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Commissioner Bright Misses First Public Police Priority Setting Meeting Following Election
A sign like this was outside Longstanton Golf Club however it was too dark to read it, never mind take a photo. On Tuesday the 20th of November 2012 I attended the Swavesey police priority setting meeting. As the first local police priority setting meeting since the election of Graham Bright as Cambridgeshire’s Police and […]
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Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM 2012
On Tuesday the 6th of November 2012 I observed the Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM. Helmets and High Visibility Clothing The meeting passed a motion allowing the campaign to reserve the right to decline to promote events where the use of helmets and high visibility clothing is required or implied to be required. The motion was […]
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Councillors Say Ombudsman Ought Strike Down Unfair Parking Permit System in Cambridge
Cambridge’s bizarre, unfair and unclear rules on parking permit eligibility might now be shaken up following a public question from resident Emma Chin raised during the open forum section of the West Central Area Committee on the 1st of November 2012. One problem is that some properties on a street have become ineligible for parking […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel – Volunteering to Join
On the 26th of October 2012 I submitted an application to become one of the two independent, non councillor, members of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel. I am making the application, and covering email, which I submitted available publicly below. Dear Sarah Swift, I am writing to volunteer to serve as one of the non-councillor […]
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Policing Histon, Milton, Impington, Cottenham, Oakington and Waterbeach – October 2012
On the 9th of October 2012 I attended the police priority setting meeting for the area covering Histon, Impington, Cottenham, Milton, Chittering, Oakington and Waterbeach. The priorities were not set by democratically elected representatives, but by mob rule, anyone who turned up would have been given a vote. A number of councillors were present, but […]
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Cyclists Branded Anti-Social For Trying to Stay Alive
Arrows highlight the only remnants of markings showing this is the start of a shared use cycle/pedestrian path. On Thursday the 27th of September 2012 councillors in North Cambridge set “anti-social cycling” as one of their three top policing priorities for the area. Councillors set the priority to apply throughout North Cambridge, but expressed concern […]
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Cambs Police Still Holding Back Phone Answering Data
On the 13th of September 2012 I observed, and was unexpectedly invited to participate in, Cambridgeshire County Council’s Police and Crime Scrutiny Committee. In December 2011 the committee had requested detailed statistics from Cambridgeshire Police on their failure to answer non-emergency 101 phone calls in a reasonable amount of time in many cases. In June […]
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Million Pound a Year Personal Office for Cambs Police and Crime Commissioner
One Million Pounds (as seized by West Midlands Police [licence]) The chair of Cambridgeshire Police Authority, Ruth Rodgers, was called to appear before Cambridgeshire County Council’s Police and Crime Scrutiny Committee on the 13th of September 2012. Rodgers was asked to explain why the authority was not giving notice to its staff despite its impending […]
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Penultimate Meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority – September 2012
I observed the penultimate full meeting of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority on the 7th of September 2012. Key and Notable Points The Chief Constable urged the public to be “patient and persistent” when trying to phone the police. I thought this astonishing as he, and the authority, should be getting the phones answered promptly. No […]
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Emergency Planning Briefing – Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council Cabinet Member Steve Tierney. (Source) Cambridgeshire County Council’s Executive Councillor for Public Health, Cllr Steve Tierney, has created a “cabinet advisory group” to look at emergency planning / disaster preparedness in the county which he invited me to join. Three meetings of the group have been scheduled, the first, held on the […]