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Zeichner Calls for PCSOs to Act on Bike Offences
This week Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner has been calling for more powers to be given to PCSOs in Cambridge. Mr Zeichner particularly wants PCSOs to be used to clamp down on illegal cycling. I agree with Mr Zeichner in so far as there is a lot of dangerous and illegal cycling […]
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Advertising the August North Area Committee Meeting
At the last meeting of the North Area Committee, I and other members of the public present agreed to try and publicise the next meeting better. I have been lobbying the city council, police and police authority to try and get them to do their bit to advertise it, and I have also produced the […]
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Police Consulatative Meeting – Arbury Ward
I have just returned from a police consultative meeting at the Meadows Community Centre, the meeting was publicised as being to discuss Anti-Social Behaviour in the ward of Arbury. No council officers attended, apparently due to them being on strike, although the national council worker’s strike doesn’t start until tomorrow. About 14 members of the […]
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Stop and Account – Compliance with PACE codes in Cambridge
David Howarth (MP for Cambridge), In April 2008 the police in Cambridge decided to abolish the stop and account / encounter form. I am writing to you now as I have today received confirmation from Detective Superintendent Jeff Hill of Cambridgeshire police that in abolishing the stop and account form in Cambridge the police have […]
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Stop and Account – Cambridge Police Confirm They Ignore PACE Code A
I have today received the below response to some of my questions relating to the operation of stop and account / encounter procedures in Cambridge. The officer in charge of stop and account in Cambridgeshire has confirmed in the email reproduced below that Cambridgeshire Police are ignoring PACE Code A with respect to the procedure […]
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City Wide Police Priorities in Cambridge
At the April 2008 North Area Committee meeting councillors removed burglary as a police priority, a decision which baffled me given the fact the Police reported to that meeting that burglary in the North Area: “remains high when compared to other areas of the City”. Councillors Nimmo-Smith and Pitt justified the committee’s decision when when […]
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Improving the Mechanism for Setting Police Priorities in Cambridge
I met with John Fuller, Community Engagement Officer, Cambridgeshire Police and Paul Griffin Strategy Officer (Community Safety) of Cambridge City Council at the Council offices on Regent Street in Cambridge this afternoon. This meeting was idea of the chair of North Area Committee meeting, who decided to ask me to attend it as a response […]
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Police Uniforms
Andy Harper’s morning show on BBC Radio Cambridge was discussing police uniforms this morning, with some listeners getting in touch complaining about scruffy police. I joined in the discussion: “One of our local policemen already gets himself dressed up like robocop with his tac-vest, armor, CS gas, baton, water bottle, three mobiles all flashing away […]
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June 2008 North Area Committee – Cambridge
I attended the 19th June 2008 North Area Committee meeting tonight. I think the interesting decisions made were: 1. To demand from officers a better minuting of the element of the previous meeting where police priorities were set. ` 2. To set a fixed time 19.30 for the policing agenda item at the next meeting, […]
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Minutes of the East Chesterton ASB Meeting
Following a public meeting with the police on Anti-Social behaviour in East Chesterton, Cambridge on the 2nd of April 2008 I requested a copy of the minutes from the council’s ASB section – they invited attendees to do this at the meeting. Two months after my original request, and following a number of emails to […]