Richard Taylor

Tag: Police

  • Councillors Ask Police to Record Frame Numbers of Recovered Bikes

    My bike locked up in Cambridge. At Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area committee on Thursday the 5th of January 2012 Cambridgeshire Police reported that they had a number of unclaimed bikes at Parkside police station which they had recovered from cycle thieves. During the policing agenda item at the West/Central area committee members of the […]

  • 120 Non-Firearms Officers to be TASER Trained in Cambridgeshire

    TASER armed officer in the UK Further details of Cambridgeshire Police’s plans to expand TASER deployment have been published. The Chief Constable intends to train one hundred and twenty non-firearms officers to use the weapons. That’s just over one in ten of the force’s 1011 constables. A paper from Cambridgeshire Police’s Chief Constable to Cambridgeshire […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Authority December 2011

    I observed Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s full meeting on the 20th of December 2011. Riots The Deputy Chief Constable noted the two reports which have been published this week on the causes of the riots: The rules of engagement: A review of the August 2011 disorders – HMIC. Report-Policing Large Scale Disorder: lessons from the disturbances […]

  • Cambridge Community Safety Partnership December 2011

    I observed the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership meeting on the 14th of December 2011. Priorities On of the key roles of the Community Safety Partnership is set the city wide crime and policing priorities for the City of Cambridge. The group came under criticism last year for carrying out this key role in secret, via […]

  • Cambridgeshire County Council Police Crime and Libraries Scrutiny December 2011

    Committee Room Before Kick-Off Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011. The chairman, Cllr Tierney, had invited me to join the committee as a co-optee as I have commented extensively on police and crime related matters, which formed the bulk of the agenda. […]

  • Scrutiny of Operation Redesign

    The Chief Constable’s December 2010 Report to Cambridgeshire Police Authority Introducing Operation Redesign. Two representatives of Cambridgeshire Police attended Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011 to make a presentation and take questions on Operation Redesign. Operation Redesign is Chief Constable Simon Parr’s approach […]

  • Allowing Benefits to be Arranged From Prison Could Cut Reoffending

    One of the key problems believed to contribute to re-offending is that prisoners are released with just £46, and as they are not able to arrange benefits while within prison, some have little option but to return, if not to crime, to their criminal friends. This is something Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert has raised in […]

  • Cambridgeshire County Council Urged to Spend More on Domestic Abuse

    Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011 recommended that Cambridgeshire County Council’s cabinet ought expand the resources devoted to addressing domestic abuse within the council’s Community Engagement Directorate. The committee heard, for the first time, that Domestic Violence support is currently limited to those […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Propose More TASER Trained Officers

    TASER armed officer on duty outside a pasty shop in Padstow, Cornwall. TASER use by Cambridgeshire police is currently restricted to their Tactical Firearms Unit. I support this as I am concerned that having officers routinely armed with TASER will damage the relationship between the police and the public and will lead to an escalation […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel

    Cllr Mac McGuire (Conservative) has presented his proposal for the make up of the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel. The make-up of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel was discussed on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011 by both the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee. […]