Agenda item

To consider the responses and agree the recommendation contained within this report.

This report informed the Committee of the results of a public consultation carried out upon a proposal to introduce licence conditions to control the use of CCTV in hackney carriages and private hire vehicles within Bracknell Forest.

The Committee expressed concern that it was clear from the consultation responses that the respondents had misunderstood the issues being consulted upon and formed the misconception that CCTV was being imposed upon them. The Chief Officer reported that respondents had been contacted to clarify this. The Chairman stated that this was sufficient given that nothing was being imposed by the Council.

In response to Members queries, the Chief Officer reported that it wasn’t just licensed drivers who had been consulted but also passengers and the public. The need for this consultation had arisen from the misuse of CCTV in licensed vehicles. This was exacerbated by the ease by which materials could be published on the internet.

Checking the use of CCTV by licensed drivers would become one of the items on the checklist if a vehicle was pulled over for a spot check or if a complaint was made, this would be investigated.

RESOLVED that the Committee agreed that the licence conditions attached as Annex F to the report be adopted and applied to vehicle, driver and operator licences from 6 October 2016.