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Dispersal Orders and Ecops Operation in Cambridge
To: Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority. At the Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee on the 28th of February Sgt. Cross of the Police reported problems with the operation of dispersal zone which includes Mill Road in […]
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Stop and Account in Cambridge
I believe the “stop and account” form used by the police isn’t working and in my view is damaging to the relationship between the public and the police. The way the form is used affects the nature of an encounter between the police and a member of the public. I attended a local community meeting, […]
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Setting Local Police Priorities
To: City Councillors Downham, Levy and Armstrong and relevant council officers, I have tonight attended a “anti-social behavior meeting for the Arbury”, at which I was able to ask the Police, who were represented by PCSO Rob Streater where the Police priorities for the North Area were set, where the Neighbourhood Panel Meeting for the […]
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Local Police Priorities in North Cambridge
Alastair Roberts (Cambridge City Council Officer), I am writing to you as you are given as the contact for the “North Area Neighbourhood Policing” agenda item for the North Area Committee meeting held on the 20th of January. At that meeting I witnessed the councillors voting unanimously to support, unamended, the recommendations for police priorities […]
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Taking Photographs of Anti-Social Behaviour
I have taken photographs from my front room of dangerous and illegal scooter / mini-moto / motorbike use on the road outside my house. Apparently someone complained about me doing this to the police, and I was interviewed aggressively for more than half an hour, and received two follow up visits from the police. On […]
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Police Public Consultations in Cambridge
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007. I have not found it easy to find out about appropriate ways to raise my concerns with the police. I looked for community meetings […]
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Operation Cyclone – Cambridge
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007. I don’t like Cambridge police’s recent operation stopping cyclists in the city centre, I’m in favour for dealing with dangerous illegal cycling, though I […]
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Congestion Charge Privacy
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007. A congestion charge system for Cambridge is being proposed. The plans released in local papers involve cameras throughout Cambridge, and on vans which will […]
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Dispersal Zones In Cambridge
I wrote the below to Kevin Wilkins (County Councillor and Police Authority member with a specialisation in Cambridge City) and Olive Main, Independent Member of the Police Authority in October 2007: In Cambridge dispersal zones are in my view used in areas they shouldn’t be. Do we really need to use new laws to deal […]
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Stop and Account
I was stopped and asked to account for my actions by a police officer last year. During that encounter with the police I feel that I was misled by the officer who suggested that I had to give him my name and address. Police stopping people, asking them to account for their actions and then […]