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All UK Front Line Response Police to Carry TASERs
Hidden behind today’s big news of a pre-budget report which could determine the future economic prosperity of the country is an announcement from the Home Secretary that all the UK’s 30,000 front-line response officers will soon be carrying TASER weapons. This was reported in an article on the front page of the Sunday Times headlined […]
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Opposing More UK Police being Armed with TASERs
Dear David Howarth (Cambridge MP), I am writing to you following the arming of non-firearms police with TASER electroshock weapons in the UK as part of a year long trial which started on 1st September 2007. (1) I support police firearms units having access to TASER weapons which they can elect to use as an […]
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Richard Taylor Asks Labour’s Dave Baigent About What He’d Do as Police and Crime Commissioner
At a Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel meeting on the 16th of March 2016 Dave Baigent, the Labour candidate to be Police and Crime Commissioner, offered to speak to me on camera. I’m publishing the full unedited video of our unprepared, impromptu, discussion along with a transcript. Notable Points Labour’s Dave Baigent has been caught […]
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Ten Suggested Items for Scrutiny by Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel
Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel is responsible for scrutinising the actions and decisions of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner. On the basis of its scrutiny the panel can then make public recommendations to the Police and Crime Commissioner. At the February 2014 meeting of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel I sought to use the public […]
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Volunteering to be a Member of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel Again
On Friday I volunteered to become a member of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel. I volunteered previously, in October 2012. One of those appointed by the panel in 2012 didn’t attend any meetings of the panel for over a year, and didn’t respond to correspondence from the panel. Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel appeared quite […]
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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 […]
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Suggesting Questions to Julian Huppert for Police and Crime Commissioner Bright at the Home Affairs Select Committee
Julian Huppert MP, I have noticed our Police and Crime Commissioner, Graham Bright, is due to appear in front of you and other MPs at the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday the 26th of November 2013. I would like to share some ideas for questions, which I think are both firmly […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership October 2013
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership met on the 29th of October 2013. The most notable thing in my view was the complete absence of any elected representatives. Cambridge has 56 councillors (42 City and 14 County) but none attended this key meeting at which the police, and other bodies, report their performance agains the city wide […]
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Police Collaboration on Statements Provided to Duggan Inquest
An inquest is currently underway in relation to the death of Mark Duggan who was shot and killed by police in London on the 4th of August 2011. The police evidence raises questions about how officers prepare statements for inquests, court appearances, and investigations by others such as the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The inquest […]