Taxi Driver Online

This looks relevant to a lot of the discussion on here, particularly around licensing hearings and criminal prosecutions etc

Looks like this has just been issued, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a press release or whatever summarising it all. There's this, but it's little more than a brief introduction, basically.

The link to the actual guidance is below. It's not really a five minute read (and least if you want to take it all in), but on the other hand it's not the longest document of this type either.


Information sharing between police and taxi and PHV licensing authorities

When and how police forces and licensing authorities can share information with each other in the interest of public safety.

Details

Collaborative relationships between local licensing authorities, the police and local trade are vital to enable effective taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) regulation.

This guidance aims to support effective information sharing between licensing authorities and the police concerning taxi and PHV licensing.

It was co-written by the Department for Transport, the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council following working groups with the Disclosure and Barring Service, the Institute of Licensing, the Local Government Association and the National Association of Licensing and Enforcement Officers.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... uthorities

It also looks like a good summary of many licensing, regulation and enforcement basics. Which most of us reading on here will be familiar with anyway, but after a quick skim through I suspect everyone on here would learn something new from reading it

Usual caveat for stuff like this - it won't be directly applicable in Scotland, but no doubt a lot of the basic principles will be very similar.

Must be quite an odd set of circumstances where police know an individual is a licensed driver, but don't know which authority he's licensed with

I had a good read in the car today, and it does cover a lot of the stuff we have discussed for many years.

One thing I was never certain of, but the guidance now confirms, is that drivers are not legally required to tell the police they are taxi or PH drivers.

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So why does the basket case council big up their daily DBS updates, when the police only update weekly?

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It is just one of the many porkies they have told, wonder if the licensing officers have to pass a porkie pie telling test to get the job.

Talking of porkies and DBS stuff, couldn't help notice this in a recent Wolves agenda paper. I mean, this was written earlier this month


https://wolverhampton.moderngov.co.uk/m ... ?ID=307251

It's clear the basket case council lives in a world of its own, as most other councils treat them with contempt.

Therefore, they repeat all this stuff time and time again as they actually believe it to be true. The council equivalent of the online algorithms.

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