Financial Control in NYP #3 by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction UK Police Forces now publish Chief Officers’ expenses, to ensure openness and transparency, and to facilitate public, and media scrutiny. In accordance with this policy, this article is part of a [...]
Top Secret: The NYP Dublin Connection by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction Chief Officers’ expenses are now required to be published, to ensure openness and to facilitate public and media scrutiny. In accordance with this policy, this article is part of a [...]
In a satirical spirit, the North Yorks Enquirer presents the two-hundred-and-sixteenth in a continuing series of so-called “Photoons” – cartoons developed from digital photographs – highlighting the more amusing aspects of current affairs in North Yorkshire and far beyond. Readers [...]
EXPENSES: The Buckingham Palace Connection by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction Following on from my series of articles on Chief Police Officers taxpayer funded trips to exciting tourist destinations all over Europe. This article examines former Deputy Chief Constable Tim Madgwick’s [...]
The ‘PRIVATE EYE’ Collection In recent years, the investigative-journalism of the CORRUPTION BUSTERS – supported by a growing number of researchers, analysts and informants – has drawn the attention of the country’s pre-eminent political exposé magazine PRIVATE EYE. In the [...]
The Amsterdam/Bahrain/Estonia/Copenhagen/Edinburgh & York Connections by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction Following on from my series of articles on Chief Police Officers expenses generally and Chief Constable Winward’s tax payer funded trips to exciting tourist destinations all over Europe: The Helsinki [...]
Police element of Council Tax to rise again by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction I was very grateful to Nigel Ward for bringing this excellent Craven Herald and Pioneer article covering North Yorkshire’s Police Fire & Crime Commissioner (PFCC) Mrs Julia [...]
PFCC Mulligan: The Royal Navy Comparison by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Introduction: Commodore Cooke-Priest: A tale of two services. The NYE readership is both thinking and articulate, and well versed in current affairs. They will all be aware of the case [...]
Regretfully, because of the overwhelming imperative to provide detailed coverage the SBC elections, this article, which should have gone out on the 3rd of May, has been delayed. World Press Freedom Day Friday 3 May by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Remember [...]
Open Letter to PFC Commissioner Mulligan by TIM HICKS ~~~~~ Dear Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner Mulligan, Open Letter concerning Chief Constable Winward charging the cost of her FBI reunion in Helsinki to North Yorkshire Police Further to my article [...]
