Richard Taylor

Tag: Police

  • Responding to Police Federation Calls for All Officers to be TASER Armed

    One of the major stories on BBC South East Today on the 26th of June 2012 was on the call by the Police Federation (which represents police officers) for all front-line police officers to be armed with TASER weapons. On the 25th of June 2012 the Police Federation released a letter they had written to […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority June 2012

    Full Police Authority Meeting 28 June 2012 A full meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority is to take place on the 28th of June 2012. I intend to seek to use the public speaking slot at the meeting to make a statement covering the following points: Was a secret, private, pre-meeting held before this public meeting? […]

  • Central Government Influencing Local Appointment of Chief Constables

    Home Office Header From One of the Released Documents This article is written by me, Richard Taylor, in an entirely personal capacity, and not as a WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer. On the 15th of September 2010 a document was sent by the UK Home Office to a request thread on mySociety’s Freedom of Information website WhatDoTheyKnow.com, the […]

  • Domestic Abuse Review

    Domestic Abuse Member Led Review On the 14th of June 2012 I observed the Police and Crime Scrutiny Committee at Cambridgeshire County Council consider the final report of Cllr Samantha Hoy’s Member Led Review on Domestic Violence. I previously commented on this review in December, when the review’s interim report was put before the committee. […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority Police and Crime Commissioner Briefing Event

    On the 18th of July 2012 Cambridgeshire Police Authority are to run a briefing session “about the current priorities of the Police Authority and how these are likely to affect the future working of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner”. The event is to be public, and open to all, but aimed at […]

  • Asking Cambs County Council Police Scrutiny Committee To Chase Cambs Police for Phone Answering Performance Data

    Police and Crime Scrutiny at Cambridgeshire County Council On Thursday the 14th of June 2012 I attended Cambridgeshire County Council’s Police and Crime Scrutiny Committee*. I used the public speaking slot to chase up information on Cambridgeshire Police’s phone answering performance. Cambridgeshire police’s competence at answering the phone in a reasonable period of time dropped […]

  • Partisan Bickering on the A14 Prompts Me to Comment

    The A14 Near Huntingdon Yesterday the Conservative Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, Nick Clarke, launched an attack on Cambridge MP Julian Huppert in a blog post titled “Julian Huppert please, please do not foul up our plans for a bigger road” in which he claimed Huppert is: trying to influence department for transport ministers to […]

  • Police Priority Setting for South West Peterborough in Orton Goldhay

    On the 13th of June 2012 I attended the meeting which set the local policing priorities for the “Peterborough South Team – West Neighbourhood” area. The Police.UK website describes the area as covering the Ortons area of Peterborough including Ferry Meadows Country Park and the East of England Showground. The meeting was not advertised on […]

  • The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012

    The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 (Draft) Twitter rumours suggested earlier this week that a draft of the rules for Police and Crime Commissioner elections had been “laid before parliament”. “Laid before parliament” is a counter-intuative and often misleading term which does not mean the document in question has necessarily been, or will […]

  • Questioning The Executive Councillor for Policing at Cambridge City Council

    Cllr Tim Bick, Executive Councillor for Policing, Cambridge City Council. On the 19th of April 2012 I used the public speaking slot at a full meeting of Cambridge City Council to ask the executive councillor for policing, Tim Bick (Liberal Democrat, Market) what he had been doing in that role. I said I thought the […]