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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel Annual Meeting 12 June 2013
On the 12th of July 2013 I observed Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel’s annual meeting. The only substantive item of business was a review of decisions made by the Police and Crime Commissioner. The meeting turned into a total farce as it emerged the panel was under the impression it was to scrutinise the decisions […]
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Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright Speaks in Cambridge
Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright made his first public speech in Cambridge at the West / Central Area Committee on the 10th of January 2013. I am here presenting the full video and transcript along with my comments. During the speech the commissioner announced new targets for: All non-emergency calls made via 101 […]
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Neighbourhood Police Officers in Cambridge to Routinely Carry TASER from January 2013
TASER armed officer in the UK Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 14th of December 2012 received a presentation on TASER use in Cambridge by Chief Inspector Neil Sloan of Cambridgeshire Police. To-date in Cambridge only specialist firearms officers have carried and used TASER weapons, no officers have routinely patrolled with the weapons, or carried […]
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Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright Meets Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel Members Behind Closed Doors
On the 21st of November I went to Huntingdon where a a meeting of Cambridgeshire’s Shadow Police and Crime Panel was scheduled to take place. A meeting paper gave the “title/purpose” of the meeting as “Meet the Commissioner”. The meeting was listed online as being “private”, however in my view it met the legal definition […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel Meeting in Secret
Police and Crime Panel Members Key Points Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel met for the first time, in shadow form, in secret, behind closed doors, on the 12th of September 2012. The panel is called a shadow panel until it formally becomes the Police and Crime Panel following election of Police and Crime Commissioners. The […]
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Cambridge Court Usher Defies Lord Chief Justice on Transparancy
Inside Cambridge Magistrates’ Court (source) In December 2011 the Lord Chief Justice reportedly said “Twitter as much as you wish”, when issuing Practice guidence on live, text-based forms of communications (including Twitter) from court for the purposes of fair and accurate reporting. However in practice it does not appear to be possible to routinely report […]
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Cambridge Councillors Deprioritise Police Enforcement of 20MPH Limits
Prominent 20 mph signage, and traffic slowing pinch point, in Saffron Walden Councillors at Cambridge’s West/Central Area Committee on the 23rd of August 2012 voted to drop enforcing the city centre’s 20mph speed limits as a police priority. A vote was held, and only two councillors, Whitebread and Nesthinga, supported retaining 20mph enforcement as a […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership – July 2012
I observed Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership meet on Tuesday the 31st of July 2012. The group sets, and monitors performance against, city wide police and crime priorities. It is designed to bring together the police, health service, elected representatives, council officers, magistrates and others including the business and voluntary sectors. It has a fund of […]
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Strategy and Resources Scrutiny – Cambridge City Council – July 2012
Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on Monday, 9th July 2012 at 17.00 Cambridge City Council is to hold a Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on Monday, 9th July 2012 at 17.00. The meeting is to cover a very broad range of subjects. I intend to seek to use the public speaking slot to make the […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership – May 2012
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 […]