On the first of May 2012 I attended a meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership, held in the Guildhall.
The meeting was rendered almost pointless by the absence of both elected councillors who should have been there, Cambridge City Council’s executive councillor for policing, Tim Bick (Liberal Democrat) and Police Authority representative and the partnership’s [...]
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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 role [...]
Student Hustings for Cambridge City Council Candidates
Conservative Candidate Andre Beaumont (Newham) Addresses the Student Hustings
On the 30th of April 2012 I observed a hustings run by the Cambridge University Students Union for candidates from the Castle, Market, Newnham and Queen Edith’s wards on Cambridge City Council (wards selected for their large Cambridge University student populations).
The event had been advertised via [...]
Policing West-Central Cambridge April 2012
Poorly located 20 mph signs on entering Maid’s Causeway.
On Thursday the 26th of April 2012 I observed Cambridge City Council’s West/Central area committee hold the police to account on their recent performance and set the new policing priorities for the area.
One of the key items under discussion was the operation of the 20 [...]
Asking to Film and Ask Public Questions at Cambridge City Council
I have submitted the following message to the council’s democratic services email address, copying Councillor Tim Bick:
1. If a suitably less restrictive filming policy is adopted during the Thursday 19th April 2012 full council meeting I would like to film/photograph the council meeting from the point the new policy is adopted. I’d like [...]
Police Endorse Cambridge Labour’s Wet Room for Drunks Policy
On the evening of the 12th of April 2012 I observed councillors on Cambridge’s East Area Committee set the areas’s policing priorities for the upcoming four months. Problems caused by street drinkers were by far the top issue raised by councillors.
Sergeant Jamie Stenton for Cambridgeshire Police initially reported:
“Street life people [his words] are [...]
Cambridge City Council Election Candidates May 2012
Only Sign of Elections in Arbury - Posters for Labour’s Mike Todd-Jones.
Cambridge City Council elections are to be held on Thursday the 3rd of May 2012.
Cambridge is split into fourteen wards, there are three council seats for each ward. The elections in May are for one seat in each ward, so a [...]
Friends of Midsummer Common 2012 AGM
Given its heavy use by cyclists and pedestrians this path across the common is a little narrow.
On March the 14th 2012 I attended the Friends of Midsummer Common’s Annual General Meeting. I am not a member of the group, but the meeting was open to the public. It was advertised in the Cambridge News and [...]
LibDems to Consider Regime To Limit Freedom of Movement in Cambridge
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Later today Cambridge’s West Central Area Committee will consider a proposal from Cambridgeshire Police to introduce a “dispersal zone” under S30 of New Labour’s Antisocial Behaviour Act into part of the city centre. If approved PCSOs would be able to order two or more people to separate, and/or leave the area, if [...]
PCSOs Lack Powers to Enforce 20mph Limits
Prominent 20 mph signage, and traffic slowing pinch point, in Saffron Walden
It was well after midnight when Cambridge City Council’s Full Council, which had started on Thursday the 23rd of February 2011, reached a motion on enforcement of 20mph speed limits in the city.
The motion was proposed by Cllr Tim Bick, who is the [...]