Richard Taylor

Tag: Police

  • Youths Still Riding Scooters Dangerously in Arbury

    This scooter was being ridden dangerously through Arbury today. Earlier today a scooter screamed past me as I was cycling home. A older teen was driving and an apparently younger boy, without a helmet, was clinging onto the back. The passenger was highly animated and shouting. As the bike tore down Carlton Way; not excessively […]

  • Cambridge Dispersal Zone Renewed and Shrunk Without Discussion

    Red – Area of Current Dispersal Zone from 3 Jan 2010 Blue – Area of Previous Dispersal Zone to 3 Jan 2010 Note: East Road itself was excluded from the previous zone. View Via Google Maps On the 18th of January 2010 I attended Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources committee to ask about council […]

  • Reporting Cycle Crime at Cambridge Station

    The pannier rack was left hanging off my bike after I left it Cambridge station for the day. Last week I left my bike parked during the day at Cambridge station. As is regrettably necessary in this area of the city I had left it locked to a stand with a hefty D-Lock and had […]

  • Police Not Railings To Tackle Round Church Problems

    For the second time councillors rejected proposals to reinstate railings around the Round Church in Cambridge. At Cambridge City Council’s West-Central Area Committee on the 10th of December 2009 councillors rejected a proposal to contribute public funds to the reinstatement of the railings around the Round Church in central Cambridge. Councillors had rejected the idea […]

  • Jesus Green Association AGM 2009

    Repairing the path under the avenue of plane trees on Jesus Green is at last high up the city council’s list of priorities. On Thursday the 3rd of December 2009 I attended the Jesus Green Association’s Annual General Meeting. This was a public meeting, open to all, which had been advertised by email, on posters […]

  • Police Ought Focus More on Criminals and Less on Those Reporting Crime

    Cambridgeshire Police can’t cope with leaving questions on forms blank, even when they are irrelevant. I attended Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 12th of November 2009. During the policing agenda item members of the public are given the opportunity to ask questions of the police and make suggestions. Councillors then vote on […]

  • Will PCSOs Throughout Cambridge Wear Video Cameras?

    Earlier this evening I attended Cambridge’s South Area Committee in the British Legion Hall on Fisher Lane in Cherry Hinton. When the police attend area committee meetings the public are able to ask questions and make suggestions before councillors set the local policing priorities. I think this local democratic influence over policing is fantastic, but […]

  • Kevin Wilkins Replaces Ruth Joyce as FOI Lead on Cambs Police Authority

    Kevin Wilkins, Liberal Democrat County Councillor for West Chesterton in Cambridge, is the Police Authority’s new lead member on Freedom of Information. Unelected appointee Ruth Joyce was removed from her position as the police authority’s lead member for freedom of information during an authority meeting on the 30th of September 2009 . I have been […]

  • Addenbrookes Security Threatening People With Fixed Penalties

    A progress report on a trial involving security staff at Addenbrooke’s hospital being given police powers, including the ability to administer summary justice via fixed penalty tickets, was presented to Cambridgeshire Police Authority on the 30th of September 2009. It revealed that only “managers” had been given the powers and the powers had not been […]

  • Chief Constable Rants About Journalists and Her Own Officers As Police Authority Discuss State of Custody

    Cambridgeshire Police Authority discussed the “unsatisfactory custody provision” in the county at when they met on the 30th of September. On the 30th of September 2009 Cambridgeshire Police Authority discussed a report on “Safer Detention and Handling of Persons in Police Custody”. This was on the agenda following police custody in Cambridgeshire being condemned by […]