TASER armed officer in the UK
Further details of Cambridgeshire Police’s plans to expand TASER deployment have been published. The Chief Constable intends to train one hundred and twenty non-firearms officers to use the weapons. That’s just over one in ten of the force’s 1011 constables.
A paper from Cambridgeshire Police’s Chief Constable to Cambridgeshire Police [...]
I observed Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s full meeting on the 20th of December 2011.
Riots
The Deputy Chief Constable noted the two reports which have been published this week on the causes of the riots:
The rules of engagement: A review of the August 2011 disorders - HMIC.
Report-Policing Large Scale Disorder: lessons from the disturbances of August 2011 [...]
Police Officer Carrying a TASER
A full meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority held on the 20th of December 2011 began debating proposals from Chief Constable Simon Parr to expand the force’s TASER use.
I attended the meeting and used the public speaking slot. My statement:
I hope when the force’s proposed changes to TASER policy are reached [...]
TASER armed officer on duty outside a pasty shop in Padstow, Cornwall.
TASER use by Cambridgeshire police is currently restricted to their Tactical Firearms Unit.
I support this as I am concerned that having officers routinely armed with TASER will damage the relationship between the police and the public and will lead to an escalation of [...]
This afternoon I was thrown out of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority Scrutiny Committee meeting.
During the agenda item on restorative justice disposals Deputy Chief Constable Feavyour drew members’ attention to a document he described as the force’s restorative justice policy which he stated was in the meeting papers. Also members of the authority were [...]
On the 18th of October 2011 Cambridgeshire County Councillors had the opportunity to ask questions of Cambridgeshire Police Authority.
In the past this opportunity has been wasted by councillors raising local issues which would have been better raised at local priority setting meetings.
The chair of the Police Authority, Ruth Rogers, was absent without explanation, [...]
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 [...]
On Monday the 12th of September 2011 I attended a meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Scrutiny Committee at which I used the public speaking slot to raise some concerns about the police force’s implementation of restorative justice disposals.
Restorative justice disposals as used by Cambridgeshire Police involve a PCSO or constable issuing an offender with [...]
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 [...]
At a meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority’s Scrutiny Committee to be held on Monday the 12th of September 2011 proposals for the authority to start tweeting are to be considered.
A report to the committee titled : Agenda Item 14 - Police Authority Use of Social Media - Twitter has been published in advance of [...]