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North Cambridge Police Priorities – May 2011
“North Area Profile May 2011 On the evening of the 19th of May 2011 City and County Councillors from North Cambridge will get the opportunity to vote on the area’s local policing priorities for the next three months or so. Councillors’ deliberations and decisions will follow a presentation from the police and a session where […]
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Speaking at Cambridge City Council on the City Wide Police Priorities
On Thursday the 7th of April Cambridge City Council’s full council debated and approved new city wide police priorities. All Liberal Democrats and most Labour councillors voted to drop burglary, robbery and cycle theft from the priorities and approved new priorities of: Alcohol-related violent crime in the city centre Repeat victims of domestic violence Repeat […]
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Policing East Cambridge April 2011
Policing East Cambridge April 2011 I spent the evening of the 14th of April 2011 observing Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee meeting. City and county councillors were to hold the police to account for their performance against priorities they’d set previously and to set new priorities for the forthcoming period. Key Points Councillors set […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership March 2011
I observed a meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 11th of March 2011. The group sets the city wide policing priorities and holds the police to account for their performance against the priorities set. At the partnership’s February meeting I complained that it had taken the key decision of selecting the priorities for […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership February 2011
On the 3rd of February 2011 I attended a meeting of the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership. The body sets and monitors the city wide police priorities for Cambridge. Public Questions Openness I submitted two public questions. The first was: The North Area Committee was told last week that the partnership had agreed its priorities for […]
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Mass Ejection from Public Gallery at Cambridge City Council Meeting
On Thursday the 17th of February I went to the Guildhall in Cambridge to observe a full meeting of Cambridge City Council. On arrival I found the main doors to the building closed and locked. This isn’t usually the case when there is a full council meeting. There was no indication anything was going on […]
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Police Ask Twitter to Determine Fate of Arrested Individuals
Earlier this month a police officer (@SgtSidJames) who calls himself the “Sheriff of East Park” in Wolverhampton tweeted about the fact he’d arrested three people for damaging a community centre, damage which he reported disgusted the centre users. I was shocked by what came next; he urged those reading his tweets to: “Let me know […]
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Prodding the Home Office to Resume Publishing Statistics on TASER use by the Police
Statistics on the use of TASER weapons by the UK police used to be published quarterly by the Home Office. This routine pro-active publication has stopped and the latest published data available at the time of writing is from September 2009*; it is well over a year old. I have been chasing the Home Office […]
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Revelations Made and Questions Raised at the Home Affairs Select Committee TASER Session
On the 7th of December Cambridge MP Julian Huppert and his fellow members of the Home Affairs Select Committee held a session on the police use of TASER weapons. I wrote an article prior to the meeting in which I suggested a number of questions it might be worth asking of the Chief Police Officers […]