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Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright Meets Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel Members Behind Closed Doors
On the 21st of November I went to Huntingdon where a a meeting of Cambridgeshire’s Shadow Police and Crime Panel was scheduled to take place. A meeting paper gave the “title/purpose” of the meeting as “Meet the Commissioner”. The meeting was listed online as being “private”, however in my view it met the legal definition […]
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Commissioner Bright Misses First Public Police Priority Setting Meeting Following Election
A sign like this was outside Longstanton Golf Club however it was too dark to read it, never mind take a photo. On Tuesday the 20th of November 2012 I attended the Swavesey police priority setting meeting. As the first local police priority setting meeting since the election of Graham Bright as Cambridgeshire’s Police and […]
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Cambs Police and Crime Commissioner Bright Dodges TASER Questions
When Cambridge’s newly elected Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright was asked to comment on Cambridgeshire Police Force’s use of TASER weapons by the Cambridge-News he responded: Tasers are an operational matter and I cannot interfere in operational matters. My view is that TASER policies; such as if they ought be routinely carried by front-line […]
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Commissioner Bright’s Priorities: 1. Anti-Social Behaviour 2. Catching Criminals
Tom Horn of Heart Radio in Cambridgeshire was given one of the first interviews with newly elected Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright. Graham Bright was asked about his priorities. His response was that the first was “anti-social behaviour”, with “catching criminals” only coming in at number two. Asked: “what are your priorities for Cambridgeshire” […]
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Labour’s Ed Murphy Wins Police and Crime Commissioner Election in Peterborough
Conservative Graham Bright was Elected Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner with just 3.96% of the electorate across Cambridgeshire making him their first choice. Labour’s Ed Murphy however won comfortably in the cities of both Peterborough and Cambridge. The first preference results for Peterborough were as follows: Name Party/Independent Votes Percentage Ed Murphy Labour 5282 23.22% […]
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Cllr Shona Johnstone as Cambridgeshire’s Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner?
Cambridgeshire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright’s election, albeit with just 3.96% of the electorate making him their first choice, gives him a huge amount of patronage. Mr Bright is free to spend as much as he likes on staff he appoints to his personal office and on salaries, expenses and allowances for “deputies”. […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner Bright – First Speech
Following the announcement of the result of the election, Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner elect, Graham Bright, gave a short speech. I filmed it and have produced a transcript: Thank you Mr Returning Officer. And can I thank everyone? This has been an unusual election. Having an election in November is not the very best […]
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Misplaced comments
I’ve created this article specifically to move the below comments to (rather than delete them); they were previously posted on my CV; I left them there for around two years. I’ve backdated it to the date of the comment. I made the move on 13 August 2014.
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Local Police Priority Setting in Cambridge With Tory Graham Bright as Police and Crime Commissioner
On Saturday the 10th of November 2012 I spotted a tweet from Timothy Barnes of Stevenage saying he would be outside Cambridge’s Guildhall with the Tory Police and Crime Commissioner Candidate for Cambridge, Graham Bright. Later Graham Bright’s twitter account emitted a message saying “Pop along if you want to have a chat”; I saw […]
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Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM 2012
On Tuesday the 6th of November 2012 I observed the Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM. Helmets and High Visibility Clothing The meeting passed a motion allowing the campaign to reserve the right to decline to promote events where the use of helmets and high visibility clothing is required or implied to be required. The motion was […]