Taxi & Private Hire

BTEC Information

1 - Data Protection

Anne Aspinwall - Member

• Data Protection Act
• Registration
• What you need to do
• What it costs
• The rules
• Individuals' rights

2 - Driving Licences and Registration

John Thompson - Member

• How to read and understand categories
• Ages
• DQ3 reply
• What it means evidentially
  

3 - Awkward Customers

Development Network Associates

• How to handle people, including a few hints for dealing with difficult clients.

4 - Evidence

Daniel Training Services

• Facts which are legally admissible
• Exclusionary rules
• Hearsay
• Confessions
• Exclusion of unfair evidence
• Opinion
• Character
• Burden and standard of proof

5 - Police and Criminal Evidence Act

Daniel Training Services

• Dealing with juveniles and mentally handicapped
• Rights to legal advice
• When and how to administer the caution
• Inferences from silence
• How to keep interview records
• Use of interpreters
• Use of evidence produced by a computer

6 & 7 - Spot Checks on Taxis

Phil Waterman

• A basic instruction in the knowledge needed to carry out worthwhile inspections on Hackneys & Private Hire vehicles.

8 - Licensing Conditions

Peter Perkins

• Model conditions
• How conditions can be enforced
• What is, or is not, "reasonable"
• Why conditions are challenged in the Magistrates' Court

9 & 10 Enforcement

Peter Barratt

• Advice & Information on enforcement and how it can affect your actions when carrying out your duties