Road safety advice for Londoners: avoid Boris’s bike
You might expect the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Chair of Transport for London to be a law-abiding, safety-conscious example to the rest of us. Not when it’s London Mayor, Boris...
View ArticleInnocent people deserve better treatment from Met over DNA database
A party news release brings the message: Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and member of the MPA, has today called for the Met to address its poor record of meeting...
View ArticleDee Doocey: London Mayor should not take over the Metropolitan Police...
Commenting on the statement by Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, that she intends to push through plans for directly elected police commissioners, Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly...
View ArticleThe police’s serious IT failures over stop and search
The use of stop and search by the police, particularly in London, has often come under criticism. Most often it’s been about ridiculous cases where someone has been stopped or, more seriously, the...
View ArticleMet set to lose £5m from collapse of Icelandic bank
London’s Metropolitan Policy Authority had £30m deposited with Landsbanki, the Icelandic bank which collapsed in late 2008. Combing through some of the latest financial information from the MPA, it’s...
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Dee Doocey challenges Met Police Commissioner over treatment of photographers
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has said that although the Met has issued guidelines to officers about people taking photographs in public places, he cannot guarantee that officers...
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Government scraps target – Met Police sets up new committee
You might have thought that scrapping central government targets would result in local bodies being able to cut at least some of their own monitoring and reporting setups. But in an Alice in Wonderland...
View ArticleIs there a secret joker in the Met Police?
Working through the bureaucratic-speak and acronyms in the police’s report to the Metropolitan Police Authority about the draft London Transport Community Safety Strategy I discovered that the police...
View ArticleThe Met Police have an unusual problem
I suspect there are many parts of the public sector which wished they had this problem: Underspending continues to be an issue in the management of the capital programme, although unused funds can...
View ArticleSenior police regular met privately with News of the World staff whilst paper...
Diary details released by the Metropolitan Police show that senior police officers met personally with senior editorial staff from the News of the World eight times in the last two years alone and a...
View ArticleCross-party smackdown for Home Secretary
A tweet crosses my desk from Cllr Kemp, itself a retweet from LGCPlus journalist Ruth Keeling. It contains a link to the Association of Police Authorities – not a body I am overly familiar with, but it...
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