Category: Merseyside Police

Majority of councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to increase in police element of council tax (Wirral, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley) from April 2020 as part of outgoing Police and Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy’s last budget

Majority of councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to increase in police element of council tax (Wirral, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley) from April 2020 as part of outgoing Police and Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy’s last budget

Majority of councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to increase in police element of council tax (Wirral, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley) from April 2020 as part of outgoing Police and Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy’s last budget

                       

By John Brace – Local Government Editor
and
Leonora Brace – Justice Correspondent

Cllr Les Rowlands and Cllr Adrian Jones (foreground) Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 7th February 2020
Cllr Les Rowlands and Cllr Adrian Jones (foreground) Merseyside Police and Crime Panel 7th February 2020

We were off to Knowsley Council in Huyton for a public meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel this morning (7th February 2020) when councillors (the two from Wirral were Cllr Adrian Jones (Labour) and Cllr Les Rowlands (Conservative)) (pictured above) decided to increase the police element of council tax from April 2020.
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Memoirs – Chapter 1 – SAPE, the Russian Doll problem and the “black budget” of Merseyside Police

Memoirs – Chapter 1 – SAPE, the Russian Doll problem and the “black budget” of Merseyside Police

Memoirs – Chapter 1 – SAPE, the Russian Doll problem and the “black budget” of Merseyside Police

                            

Memoirs – Chapter 1 – SAPE, the Russian Doll problem and the “black budget” of Merseyside Police

The SAPE problem had deliberately hidden itself in code like a Russian Doll inside another Russian Doll (with the smaller Russian Doll pretending to be something it wasn’t). Unauthorised code shouldn’t be there, it had turned up in a regular security test.
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Local council cuts led to people being held longer in police custody due to lack of appropriate adults

Local council cuts led to people being held longer in police custody due to lack of appropriate adults

Local council cuts led to people being held longer in police custody due to lack of appropriate adults

                                             

Below is a copy of the service specification for the provision of an appropriate adult service for vulnerable adults in Merseyside Police custody (for the financial year 2018-19).
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What is the Merseyside Police plan to end a dedicated police presence at Liverpool Crown Court to save £188,524?

What is the Merseyside Police plan to end a dedicated police presence at Liverpool Crown Court to save £188,524?

What is the Merseyside Police plan to end a dedicated police presence at Liverpool Crown Court to save £188,524?

                                 

Queen Elizabeth II Combined Court (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019)
Queen Elizabeth II Combined Court (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019))

A Merseyside Police plan to disband a Court Reassurance Team based at the Queen Elizabeth II Combined Court in Liverpool has been included in papers for a public meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel next week (17th October 2019).
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Merseyside Police unsuccessfully disputed £311,134.22 of charges by West Yorkshire Police for air support through NPAS (National Police Air Service)

Merseyside Police unsuccessfully disputed £311,134.22 of charges by West Yorkshire Police for air support through NPAS (National Police Air Service)

Merseyside Police unsuccessfully disputed £311,134.22 of charges by West Yorkshire Police for air support through NPAS (National Police Air Service)

                                     

Disputed invoice West Yorkshire Police Merseyside Police Q3 2017 18 NPAS (National Police Air Service) £533,094.74
Disputed invoice West Yorkshire Police Merseyside Police Q3 2017 18 NPAS (National Police Air Service) £533,094.74

Back in August 2012 I reported how the councillors on the Merseyside Police Authority agreed to Merseyside Police’s helicopter (Eurocopter EC-135 registration G-XM11) previously based at RAF Woodvale was leased for use by the Oslo Police Department (Norway) and it has since been repainted and is used in Norway.
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