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Fire: Training exercise at Aintree University Hospital
Police: GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON TERRORISM
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Police: Using PFD Reports
We’ve started the new year with some familiar messages – more preventing future death reports (PFDs) from UK coroners after someone tragically lost their life in circumstances which gave rise to fears that aspects could be repeated and lead to future tragedy. PFDs are statutory notices, something the Coroner issues to an agency who may control aspects of what went wrong or contributed to the outcome. This could be anything from training of staff, to policies and procedures within or across agencies to anything else thought relevant. The organisation in receipt of such a notice has 56days to respond outlining their reaction to the recommendation(s) and these things are usually uploaded to the Office of the Chief Coroner’s website, where the notices are categorised by theme.
I’ve regularly browsed this website for a number of years and this post comes after another recent session – you may find these links useful, if you wish to do the same. These things are tagged in the way that a social media blog would be, so you may...
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Police: RACISM IS THE NEW McARTHYISM
Last week the actor Laurence Fox appeared on the panel of the BBC programme "Question Time". In response to a comment re Duchess of Sussex from an audience member widely considered to have been planted by the BBC he was accused of being a “white privileged male”. His reply, “I can’t help what I am, I was born like this, it’s an immutable characteristic, so to call me a white privileged male is to be racist — you’re being racist.” was well received by the audience.
And that whole sorry episode reminded me of a conversation just before Christmas...
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Fire: MFRS pledges support for national ‘Brew Monday’ campaign
Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service pledges support for national ‘Brew Monday’ campaign
Police: Hotel Rooms and s136
I’ve written about the issue of the Mental Health Act and hotel rooms before – focussing on the stated case of ‘Rosso’. I’m not hyperlinking to the old blog post precisely because it is now redundant and out of date – it was written a few years ago, well before the 2017 changes to the Mental Health Act which took effect in December 2018. Forget it – Rosso is now history and has been for a while. I want to go through how the police now need to think about hotel rooms and the Mental Health Act 1983, specifically sections 135/136 MHA. This post follows the desperately sad inquest in to the death of Dr Deborah Lamont who, the Coroner ruled today, died by suicide in a Cardiff hotel in March 2019.
It will be necessary and relevant to see the full PFD report from the Coroner to answer some of the questions I’m interested in, but a big issue emerges from this inquest in the immediate media coverage and which addresses a question I was asked only yesterday, during the delivery of training in my own force:
Is a hotel...
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Fire: High-rise training exercise in Kirkby
Kirkby Green Watch, SM Steve Thomas and KHT staff
Fire: MFRS echoes concerns over Landlord Licensing decision
Police: ALLOW MEDIA TO SPONSOR LIVE TELEVISING MAGISTRATES COURTS
Guide to Jury Service Eligibility and Applying for Excusal in Scotland
Are you qualified for jury service?
Subject to the information included in boxes A and B below, you are qualified for jury...
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Police: BANNED FOR RIDING AN E BIKE
An EAPC must have pedals that can be used to propel it.
It must show either:
the power output
the manufacturer of the motor
It must also show either:
the battery’s voltage
the maximum speed of the bike
Its electric motor:
must have a maximum power output of 250 watts
should not be able to propel the bike when it’s travelling more than 15.5mph
An EAPC can have more than 2 wheels (for example, a tricycle).
Where you can ride
If a bike meets the EAPC requirements it’s classed as a normal pedal bike. This means you can ride it on cycle paths and anywhere else pedal bikes are allowed
It was therefore surprising to read that a disqualified car driver at Taunton Magistrates Court was further disqualified as a result of riding an E bike. I would hope that the bench was familiar with the law as above.
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