Rejected petition: Review the National Police Chiefs Council's policy on escorting community events
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The NPCC has created a policy which restricts police officers providing vehicular escorts to certain events, without considering the implications for local, long-standing events. The NPCC is governed by the Metropolitan Police so comes under the Home Office and therefore Parliament's jurisdiction.
The Edinburgh Taxi Outing has been operating since 1947 to take children with special needs on a day out. Taxi drivers give up their time to decorate their taxis and a convoy of about 70 taxis go through Edinburgh, supported by Police Scotland's motorcycle unit. They monitor the junctions to allow the whole convoy to proceed as one unit. The new policy means we would need to sit in the normal congested traffic which would add about an hour to the journey making it challenging for the children
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
NPCC guidance is not something which the UK Government or Parliament is responsible for.
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