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Boobgate: ‘Leadership by Example’ and Chief Police Officers (Follow-Up)

Boobgate: ‘Leadership by Example’ and Chief Police Officers (Follow-Up) Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent TIM HICKS comments on a bizarre Police Disciplinary Hearing. ~~~~~ When I wrote my article “‘Leadership by Example’ and Chief Police Officers”, covering the fall from grace [...]

December 7, 2016 Police

“Blame The Officers – Not The Councillors”

A Letter to the Editor from TIM HICKS FCA, responding to J.M.WRIGHT’s letter as published in the Scarborough News. Mr HICKS is a Chartered Accountant and Certified Fraud Investigator – just the man to scrutinise the scrutineers. ~~~~~ Dear Sir, [...]

November 10, 2016 Letters

“Whistleblowing & Whitewash”

A Letter to the Editor from long-standing Enquirer contributor TIM HICKS, commenting on the performance of Scarborough Borough Council in relation to whistleblowing and whitewash. ~~~~~ Dear Sir, I have followed the articles published in the Scarborough News and North [...]

November 1, 2016 Letters

SBC: Proud & Prejudiced (Part One)

SBC: Proud & Prejudiced (Part One) an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, charting Scarborough Borough Council’s policy of selective transparency. ~~~~~ It may well be that the residents of every Borough and District in the country refer to [...]

September 19, 2016 Scarborough Borough Council

Operation Hyson Featured In ‘Private Eye’

Operation Hyson Featured In ‘Private Eye’ Regular readers of the North Yorkshire Enquirer who have followed the progress of Operation Hyson – the civil legal action pursued by North Yorkshire Police following the failure of Operation Rome (an abortive attempt [...]

August 31, 2016 Police

“Satire Is Not Harassment”

A Letter to the Editor from chartered accountant and investigative journalist Tim HICKS, commenting on the extraordinary attempt  by a Conservative ERYC Councillor to have Humberside Police serve a Harassment Warning on hugely popular fellow Councillor and campaigner Andy STRANGEWAY [...]

July 10, 2016 Letters

When Paid Public Servants Lie

When Paid Public Servants Lie an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on how the culture of lies, manipulation of evidence and smearing of innocent members of the public by South Yorkshire Police is far from absent in [...]

May 23, 2016 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner

Safeguarding Shambles In NYCC Schools

Safeguarding Shambles In NYCC Schools an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, lifting the lid on an appalling institutional conspiracy of silence regarding bullying, self-harming and worse. ~~~~~ Throughout the acrimonious debate surrounding the closure of Eskdale School in [...]

April 1, 2016 North Yorkshire County Council

“Jeremy, Giles and Henry”

A Letter to the Editor from our Crime & Parliamentary Affairs correspondent, Tim HICKS, who writes to up-date readers on an astonishing development (astonishing, that is, were it not for a number of similarly astonishing developments in similarly high-profile cases) [...]

February 6, 2016 Letters

“Morally Reprehensible” (The Karen Skipper Murder Investigation)

A Letter to the Editor by regular contributor  Tim HICKS FCA, in response to the “Reprehensible” article by Satish SEKAR, published here on the Enquirer on 31st December 2015. ~~~~~ Dear Sir, I read the North Yorkshire Enquirer article “Reprehensible” [...]

January 10, 2016 Letters