Richard Taylor

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  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Serious Crime

    Police and Crime Commissioners will need to ensure that appropriate resources are made available to tackling serious crime. To often it appears that our society is harsher on an individual who steals a chocolate bar than it is on someone who has stolen millions, I think that needs to change. As with other less visible […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Commissioners’ National Role

    Police and Crime Commissioners will have an important role ensuring that national bodies, particularly the new National Crime Agency provide the services the need to help them achieve their local objectives. Commissioners will have a leadership and scrutiny role nationally as well as locally. Police and Crime Commissioners will also I suspect find themselves lobbying […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Cycling

    My bike locked up in Cambridge. A Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire needs to ensure that the roads are safe for all users, particularly cyclists. A commissioner ought take a role in ensuring that new developments are cycle friendly and that our existing infrastructure is adapted to reflect the changes which accompany the expansion […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – A14

    The A14 Near Huntingdon The A14 is currently road on which far too many people are being killed and injured. Congestion and incidents result in travel times being inconsistent which has an impact on the region’s economy. A Police and Crime Commissioner should, along with the region’s other elected representatives, make it an urgent priority […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Addiction

    Seized Cannabis at Ely Police Station Open Day Individuals suffering from addiction are responsible for a significant amount of crime; those with problematic addictions impose substantial costs on society as a whole. I have been closely following the debate on our country’s policies on drug abuse which are the subject of a current inquiry by […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – The Police-Public Relationship

    UK Police Officer armed with TASER Policing by consent rather than policing by force is one of the defining elements of UK policing and something which must be retained and protected. A good relationship between the police and the public is essential as without it the country would be impossible to police. I am very […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Equality

    Cambridgeshire Police Stop and Search Form I think it is desirable for a Police and Crime Commissioner, and indeed anyone holding public office, to make a clear that they want to see everyone treated equally by the state irrespective of factors such as race or age when those factors are irrelevant. Too often I think […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Office of Constable as the Foundation of Policing

    The office of constable is, and in my view should remain, the foundation of policing in the UK. I think it’s important that we support constables and give them the resources and freedom they need to fulfill their role while ensuring that there are safeguards in place to ensure the immense power and responsibility delegated […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Education

    Education is key to enabling people to make well informed decisions and ensuring that, particularly young people, know, for example, the consequences of dangerous and reckless driving; or where drug abuse could lead. I think it is important that credible people with real life experience about things such as the consequences of road accidents visit […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Local Democratic Priority Setting and Accountability

    Sgt Wragg of the police with councillors at the Cambridge North Area Committee Elected councillors should set local police and crime priorities and hold their local police and other agencies to account for their performance against them. Priorities should be set after councillors have heard from those with an interest in policing the area. Evidence […]