In advance of a Cambridgeshire Police Authority Scrutiny Committee meeting to be held on the 12th of September a paper on restorative justice, providing an update on its implementation in Cambridgeshire has been published.
Key Points
Cambridgeshire Police are planing to reduce the number of those taken into its police stations by a quarter through [...]
Cambridgeshire Police’s Sector Inspector for the Ely area Robin Sissons - Interviewed for a Star Radio Podcast.
Every two weeks Cambridgeshire Police’s Sector Inspector for the Ely area Robin Sissons does an interview with Star Radio which is published online as a podcast. Highlights are also broadcast on the radio. Last week I noticed @StarCambridge inviting [...]
The South Cambridge Policing Area
On the evening of the 11th of July 2011 I observed Cambridge’s South Area Committee hold a session on the local police priorities.
I submitted notice before the meeting started that I wanted to use the public speaking slot, to comment on policing. The police item was taken first, after [...]
Cambridgeshire Police Authority meet in public, but interesting items are taken in secret session
On the 29th of June 2011 I observed a meeting of Cambridgeshire Police Authority.
Key Points:
A decision was taken to axe the force helicopter, saving £500,000 a year by moving to use the Chiltern Air Support Unit as well as continuing with [...]
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 [...]
TASER Preferred Target Areas Shown In Blue (Source: TASER International Training Bulletin 15)
A couple of days ago Cambridge MP Julian Huppert forwarded me a press release from the Home Affairs Select committee alerting me to a one-off evidence session on the use of tasers by UK police forces to be held on Tuesday [...]
I attended the meeting of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority held on the 30th of September 2010. It was held at police headquarters in Huntington; I had to show my passport before I was allowed in.
After a briefly welcoming the new Chief Constable, Simon Parr, to his first police authority meeting the first item taken [...]
Lunch menu from the Cambridgeshire County Council meeting on the 19th of October 2010. (I did not have permission to photograph the meeting itsself)
On the 19th of October 2010 my local County Councillor, Rupert Moss-Eccardt, invited me to observe a full meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council from the floor of the chamber and to join [...]
Two residents of Evergreens, a cul-de-sac off Green End Road, in Chesterton attended the North Area Committee on Thursday the 30th of September 2010 to speak during the police priority setting section of the meeting.
They described the shocking behaviour of some parents who park in the cul-de-sac while dropping their children off at the [...]
Earlier today, in response to a public question I asked at a full meeting of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority, it was revealed that Cambridgeshire Police are no longer planning to issue TASER weapons to non-firearms officers.
I have been campaigning and lobbying against the previous government’s proposals to arm all frontline police officers with TASER [...]