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| Author: | captain cab [ Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records checks |
Huge backlog forces London cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records checks London mayor Boris Johnson today called on Scotland Yard to urgently tackle the red tape chaos which has forced hundreds of taxi and minicab drivers off the road. The drivers are caught up in a backlog of criminal records checks while they wait for their licences to be issued or renewed. The Met said each driver's application was taking 54 days on average to process. One driver, who asked to remain anonymous, told ITV news he was forced to stop working in August and still had no idea when his licence would be renewed. "All I'm trying to do is get my licence. I've been re-licensed in the past with no problems at all. But just recently it's all gone to pot," he said. "It's shocking. It was only when I tweeted that Tony had this problem that hundreds of London cabbies said 'we're in exactly the same boat'. "Self-employed, no sick pay, no holiday pay and they're waiting now because of the ineptitude of this system, they're waiting for their jobs. They can't work, can't get money." Boris Johnson described the delays as 'unfair'. "I've asked the police to draft in a large number of people and get on and clear the backlog," the Mayor said. The scale of the problem was exposed by ITV This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield when he told Twitter followers about his regular driver Tony, whose licence renewal was caught in the backlog. "It's not fair either on private hire vehicles or on the black cabs who frankly ought to be able to ply their trade without having to wait endlessly for these checks." A spokesman for Scotland Yard, which carries out the checks on behalf of government agency, the Disclosure and Barring Service, said: "We are actively working to recurit more staff to deal with the increasing demand by the DBS. However Disclosure and Barring Service checks are not simple administrative work. "Staff are making decisions about the disclosure of information on MPS databases that directly impacts children and vulnerable adults and those who seek to work with them. "For this reason, staff require three months specialist training and supervision by current, experienced staff to be fully productive weven at the basic level." source: http://www.itv.com/news/london/2015-09- ... ds-checks/ |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. |
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| Author: | grandad [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. A lot of Councils will not issue licenses until the DBS check has come back because of the recent sexploitation cases. |
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| Author: | GBC [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. We did, then Hendy the prostitute lover changed the goal posts. Mines due next month, if they think I'm stopping because they can't get their act together ..... then I look forward to the court case. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
GBC wrote: Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. We did, then Hendy the prostitute lover changed the goal posts. Mines due next month, if they think I'm stopping because they can't get their act together ..... then I look forward to the court case. they're hopeless, they wouldn't catch you anyway - I mean - I aint caught you for a return bottle of becks since the last century ffs |
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| Author: | GBC [ Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
captain cab wrote: GBC wrote: Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. We did, then Hendy the prostitute lover changed the goal posts. Mines due next month, if they think I'm stopping because they can't get their act together ..... then I look forward to the court case. they're hopeless, they wouldn't catch you anyway - I mean - I aint caught you for a return bottle of becks since the last century ffs Does he still owe you that drink? |
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| Author: | grandad [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
Nidge2 wrote: captain cab wrote: they're hopeless, they wouldn't catch you anyway - I mean - I aint caught you for a return bottle of becks since the last century ffs Does he still owe you that drink? And they say elephants never forget. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
grandad wrote: And they say elephants never forget. or northerners - with Scottish blood 
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
captain cab wrote: grandad wrote: And they say elephants never forget. or northerners - with Scottish blood Do they still make Becks???? 
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
grandad wrote: Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. A lot of Councils will not issue licenses until the DBS check has come back because of the recent sexploitation cases. OURS won't issue a badge untill DBS in BUT it is usually the police that cause the hold up as all the DBS do is write to the relevant police force to check if there is anything recent. If the police delay dealing with those requests you're stuck untilthey do |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
GBC wrote: We did, then Hendy the prostitute lover changed the goal posts. Why? |
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| Author: | GBC [ Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
Sussex wrote: GBC wrote: We did, then Hendy the prostitute lover changed the goal posts. Why? Pass.  We wonder about many of Hendy's decisions that he took over the years. |
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| Author: | GBC [ Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
edders23 wrote: grandad wrote: Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. A lot of Councils will not issue licenses until the DBS check has come back because of the recent sexploitation cases. OURS won't issue a badge untill DBS in BUT it is usually the police that cause the hold up as all the DBS do is write to the relevant police force to check if there is anything recent. If the police delay dealing with those requests you're stuck untilthey do Might have something to do with the current Government cutting the Police budget back to 1979 levels? |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: cabbies off road as they wait for criminal records check |
GBC wrote: Sussex wrote: Mine took a fortnight. Interested to find out why London don't issue a temp license whilst the checks progress. OURS won't issue a badge untill DBS in BUT it is usually the police that cause the hold up as all the DBS do is write to the relevant police force to check if there is anything recent. If the police delay dealing with those requests you're stuck untilthey do Might have something to do with the current Government cutting the Police budget back to 1979 levels? I think that is almost certainly the case fewer support staff means that they can't deal with DBS checks quickly |
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