Cllr Tim Bick, Executive Councillor for Policing, Cambridge City Council.
On the 19th of April 2012 I used the public speaking slot at a full meeting of Cambridge City Council to ask the executive councillor for policing, Tim Bick (Liberal Democrat, Market) what he had been doing in that role.
I said I thought the role [...]
On the 19th of April 2012 Cllr George Owers (Labour, Coleridge) asked an oral question about dog poo at a full meeting of Cambridge City Council.
Cllr Owers’ question was:
“In light of the council’s catastrophically poor record at taking enforcement action against irresponsible dog owners for dog-fouling, are there plans to co-operate with PCSOs and/or [...]
Sgt Capes of Cambridgeshire Police presenting a report on youth antisocial behaviour in Melbourn.
On the evening of the 17th of April 2012 I attended the Bassingbourne and Melbourn Neighbourhood panel meeting, at which the local police priorities for the upcoming couple of months were set.
The panel meeting was not run democratically, the priorities [...]
On the evening of the 12th of April 2012 I observed councillors on Cambridge’s East Area Committee set the areas’s policing priorities for the upcoming four months. Problems caused by street drinkers were by far the top issue raised by councillors.
Sergeant Jamie Stenton for Cambridgeshire Police initially reported:
“Street life people [his words] are [...]
Wooden bollards between Water St. and Fen Road which kept getting sawn down have been replaced with metal ones.
On Tuesday the 20th of March 2012 at 6pm in the Shirley School on Nuffield Road another public meeting is to be held to discuss the problems associated with Fen Road in East Chesterton. The [...]
Book Cited By Cambridge City Council Justifying Foray Into Restorative Justice
On Thursday the 15th of March councillors on Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee will discuss bringing a new form of restorative justice to Cambridge.
Meetings called “Neighbourhood Resolution Panels” which would involve “offenders” discussing their actions with their victims in sessions chaired by [...]
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert
At the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference being held on the weekend of 10-11 March 2012 Cambridge MP Julian Huppert is moving a motion titled “Civil Liberties” scheduled for debate at 10:45 am on the Sunday morning.
The text of the motion is available, but only deep within the Conference Agenda (on page [...]
Superintendent Vicky Skeels, Police Commander for Cambridge
The latest Star Radio Police Podcast is an interview with Superintendent Vicky Skeels, the new area commander for Cambridge.
Following operation redesign Cambridgeshire Police has aligned its organisational structure to the local authority areas. As I understand it Skeels took on the role in January 2012 but [...]
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Later today Cambridge’s West Central Area Committee will consider a proposal from Cambridgeshire Police to introduce a “dispersal zone” under S30 of New Labour’s Antisocial Behaviour Act into part of the city centre. If approved PCSOs would be able to order two or more people to separate, and/or leave the area, if [...]
Prominent 20 mph signage, and traffic slowing pinch point, in Saffron Walden
It was well after midnight when Cambridge City Council’s Full Council, which had started on Thursday the 23rd of February 2011, reached a motion on enforcement of 20mph speed limits in the city.
The motion was proposed by Cllr Tim Bick, who is the [...]