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| Awards for Excellence Yaser Mir
Yaser Mir is a senior lecturer in community engagement at the University of Central Lancashire, and lives in Newcastle-under-Lyme. He is a senior support worker with the Metropolitan police, working to facilitate deeper mutual understanding between the police and Muslim communities. Previously as a community engagement worker, he developed a number of health and social care projects focusing on drug prevention, going on to work with the Home Office on the same issue; during this time he worked with Muslim prisoners and prison staff, and played a key role in presenting the importance of faith-based approaches to tackling the issues of crime and drugs in Muslim communities.
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