers places for younger people who could benefit from their specialist care and rehabilitation facilities.


She is Patron and a passionate supporter of the National Victims’ Association (www.victimsfirst.co.uk), the UK’s largest and longest established specialist homicide support charity.

This interest in policing and security (as part of the wider police family) is one of the factors that led her to accept ASIS UK Chairman Mike Alexander’s invitation to become Chapter Patron. She feels that whilst there are clear and distinct dividing lines between the private security industry and police forces and that security officers must not replace or be mistaken for police officers, there are also areas where private security can be of help and support.

At this time when police budgets are under such pressure Baroness Harris is interested in those areas where private organisations can support and liaise with police forces and add to the totality of security in an area.


As Patron of the Chapter, Angela Harris looks forward to attending and speaking at ASIS Members’ Events and to hosting ASIS UK members at The House of Lords.

She will be speaking at the next ASIS Members’ Event on 18th March.