Richard Taylor

Tag: Police

  • Speed Awareness Courses

    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 am aware that Cambridgeshire does not offer speed awareness courses, but they are run elsewhere in the UK (and I, like many residents […]

  • Police Using their Notebooks

    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: While a juror I was disappointed by two officers, both relatively senior had not made notes of important events, which was problematic when they […]

  • Police powers with respect to mini-motos.

    Dear Cllr James and The Council’s Anti Social Behaviour Section, I have been appalled by the Police’s lack of action against people misusing motorbikes etc., riding them dangerously eg. with small kids on the back without helmets, and riding them on footpaths etc. PCSO David Jackson told the inaugural Open Meeting of the Friends of […]

  • Opposing More UK Police being Armed with TASERs

    Dear David Howarth (Cambridge MP), I am writing to you following the arming of non-firearms police with TASER electroshock weapons in the UK as part of a year long trial which started on 1st September 2007. (1) I support police firearms units having access to TASER weapons which they can elect to use as an […]

  • UK failing Asian girls vulnerable to “honour crime”

    David Howarth (Cambridge MP), I was listening to “File on Four” on Radio Four on Sunday afternoon. It was about “Honour Crime” against British Asian/Muslim women and girls in Britain, what I heard shocked and appalled me and has driven me to write to you. The programme revealed that the UK state (Police and Education […]

  • Council Scrutiny of Dispersal Zones

    Dear Councillor Ward, In response to the Police priorities section of Wednesday’s North Area Committee Meeting, I asked the councillors if they were happy with the process for introducing dispersal zones in the City. I noted that the council leader appeared to be authorising these police powers without routinely seeking input from other councillors at […]

  • Scrutiny of Dispersal Zone Designations in Cambridge

    Councillor Bruce, I am writing to you as I believe you are the Chair of the Strategy Scrutiny Committee. Can you let me know if the Council Leader’s decision to make an area of Cambridge including Mill Road, Parker’s Piece, Christ’s Pieces, Midsummer Common, Brunswick Gardens and Riverside a designated area under Section 30 Subsections […]

  • Part 3 of RIPA – A Step Towards Lawlessness

    I wrote the below letter to my MP because I oppose laws which potentially criminalise vast swathes of people, leaving open the possibility for the Police to selectively enforce the law. A society where everybody routinely breaks, or is unable to comply with the law and the state enforces the law arbitrarily is in my […]