Richard Taylor

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  • Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright Pulls Out of North Area Committee Appearance

    Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright was due to attend the Cambridge North Area Committee on the 56th of February 2014. As of the time of writing, the evening before the meeting, the agenda lists item seven as: Police and Crime Commissioner: Sir Graham Bright – 8.30pm Presentation followed by an opportunity for public […]

  • Public Participation at Cambs Police and Crime Panel – 5 February 2014

    Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright I have submitted the following in advance of the “public participation” slot at the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel meeting scheduled for 14.00 on Wednesday the 5th of February 2014. Reporting of Decisions The Police and Crime Commissioner repeatedly assures the panel he is reporting all decisions he […]

  • Three Day Week for Cambs Police and Crime Commissioner Bright

    Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright is only working a three day week. Graham Bright’s Diary was released following a Freedom of Information request by Paul Lythgoe. The released material appears to show Graham Bright is asking his staff not to schedule events during two weekdays each week. In the week commencing the 9th […]

  • GPs Withhold Ambulance Service Funding Due to Lack of Plan to Improve Response Times

    Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group is currently withholding 2% of the money it usually pays each month to the East of England Ambulance Service. The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is a group of local GPs and others which is responsible for buying the region’s ambulance service from the ambulance service. Withholding 2% of the […]

  • Draconian Rules Restrict Reporting From Clinical Commissioning Group Meetings

    Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group is to meet in Cambridge’s Masonic Lodge (pictured) on Tuesday the 7th of January 2014 (Meeting papers) It appears to me that certainly filming, and probably also tweeting, taking notes on a laptop, or even possessing a mobile phone in a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meeting […]

  • Lack of Transparency from IPCC On Police and Crime Commissioner Complaints

    Police and Crime Panels must refer any complaints made about conduct by a Police and Crime Commissioner which constitutes or involves, or appears to constitute or involve, the commission of a criminal offence to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). The IPCC has recently revealed, in response to a Freedom of Information request I made, […]

  • Cambridgeshire Councillor Buys His Own Speed Camera

    Councillor Michael Shellens (Liberal Democrat, Godmanchester and Huntingdon East) told Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the 19th of December 2013 that he has bought his own speed camera. Councillors were responding to a public question on parish councils and the ‘speed watch’ scheme which sees volunteers using speed […]

  • Councillors Told Police and Crime Commissioner Has Taken on Four Deputies

    At Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the 19th of December 2013 Councillor Roger Henson (UKIP, Norman Cross) told councillors: I had an email. I can’t find it. I tried to find it at the office down here [indicates]. That the police commissioner has now took on four deputies. […]

  • Cambs Police and Crime Commissioner Costing More Than Police Authority

    Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright has released details of how much he has spent running his office in his first year. The commissioner spent the astronomical sum of: £885,312.99 on his office between November 2012 and November 2013. This figure was not pro-actively released by the commissioner, but obtained via a Freedom of […]

  • New Path Under Jesus Green Plane Tree Avenue

    I observed the Annual General Meeting of the Jesus Green Association on the 3rd of December 2013 where detailed plans for a new path under the plane tree avenue on Jesus Green were revealed. The detailed plans were not presented to the last West/Central Area committee, nor are they linked from a webpage on a […]