Richard Taylor

Tag: Police and Crime Commissioners

  • Debating UK Police TASER use on BBC Radio Wales

    On the 24th of September 2012 I went on BBC Radio Wales to argue against the arming of all front-line police in the UK with TASER weapons. The decision on arming the police with TASER on a routine basis is one for society as a whole, and not just for the police. It’s a decision […]

  • Graham Bright

    Graham Bright (Source) On the evening of Friday the 7th of September 2012 Cambridgeshire Conservatives held an event at which they had a second go at selecting a candidate for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner. They were trying again as the person they had previously selected in a postal ballot of their membership, […]

  • Policing Cambourne – Caldecote – Comberton – Granchester – Hardwick – Madingley – August 2012

    Neighbourhood Panel Meeting Here Tonight Sign Outside SCDC HQ On the evening of Wednesday the 22nd of August 2012 I observed local policing priorities for the Cambourne area being set at a meeting held in the South Cambridgeshire District Council offices. The Cambourne area covers Barton, Bourn, Caldecote, Cambourne, Caxton, Comberton, Coton, Croxton, Eltisley, Granchester, […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Phone Answering Failures Continue

    Cambridgeshire Police’s continued, now long-standing, failure to answer their phones in a reasonable time was one of the top items raised at Ely’s “Neighbourhood Panel meeting” on the 18th of July 2012. I attended and observed the meeting. A number of members of the public present raised problems they, and others, had experienced when calling […]

  • Police Authority Treasurer Hummersone Sill Paid Off-Payroll

    Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Deputy Chief Executive and Treasurer, John Hummersone I used the public question slot at Cambridgeshire Police Authority on the 28th of June 2012 to ask the following: Is the authority’s Deputy Chief Executive and Treasurer, John Hummersone, still paid “fees” via “Hummersone Consulting (Sole Trader)”? What are the reasons for this arrangement? […]

  • Central Government Influencing Local Appointment of Chief Constables

    Home Office Header From One of the Released Documents This article is written by me, Richard Taylor, in an entirely personal capacity, and not as a WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer. On the 15th of September 2010 a document was sent by the UK Home Office to a request thread on mySociety’s Freedom of Information website WhatDoTheyKnow.com, the […]

  • Domestic Abuse Review

    Domestic Abuse Member Led Review On the 14th of June 2012 I observed the Police and Crime Scrutiny Committee at Cambridgeshire County Council consider the final report of Cllr Samantha Hoy’s Member Led Review on Domestic Violence. I previously commented on this review in December, when the review’s interim report was put before the committee. […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority Police and Crime Commissioner Briefing Event

    On the 18th of July 2012 Cambridgeshire Police Authority are to run a briefing session “about the current priorities of the Police Authority and how these are likely to affect the future working of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner”. The event is to be public, and open to all, but aimed at […]

  • The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012

    The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (Draft) Twitter rumours suggested earlier this week that a draft of the rules for Police and Crime Commissioner elections had been “laid before parliament”. “Laid before parliament” is a counter-intuative and often misleading term which does not mean the document in question has necessarily been, or will […]

  • Questioning The Executive Councillor for Policing at Cambridge City Council

    Cllr Tim Bick, Executive Councillor for Policing, Cambridge City Council. On the 19th of April 2012 I used the public speaking slot at a full meeting of Cambridge City Council to ask the executive councillor for policing, Tim Bick (Liberal Democrat, Market) what he had been doing in that role. I said I thought the […]