FIT AND PROPER
SEFTON POLICE EAGLE EYED SPOT CHECK LEADS TO PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER ARREST
A knuckle duster and baton were found after a PHV was stopped by police. Merseyside Police said they were carrying out checks on the PHV and noticed a baton in the door of the car. Following a full search of the Volkswagen Passat, police also found a knuckle duster. Sharing the news of the arrest on Facebook, Sefton Police said:
“Operation Pelican has this evening arrested a 45-year-old male for possession of an
offensive weapon x2. “Officers have carried out checks on a private hire vehicle, whilst speaking with the driver officers noticed a baton in the door of the vehicle. A full search has then been completed and a knuckle duster has also been recovered. The male was arrested and remains in custody awaiting questioning.”
WORTHING TAXI DRIVER’S LICENCE SUSPENDED FOLLOWING ACCIDENT
A Worthing taxi driver has had his licence suspended by the council following an accident. Worthing Borough Council’s Licensing and Control Committee took the decision in private, to protect the individual’s identity, last month. According to draft minutes from the meeting, the cabbie’s driving ‘fell below the standard that was
expected of a professional driver’. He ‘did not slow down’ when he saw a woman in the road and was ‘driving with one hand on the steering wheel’, according to the minutes. “It was apparent that there was an accident and the respondent failed to stop and failed to report the incident,” say the minutes. Members of the committee
decided it was ‘proportionate and necessary’ to suspend the man’s hackney
carriage licence
immediately, in the interest of public safety. They were concerned that the driver failed to show he would act any differently in a similar situation. The cabbie must complete a driving assessment course if he wants to work in the area again.
CORNWALL CABBIE CONVICTED OF STALKING FAILS IN BID TO GET HIS LICENCE BACK
A driver who lost his dual licence in April 2021 after being convicted of stalking has lost his bid to get the licence back. Cornwall Council’s licensing committee made the decision in a private session at its meeting on July 22 for which the minutes were recently published. Members heard that the applicant, identified only as CD235, had been convicted on an offence of stalking and causing a female alarm or
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distress which had a substantial adverse effect on her, by sending messages, parking near her house, attending her workplace
and
making complaints to her employer. The applicant had been sentenced in March 2021 to 12 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 24 months, with 100 hours of unpaid work, 25 rehabilitation activity requirements and a restraining order imposed for five years.
Following the conviction the driver had their licence revoked with immediate effect. At the recent July meeting the committee refused the application as they did not think he was a fit and proper person, due to the seriousness and length of time of the offending and a concern that the restraining order “could seriously impair the applicant’s ability to function as a taxi driver.
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