Richard Taylor

Tag: Police

  • Cambridge University Student Takes Police Bait Bike from City Centre

    Update 6 November 2014: “This article is not related to the Scientist Dr Andrew Lewis who matriculated at St Catharines in 2004” Cambridge University student, Andrew “Lewi” Lewis, of St. Catherine’s College has today posted an account on the internet about what happened when he took a cycle, which he now believes to be a […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority February 2009

    I went to observe a meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority on Wednesday the 18th of February 2009. The agenda for the meeting had only been made publicly available on Monday the 15th, after the suggested deadline for members of the public submitting questions. When I questioned the late publication of the agenda by email in […]

  • Openess and Accessibility of Cambridgeshire Police Authority

    Dr Dorothy Gregson has moved from her previous position of Director of Public Health at Cambridge City Primary Care Trust to become the Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Police Authority. Her first regular Police Authority meeting is scheduled for Wednesday the 18th February 2009, and she doesn’t appear to be getting off to a great start […]

  • The Role of Police Authorities in Decisions to Extend TASER Deployment

    Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday the 28th of January 2009, Vernon Coaker the Home Office Minister of State for Policing, Crime & Security spoke on the expanded deployment of TASER: With regard to Taser training, the roll out of Tasers has been widely welcomed as a good thing. The training costs will […]

  • Policing Arbury Ward – Cambridge – January 2009

    I attended an Arbury Ward police meeting on the 28th of January 2009 in the Meadows Community Centre. Attendance The session was led by Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) Luke Upcott and Sam Bagshaw. Labour Councillor for Arbury Mike Todd-Jones was present, and in addition six residents had turned up. I think the fact the […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Not to Prosecute In Case of Rottweiller Seriously Injuring Cambridge Postman

    Since the day of the awful attack on a postman by dangerous rottweilers in Gazeley Lane, Trumpington, Cambridge in December 2008 the police have been hung up on the issue of weather the attack occurred on a public road or not. At first the police said they were investigating if the attack was on a […]

  • Policing West and Central Cambridge – January 2009

    I attended Cambridge City Council’s West Central Area Committee on the 8th of January 2009. One of the main items on the agenda was “Safer Neighborhoods”, the meeting’s chair was almost tripped up by the cryptic title and had to ask the committee manager what the policing item was called saying: “Is it Safer Communities?”. […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority – December 2008

    I attended Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s meeting on the 17th of December 2008, items discussed below include: TASERs Public Speaking Police Powers for Security Guards Common Assessment Framework Treasury Management Collaboration Other Items TASERs Following the Home Secretary’s announcement on the 24th of November that all the UK’s response police are to be issued TASER weapons […]

  • Police to Wear Cameras in Cambridge

    It has been reported that from Monday the 22nd of December 2008 Police in Cambridge will start wearing video cameras. My initial reaction to this was to ask why the public have not been told about this proposed development. Why has it not been before Area Committees where members of the public and councillors would […]

  • Addenbrooke’s Staff to get Police Powers

    A report to tomorrow’s Cambridgeshire Police Authority meeting states that uniformed staff at Addenbrookes are to be given police powers as part of a trial scheme to be run between March and September 2009. Presumably this means their security and parking staff rather than nurses. These staff will wear badges, which the public are supposed […]