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Taxi driver banned after aggressive behaviour towards female enforcement officer



A taxi driver whose aggressive behaviour left a female licensing enforcement officer feeling intimidated and fearful has had his licence revoked.

The decision to cancel the licence of Danny King, of Birch Road, Balderton, was initially taken by Newark and Sherwood District Council's general purposes sub-committee after a hearing in which he was accused of obstruction, harassment and intimidation as well as failing to comply with the council's taxi licensing policy.

The 53-year-old appealed the sub-committee's conclusion but Nottingham Magistrates' Court upheld the council's decision and awarded the council costs of £886.

The incident that led to the licence being revoked occurred in August 2015 when the officer was performing a routine inspection of taxis parked in Lincoln Street, outside Newark North Gate station.

She carried out an inspection and noted that the rear plate identifying the vehicle as a licensed hackney carriage was missing. Mr King declined to hand her his hackney carriage badge and accused the inspector of being racist.

The inspector stated that she then checked the tyres and found the rear tyres to be below the council requirement of 2mm tread depth. She also noted that Mr King's taxi was not displaying the required No Smoking signs.

Mr King then refused to open the boot so that she could check whether he had a suitable spare tyre, a first aid kit, a fire extinguisher and a warning triangle.

When the inspector went to leave, Mr King stood in the way of her car door so that she could not initially open it and used his leg to prevent her from closing the door.

In court Mr King denied the allegations against him in their entirety but the magistrates found his evidence inconsistent and they upheld the district council's decision that Mr King was not a fit and proper person to hold a hackney carriage and private hire licence.

Alan Batty, business manager for environmental health at Newark and Sherwood District Council, said: "This case sends an important message to the taxi community that the council is expecting a good standard of conduct from taxi drivers.

"We will not tolerate bad behaviour or harassment of our inspectors as they carry out the job that they are employed to do, safeguarding the public and ensuring that they can trust in local licensed taxi drivers and their vehicles."


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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Mr King then refused to open the boot so that she could check whether he had a suitable spare tyre, a first aid kit a fire extinguisher and a warning triangle

i have none of these , don't need them

Typical knob head cabby.

Rules are for others not themselves.

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IDFIMH

Ex Army or Marines no doubt their always the thickest

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I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN NOBODY'S SUBJECT http://www.republic.org.u

F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

never heard of fire extinguishers not being required

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

are you a fireman?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Join the NATIONAL TAXI ASSOCIATION and you will be made aware of items of that nature.

Not required in Sefton......

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Got rid of the fire extinguisher requirement here years ago.

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Chris The Fish

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it used to be, but the local fire brigade told the council that if any fires occur , the driver must not try & tackle it ( not trained & health & safety issues ) so its not a requirement anymore , i only found this out when i got my doblo tested & left the f/e in the spare wheel well of the xtype, came home & told my mate about it feeling i was a bit lucky to pass then he told me about this, although it still says its required on the council website , i passed though

is he ever correct on anything tbh ?

Ex navy here , thick as a whale omelette

Feeling intimidated and fearful ! Is that not what a lot of troublesome customers make you feel like ? Can't argue or get in a scuffle with cusomers, because Licensing will always side with the customer. Recently I was told that even if your customer is drunk and abusive ! You cannot just dump him anywhere as he is vulnerable ! SO !!!! You take his/her verbal & physical abuse and drop them somewhere safe for them ?? Wtf ! Get abused and still have a duty of care to them ! Remember not to lock them in and drive to the police Station - you will be in trouble for detaining them and keeping them against their wishes. This driver was in the wrong with the LO - but when is Licensing ever on the side of the driver ? We take crap from all sides, especially Licensing ! They get no pity from me - it might educate the LO concerned about the routine [edited by admin] we deal eith !

theres a surprise aint called Jimbo is it

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

i think you probably could, as for detaining them on the way to to cop shop, just unlock the doors on arrival, who are the police going to believe? a upstanding pillar of the community who is sober ( ie me ) or some pi$$ed up knacker who is ranting & raving ? just deny they were locked,the other alternative, drive up a back lane with no cctv & drag the knacker out , job done