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Downing Street taxi protest against “rapist” minicabs leaves London’s roads in chaos



Cab drivers demonstrate outside over private hire rules

It’s yet another transport dispute that isn’t being resolved and, yet again, Londoners are going nowhere.

Black cab drivers in the capital staged protests today over the safety standards of private hire vehicles.

Claiming “no woman is safe in a minicab”, the drivers blocked roads in Whitehall and across London for a two-hour protest at 11am today.

The protest was organised by the United Cabbies Group (UCG) who said Transport for London has dropped the requirement for minicab drivers to have a full criminal background check, while black cab drivers still need to comply, which can take months to complete.

The union said: “The upshot of this is that members of the public can now listen to free music on their mp3 players whilst being driven around by rapists or murderers. There are over 100 reported sexual assaults in minicabs in London every year and we know less than 10% of rapes and sexual assaults are reported.”

source: http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/busi ... 03.article

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George Carlin

One rule for them and a rule for the others.

Normal bilge there has not been any reduction in criminal record checks

UCG is most definitely not a UNION========================why publish such sh!t

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There's no criminal record checks - that's the problem.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Says who ????????????????

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TfL


Foreign convicts allowed to work as taxi drivers without disclosing crimes

Licensing authorities in London are not allowed to carry out background checks on asylum seekers and refugees

Foreign convicts could be given jobs as taxi drivers because of a legal loophole preventing employers from checking their records, it has emerged.

Licensing authorities in London are not allowed to carry out background checks on asylum seekers and refugees in case it damages their case.

The gap in the rules is spelled out in a Transport for London document on “private hire driver licensing” applications.

The form states: “With regards to overseas criminal records checks, no such checks will be made in respect of those applicants who declare that they are in possession of or who have applied for refugee or asylum status.”

Conservative MP Nick de Bois told the Daily Express: “They should not be offering licences to those they can’t check on. They could be putting vulnerable members of the public in the hands of thieves, murderers and rapists. It beggars belief.”

Every driver who applies for a taxi licence is meant to go through checks to reveal any criminal past. Those from outside the EU who have spent more than three months abroad in the past three years have to provide a “letter of good conduct” from their home embassy.

But asylum seekers or refugees are rarely able to supply a certificate from their home country. That means they are exempted from having to disclose all their possible convictions.

TfL’s Helen Chapman said: “Any applicant that has lived in a country other than the UK for more than three months within the last three years is required to produce a certificate of good conduct.

“We recognise this may not be possible if an applicant is granted asylum or refugee status and, where applicable, these applicants will be required to provide a certificate from any other country of residence within the last three years. They will also be required to provide evidence of their certificate of registration or a letter from the Border and Immigration Agency.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rimes.html

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

if that isn't a loophole then Arsenal must be in the FA cup semifinals and Elvis is living in a hut on the mars and responsible for the methane emissions they've just sent a rocket to investigate !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector