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He was also convicted for a road traffic offence in February 2018 while he was driving a taxi licensed by West Dunbartonshire when he drove over the chevron area prior to the exit slip road to Glasgow airport. He was fined £150 and given three penalty points on that occasion.

Chief Inspector Fulton said: “It is clear that even though Mr Brownlie gave assurance that he was a changed character at the previous licensing committee, he was aware at that hearing that he has then gone on to incur a further road traffic offence involving a taxi licensed by West Dunbartonshire.

“It is the Chief Constable’s opinion that Mr Brownlie is still committing offences despite his previous comments and Your Honour may wish to consider if Mr Brownlie is suitable to hold a West Dunbartonshire taxi driver’s licence.”

Mr Brownlie’s licence was revoked when he applied for a full licence in 2017.

“Since April 2017 he has not come to the notice of the authorities at all.”

Scott Brownlie, 52, was handed the six week temporary licence at West Dunbartonshire’s licensing committee last week saying he was keen to “improve his life” by working as a cabbie.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious :roll:

convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors !

edders23 wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something obvious :roll:

convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors !

He was refused from the outset.
You have not read the Council documentation correctly.

Edders didn't use the quote function in his response, but it was StuartW who wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something obvious :roll:

convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors !

After getting hold of the wrong end of the stick (again!) edders23 wrote:

Edders didn't use the quote function in his response, but it was StuartW who wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something obvious :roll:

convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors !

Please reread my posts [-(

Mr. Brownlie subsequently attended a meeting of the Licensing Committee on 20 February 2019 where a hearing was held to determine an application for the grant of a temporary Taxi Driver’s/Private Hire Car Driver’s Licence having received a comment from Police Scotland. Having heard from the Police, Members decided to refuse the application.

After consideration, the Committee agreed that the application be granted for a period of 6 weeks.

nah too lazy on this occasion but I do some times :wink:

And I'm sure Edders will help him out occassionaly, as before :roll:

Author:	StuartW [ Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:01 am ]
Post subject:	Convicted Dumbarton heroin dealer granted temporary licence
Convicted Dumbarton heroin dealer handed taxi licence https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/loca ... d-14056598 Members of West Dunbartonshire Council's licensing committee gave the 52-year-old permission to drive a cab for the next six weeks. A drug dealer who was jailed for seven years for stashing £100,000 of heroin has been granted a licence to be a taxi driver. Scott Brownlie, 52, was handed the six week temporary licence at West Dunbartonshire’s licensing committee last week saying he was keen to “improve his life” by working as a cabbie. Inspector Callum Ferguson told the committee that the chief constable objected to Brownlie being given a temporary licence, saying: “He is not a fit and proper person to hold a licence”. However, solicitor Kenny Clark said Brownlie, of Oxhill Place, knew his licence would be revoked if he offended again and that he was keen to work. He said: “He is currently in receipt of Universal Credit and he is keen to earn money so he can improve his life. “If he is granted a licence and if there is even a whiff of trouble from him he knows his licence will be revoked. “Since April 2017 he has not come to the notice of the authorities at all.” Inspector Ferguson read letters to the committee detailing Brownlie’s list of previous offences with his most recent being in 2017 when he was caught driving across a chevron on the M8 while in a licenced West Dunbartonshire taxi. His other offences date back to 1992 when he was handed a 10-year jail term for conspiracy to assault and rob. He was then sentenced to three years in prison following an incident in June 1999 when police officers made an attempt to stop a vehicle he was driving in Knightswood. He rammed a stationary police vehicle and officers subsequently found a kilogramme of cocaine with a street value of £80,000 and 250 grammes of cannabis to the value of £1250 in a lock-up he owned. And in October 2011 he was found with the heroin haul, resulting in a seven-year sentence and a confiscation order of £1000 being imposed on him. Addressing the committee on the offences, Mr Clark said: “The offence committed in April 2017, he was driving a licensed taxi but he did not have a passenger. “He was in the inner lane and that was where the traffic was and he received a message on his system for a hire at Glasgow Airport and he then drove over the chevron on the motorway to move into the correct lane. “He was not causing any difficulty to any other traffic by carrying out that manoeuvre. “He recognises that there is no excuse for his convictions in 1992. “As for the 2000 convictions, he says he was not aware it was the police as it was an unmarked vehicle.” Council leader Jonathan McColl questioned this, saying: “You say he didn’t realise it was a police vehicle which sounds like you are implying it would have been OK for him to ram the car if it had been a civilian vehicle. Mr Clark replied: “No, he had drugs in his car and he thought these were people who had intentions of ill will towards him.” The committee unanimously granted the application.

Author:	StuartW [ Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:08 am ]
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Seems that he was given a licence previously despite his string of convictions, but it wasn't renewed when he reapplied in 2017 because of the chevrons offence: Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter wrote: He was also convicted for a road traffic offence in February 2018 while he was driving a taxi licensed by West Dunbartonshire when he drove over the chevron area prior to the exit slip road to Glasgow airport. He was fined £150 and given three penalty points on that occasion. Chief Inspector Fulton said: “It is clear that even though Mr Brownlie gave assurance that he was a changed character at the previous licensing committee, he was aware at that hearing that he has then gone on to incur a further road traffic offence involving a taxi licensed by West Dunbartonshire. “It is the Chief Constable’s opinion that Mr Brownlie is still committing offences despite his previous comments and Your Honour may wish to consider if Mr Brownlie is suitable to hold a West Dunbartonshire taxi driver’s licence.” Mr Brownlie’s licence was revoked when he applied for a full licence in 2017.

Author:	Nidge2 [ Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:37 am ]
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This trade is going to shit, whatever next....convicted kiddie fiddlers allowed to drive??

Author:	Sussex [ Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:10 pm ]
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Quote: “Since April 2017 he has not come to the notice of the authorities at all.” Whooppee dooos. New guidance from DfT says five year ban just for possession, ten years for supplying.

Author:	Sussex [ Fri Aug 28, 2020 9:43 pm ]
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Former taxi boss from Dumbarton has latest licence bid rejected A former taxi boss who has served three separate jail terms has had his latest bid to be granted a cab driver’s licence rejected. Members of West Dunbartonshire Council’s licensing committee refused the application made by Scott Brownlie of Oxhill Place in Dumbarton at a meeting last week. The 53-year-old has previously told councillors he was keen to “improve his life” by working as a cabbie. The former taxi boss first made his application to drive cabs in West Dunbartonshire back in 2017 while on licence, having been convicted of having a £100,000 drugs haul in 2012. Brownlie, a former secretary of Clydebank TOA Taxis, has previous convictions going back to the early 1990s. He has served three jail terms, including one for conspiracy to assault and rob, and was tagged when he was freed three years ago. Brownlie was handed a 10-year jail term in 1992 at the High Court in Kilmarnock for conspiracy to assault and rob. He was then sentenced to three years in prison from the High Court in Glasgow following an incident in June 1999 when police officers made an attempt to stop a vehicle he was driving in Knightswood. The committee previously heard from police how Brownlie rammed a stationary police vehicle. A subsequent search of a lock-up he owned found a kilogramme of cocaine with a street value of £80,000 and 250 grammes of cannabis worth £1250. In October 2011 he found himself in bother with the law again, resulting in a seven-year sentence and a confiscation order of £1000 when two packages of drugs with a street value of £100,000 was found in his home.

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Author:	StuartW [ Fri Aug 28, 2020 10:51 pm ]
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Last year the Daily Record wrote: Scott Brownlie, 52, was handed the six week temporary licence at West Dunbartonshire’s licensing committee last week saying he was keen to “improve his life” by working as a cabbie. So what's happened since he was granted the temporary licence last year that means his renewal now has been rejected

Author:	edders23 [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:58 am ]
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Quote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors !

Author:	heathcote [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:56 am ]
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edders23 wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors ! He was refused from the outset. You have not read the Council documentation correctly.

Author:	StuartW [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:16 pm ]
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heathcote wrote: edders23 wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors ! He was refused from the outset. You have not read the Council documentation correctly. Edders hasn't even read my post, never mind the council documentation. But then most of us have been assuming that for a couple of years now You're right about what's in the council documentation, but how is that consistent with the article from last year at the top of the thread, which said Brownlie was granted a temporary licence?

Author:	StuartW [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:24 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Convicted Dumbarton heroin dealer granted temporary lice
After getting hold of the wrong end of the stick (again!) edders23 wrote: Edders didn't use the quote function in his response, but it was StuartW who wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors ! Please reread my posts

Author:	edders23 [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:24 pm ]
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StuartW wrote: After getting hold of the wrong end of the stick (again!) edders23 wrote: Edders didn't use the quote function in his response, but it was StuartW who wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious convicted drug dealer therefore police don't think he's suitable ! In fact the only people who think he is are the councillors ! Please reread my posts nah too lazy on this occasion but I do some times

Author:	StuartW [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:44 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Convicted Dumbarton heroin dealer granted temporary lice
Took some time out from my busy schedule (washing the dishes, cleaning the lavvy etc) to look back at the minutes from last year. So at the most recent meeting, the agenda says: West Dumbartonshire licensing committee agenda, para 3.6 wrote: Mr. Brownlie subsequently attended a meeting of the Licensing Committee on 20 February 2019 where a hearing was held to determine an application for the grant of a temporary Taxi Driver’s/Private Hire Car Driver’s Licence having received a comment from Police Scotland. Having heard from the Police, Members decided to refuse the application. https://wdccmis.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/C ... Ff55vVA%3d But the minutes from 20 February 2019 say: West Dumbartonshire licensing committee minutes wrote: After consideration, the Committee agreed that the application be granted for a period of 6 weeks. It's the first item in the minutes here (which seems to be repeated as the second item, but I assume that's just an admin error of no significance). https://wdccmis.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/C ... Ff55vVA%3d

Author:	StuartW [ Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:50 pm ]
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I accidentally lost my earlier post while trying to copy and paste something from it, but the above post outlines the inconsistency between the minutes and newspaper article from February 2019, and the agenda and press report from the last few days. In a nutshell, according to the stuff from last year he was granted the temporary licence, but the recent stuff is saying his application back then was rejected

Author:	StuartW [ Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:06 pm ]
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edders23 wrote: nah too lazy on this occasion but I do some times Which in turn reminds me why I haven't been posting the news recently - if people can't be bothered spending a minute or two reading the posts, then I can't be bothered putting a lot more effort into putting them on the forum in the first place But Sussex is doing a grand job And I'm sure Edders will help him out occassionaly, as before

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Author:	edders23 [ Tue Sep 01, 2020 5:59 am ]
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Quote: And I'm sure Edders will help him out occassionaly, as before I'm windows XP therefore cannot access the majority of sites because my version of browser is too old (cannot update it) if I could I probably would do more.