This is shocking on multiple levels.
A Freedom of Information request revealed that 158 individuals granted private hire licences had prior convictions for violent offences. In addition, 61 had drug-related convictions, 36 had drink-driving offences, and 4 had sexual offence convictions.
Overall, the FOI showed that 438 licences were issued to individuals with criminal records in the last year alone.
Further concern arises from reporting by @carolinegall1, which conflates taxi drivers with private hire drivers. These licences were granted to minicab drivers, not licensed taxi drivers - an important distinction that risks diverting attention from what is increasingly being highlighted as a very serious issue.
@TfL@TfLTPH@transportgovuk@LBC@BBCNews
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Labour has finally admitted they believe the rights of illegal migrants are more important than the rights of local people in Epping.
There you have it. Shame on them.
Absolutely unbelievable drone footage from the migrant hotel in Epping.
Look at the resources that are being used to protect the illegals.
They should use these means to protect our borders instead!
RT if agree. #IAmBritish๐ฌ๐ง
๐ฌ๐ง BREAKING: British patriots are currently protesting in Epping, a town in England, after a young girl in the area was repeatedly sexually assaulted by an Illegal Migrant -- just 8 days after he arrived in Britain.
Well done to them! ๐๐๐
Police charge and arrest independent journalists reporting on the police brutality towards concerned locals at the Epping migrant hotel in Essex.
Imagine if the police took this approach with migrant rapistsโฆ
#TwoTier@actualcoverage
Iโve now left the scene, absolute chaos in Epping. This started as a peaceful demonstration with parents, grandparents and school kids, but then the so called โanti fascistsโ turned up in masks and it all kicked off.
A sad day for this area.
These migrant hotels must be closed.
Man gets teeth knocked out by Riot Police.
During last nights protest in Epping over an illegal being charged with two counts of sexual assault against a child, a police officer in riot gear can clearly be seen on a widely circulated video smashing a member of the publics teeth out with a riot shield.
After speaking to an experienced retired police officer, we can say with confidence that the police are out of order. This is an assault on a member of the public by a serving police officer causing actual bodily harm.
The police have strict rules to follow and have to justify using force, they can only use reasonable force which is proportionate to the threat they feel they are up against.
They should always try to de escalate the situation by talking to persons, the man in the video could have been pushed back with the shield to the chest to maintain a safe distance, but to use the shield to strike the man in the mouth is not a reasonable use of force, and not proportionate in the circumstances. Police should only use the shield to protect themselves against violence and not hurty words.
If hurty words get to you that much and you can't control your anger, get out of the police force! The police have picked a side & itโs not the side of the general public.
Wow! Police scum casually run over a patriot protestor in Epping!
Imagine them doing this to a pro-Palestine crowd!
Imagine the political repercussions!
This is disgusting.
Don't know about anyone else, but I'm DEEPLY uncomfortable with the footage from the Epping Hotel protest that appears to show @EssexPoliceUK bussing in counter protestors.
This looks REALLY bad.
We need to demand answers.
Iโm sorry I donโt understand the reasoning of the Leftwaffe & as a Woman how are you STILL standing up for a group of men who have allegedly sexually addicted a child!! This Lady is bloody tremendous, does anyone know her name @daveatherton sheโs fantastic ๐๐ป๐๐ป#Epping
๐ฅ@EssexPoliceUK letโs see you explain WHY you were transporting LEFTWING STINKY activists from Epping train station to the Bell Hotel and then back again in police vehicles?!
A man's daughter was out celebrating the end of her A Levels in Bournemouth, as designated driver she was not drinking.
A man of apparently of Pakistani heritage sexually assaulted her & stole her phone. It seems he is an asylum seeker at the Roundhouse Hotel.
There have been over 300 rapes reported, as many as 80% are unreported in the area.
The @dorsetpolice declined to investigate, hotel security disinterested.
Hat tip @jomickane
Here we go again in Bournemouth, another girl is brutalized and nearly murdered by a filthy beast and the @TheSun calls it "beach Rape".
BEACH 'RAPE' Teenage woman โrapedโ in public toilet on popular UK beach as man, 31, is arrested.
"A MAN" = (an African/ME muslim animal), has been arrested on suspicion of raping a teenage woman in a public toilet on a popular British beach.
The 31-year-old is being held in police custody after cops received a report at around 2am yesterday that a woman in her late teens had been raped in a toilet on Bournemouth Beach in Dorset.
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