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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Inconsistency On Cambridgeshire Police Restorative Justice Disposals Policy
The New Cambridgeshire Police Restorative Justice Page I observed the Cambridgeshire Police Authority Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday the 13th of December. I used the public speaking slot at the start of the meeting to ask about the force’s restorative justice policies. Following my use of the public speaking slot at the previous scrutiny committee meeting […]
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Cambridgeshire Police Getting Even Worse at Answering Phone
On Tuesday the 13th of December I observed Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Scrutiny Committee. The committee were told that Cambridgeshire Police are getting even worse at answering their phones. Deputy Chief Constable Feavyour brought Superintendent Fullwood, who is charge of the force control room, to appear before the committee. The committee were told the number of […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership December 2011
The Cambridge Community Safety Partnership proposes the city wide policing priorities for the city which are then approved (or not) by a full meeting of Cambridge City Council. The group comprises representatives of the City Council, Police, County Council, NHS, and Magistrates. I have submitted the following public questions for their forthcoming meeting: During the […]
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Appointment to Cambridgeshire’s Policing and Crime Scrutiny Committee
I have been appointed to the Cambridgeshire County Council committee responsible for scrutiny of policing and crime related matters in the county. The chairman of the committee, Cllr Steve Tierney, co-opted me onto the committee apparently as a result of the campaigning, lobbying, reporting and scrutiny which I have been doing on matters the committee […]