Agenda item - Chair's Communications

            Suspensions and Revocations

3.1             The Chair explained that since the last meeting of the Committee, officers of the Hackney Carriage Office had:

Suspended one driver on medical grounds;

One private hire driver had received a simple caution for carrying passengers without a prior booking;

Refused one application for a licence due to a conviction indecent assault on a female;

Refused one application on medical grounds; and

In addition 8 drivers had received formal warnings.

Disclosure and Barring Service

3.2       The Chair went on also explained that from 17 June the arrangements for DBS (formally CRB) checks were set to change, the Council would no longer receive a copy of driver checks.

To enable officers to consider if a driver was a fit and proper to hold a licence from 1 October drivers would be required to produce a valid DBS certificate before a licence could be issued.

Where a DBS check was required prior to 1 October officers could at their discretion issue an 8 week licence pending the issue of the DBS certificate.

3.3       RESOLVED – That the position be noted.