Shapour Meftah, conservative candidate for Arbury at the City Council Elections posted a leaflet to my house today, and as he was still on the street by the time I’d read it I went out to ask him some questions. I started with asking why he wants to scrap the “expensive area committee meetings”, […]
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Abolition of Stop and Account in Cambridge - Click for Full Article
Sunday, April 20, 2008
As Inspector Hutchinson told the April North Area committee meeting stop and account forms had been abolished in Cambridge, yet I could find nothing to back this up on the Police, Police Authority, Home Office, the BBC or any other news media websites I decided to ask some questions and make some suggestions via […]
CCTV on Jesus Green - Click for Full Article
Friday, April 18, 2008
Martin Beaumont (City Council’s CCTV Manager),
CC: Independent Punter’s Campaign
I have recently had my attention drawn to the cameras in the bowling pavilion on Jesus Green. I am aware there are signs on the building, but believe that the way the cameras are mounted in holes in the wooden wall of the building, behind wire grills […]
April 2008 North Area Committee Meeting - Click for Full Article
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I attended the North Area Committee meeting on Thursday the 17th of April in Cambridge.
Highlights
Sector Inspector Jon Hutchinson assured me after the meeting that he would ask if stop and account records collected in Cambridge could be deleted/destroyed now records of stops and accounts are no-longer made.
Councillors removed burglary as a priority for the […]
Questions to Cambridge’s Party Leaders - Click for Full Article
Monday, April 14, 2008
Andy Harper, (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire)
I heard on your show that you’ll be interviewing the leaders of the main political parties this week so I am writing to you with some of my thoughts on the upcoming election:
During these local elections the important issues to me are the proposed expansion of the city and the associated […]
Cambridge Magistrate’s Court - Click for Full Article
Monday, April 7, 2008
I spent a day watching the Cambridge Magistrates Courts in action today.
Of the defendants I saw there were two eastern Europeans, one person from 222 Victoria Road, one from Jimmy’s night shelter, an elderly British man, and four young apparently local men in their teens/early twenties. I saw eight defendants, all were male. I […]
Public Meeting on Policing in Cambridge - Click for Full Article
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
I attended a public meeting with the Council’s Antisocial Behavior team and a PCSO in the St. Andrews Centre, Chesterton, Cambridge this evening.
The event was kicked off with an older couple raising concerns about inappropriate police priorities; they had had windows broken and had been burgled but not had a visit from a police officer; […]
Neighbourhood Policing Radio Adverts - Click for Full Article
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I have just heard a radio advert on Q103 in Cambridge advertising “Neighbourhood Policing” and directing those wishing to have their say to http://www.q103.co.uk.
On visiting the radio station website I was directed to :
http://www.neighbourhoodpolicesite.co.uk/?station=Q103
There I found a survey which I felt was asking a highly leading question: “What is your biggest crime related concern?” with […]
North West Cambridge Development - Click for Full Article
Monday, March 17, 2008
Plans for a proposed development which will comprise 2500 homes, a similar number of student residences as well as University buildings between Huntington Road, opposite Girton College though to Madingley Road, joining up with the observatory site on Madingley rise took a step forward today. A draft Northwest Cambridge Area Action Plan (AAP) draft, […]
CCTV - Martingale Close - Click for Full Article
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Mr Beaumont (City Council CCTV Manager),
Could you please let me know why there are two re-deployable Closed Circuit Television (RCCTV) cameras in Martingale Close. I note that a least one local resident did not immediately realise what the objects were which had appeared on the lampposts.
This leads me to question:
Did the signs go up at […]