Richard Taylor

Tag: Cambridgeshire

  • More on Cambridgeshire Police Stop and Search from Ely Police Open Day

    Cambridgeshire Police Stop and Search Form I visited Ely police station today during its open day. One reason I went was to try and find out more about the recording of stop and search in a more direct and speedy manner than is possible via Cambridge’s area committees, police authority papers, and freedom of information […]

  • Cambs Police Authority Scrutiny Committee September 2011

    On the 12th of September 2011 I attended a meeting of the scrutiny committee of Cambridgeshire’s Police Authority at Cambridgeshire Police Headquarters in Huntington. I have written separate articles on two aspects of the meeting: Restorative Justice Update – My use of the public speaking slot to ask for more information about the way the […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Not Answering Phone

    Cambridgeshire Police Non-Emergency Call Performance (large) On Monday the 12th of September 2011 Cambridgeshire Police’s Deputy Chief Constable, John Feavyour, described the force’s telephone answering system as “fragile” and said call answering performance had “fallen through the floor” on a number of occasions over the last year. He said the latest statistics showed particularly poor […]

  • LibDem Leader Bourke Not Trusted With Confidential Information

    Left: Clarke (Conservative), Right: Bourke (Liberal Democrat) On Tuesday the 19th of July I observed the start of a Cambridgeshire County Council full council meeting. The council noted that Kilian Bourke, the Liberal Democrat, County Councillor for Romsey had become the Leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition. The chairman invited party leaders to say some […]

  • Cambridgeshire Police Force Area

    I thought a Google Map of the Cambridgeshire Police Force Area would come in useful. Use the on-map controls to zoom etc. The police are moving to use the districts shown, which line up with local council boundaries, as their command units. I have commented on the Cambridgeshire Police restructuring in another article. This map […]

  • Hike in Cambridge On Street Parking Charges

    The Guest Road area is to see the largest increase in residents parking permit charges I have just returned from observing a meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council’s cabinet where the decision was taken to increase Cambridge’s on street parking charges. The cabinet approved raising the annual charge for residents parking permits from around £40-50 to […]

  • Cambridgeshire Renewables Infrastructure Framework – Kick Off

    Alex Plant, CEO of Cambridgeshire Horizons, at the CRIF event. On the 25th of May 2011 I attended the kick-off meeting of the Cambridgeshire Renewables Infrastructure Framework. Despite attending the four hour event and reading the project’s website I wasn’t really in a position to offer a succinct summary of what the “CRIF” is or […]

  • Antidemocratic Changes Proposed to Cambridgeshire County Council Constitution

    Proposed amendments to Cambridgeshire County Council’s constitution have been published today, just one day before they are to go before a meeting of the full council on the 17th of May 2011. The amendments have been put forward by Councillor Nick Clarke, who was recently elected leader of the ruling Conservative group on the council, […]

  • Commenting on Cambridgeshire Police Restructing

    At about 08:10 on the morning of Friday the 13th of May 2011 I went on the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire breakfast show to respond to the Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable’s plans to restructure the force. (In a way only a man in uniform could, the Chief Constable has dubbed his plans “Operation Redesign”). The police […]

  • Cambridgeshire County Council Full Council December 2010

    I observed Cambridgeshire County Council’s Full Council on the 7th of December 2010. The meeting was, as I had predicted from the sparse agenda, rather devoid of substantive content. The 450 jobs to go and £161 million cuts at the council which were reported in the media two days after the meeting were not mentioned […]