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Really not happy about this.

Stopping drivers merely dropping off customers and force-feeding them education?

Stansted Airport: Child exploitation awareness to taxi drivers



Officers have spoken to more than 100 taxi drivers as part of work to protect children from criminal exploitation.

On Saturday (13 January), 106 taxis, Ubers, and private hire vehicles were stopped at Stansted Airport and provided information from the Children’s Society.

The information from this operation is fed into the Home Office and will help produce a national programme to ensure taxi drivers receive vulnerability and exploitation training.

Officers identified that around a third of the drivers they spoke to had not had any form of child criminal exploitation or vulnerability training.

One driver was dealt with for not having any insurance.

Superintendent Phil Stinger said: “Protecting children from being targeted and exploited by criminals, preying on their vulnerabilities, is one of our key priorities.

“But it’s not something we can do alone. We work with a range of partners, agencies and other organisations to help identify where a child may be being exploited and in danger.

“And taxi drivers can play a really valuable role in this. They come into contact with a huge number of people every day so can be really effective in recognising behaviour they don’t think is right.

“So it’s really important we engage with them and make them aware of signs a child’s being exploited"

Supt Stinger added: “I want to thank Stansted Airport for their support in this work.

“This is not stand-alone activity and not work which is reserved solely around the airport. We’ll be carrying out similar activity in different parts of the county in coming months.”

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IDFIMH

So were they checking all drivers' details whilst giving them a CSE lecture?

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IDFIMH

When have you ever seen a Superintendant at one of these checks/training events?

Guess someone is up for promotion.

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IDFIMH

Superintendent Phil Stinger, eh? Presumably he's with roads policing

But it's all a bit odd - even when it's a classroom thing, there's an element of blame-shifting, gaslighting and the bystanders lecturing to others about being bystanders .

But as part of a stopcheck?

Was guessing maybe in reality the stopchecks were just the stanard ones, with a bit of the CSE stuff added, which was then emphasised in the PR blitz. But if they only found one insurance issue in over 100 cars and nothing else...

(Of course, mabye they did find lots of minor stuff, and the insurance one was the only suspension, or whatever.)

Also interested in this:


That's a bit like saying:

"While working closely on a crackdown with partner agencies, last weekend we visited 67 pubs, the Rose & Crown and nightclubs as part of our campaign to address the issue of violence against women."

CSE awareness is part of the SQA taxi certificate - compulsory in Glasgow now, not sure about elsewhere

The police have obviously identified Stansted as a hotbed of child sexual expoitation.

In the past that area was often full of cars pulled by the police with nearly all the drivers (and passengers) of certain ethnic origin usually under the pretext of checking for possible terrorists

but i'm sure essex police don't racially profile their targets

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I think the numbers of L.A's that don't can be counted on your fingers.

The thing is if it's anything like ours it was an online course with a multiple choice exam and then you downloaded the certificate and I doubt I can remember any of it. It would also be very easy to cheat as the verification process wasn't very secure

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

Saw this the other day on Spiked in an article about the latest CSE report:


Imagine trying to enforce that, particularly when you consider the definitions of the driver and passenger above. No wonder nothing was ever done in that regard

Maybe it's one good argument against rear privacy glass, though, at least in the sense of councillors in a committee room. In the real world, it would probably make zero difference, as the quote above as a whole demonstrates.

But I'm sure Wolverhampton Council at least have all that kind of thing sorted

I think the training is mandatory in many councils, but those councils do it online not at the side of the road near an airport.

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