howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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First I have heard about it.
Dover District Council
28 mins ·
We are starting a day of multi agency engagement with people in Dover Town Centre - come out and have a chat with the DDC environmental protection, waste and community teams. Partner agencies represented include Kent Police; Kent Fire & Rescue; KCC Trading Standards, Community Wardens, and School Liaison; Home Office (Border Force); Kent Community Health; Department for Work & Pensions.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Photos of the star studded event courtesy of DDC.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Why do they always hold these things in the quietest part of town and without as far as I know advance notice.
Personally I would prefer to see those police walking around the town or set up in supermarket carparks.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I suspect that not telling people in advance might to protect the Deputy Chief Constable from a highly dissatisfied public who would have taken the chance to berate him.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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First I have heard of this
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:I suspect that not telling people in advance might to protect the Deputy Chief Constable from a highly dissatisfied public who would have taken the chance to berate him.
Do you mean he was here in Dover? He must have got lost if he was.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Usual lack of organisation
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Went through Market Square a while back but didn't bother approaching the DCC. What can he say other than the usual stuff "I'm hear to listen", "zero tolerance", "the public have a right to (fill in the rest)" then he will be off to another town tomorrow to spout the same guff.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yeah I saw them and had a chat.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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1st picture of howards, the old boy in the hat is a nieghbour of mine. I see turbo is gob smacked lol.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Curiouser and curiouser it transpires that most of our district councillors only found out about this today on social media despite it being a DDC event.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Community engagement DDC style, setting the trend!
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Arte et Marte
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Oh dear
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Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
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Apparently DDC put out a statement saying they were unable to publicise the event because of ongoing" enforcement activities". I've given this some thought and have absolutely no idea what this means.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Paul, maybe they forgot to 'enforce' someone to tell everyone about this, it is not the sort of thing that gets arranged overnight.
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
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DDC are more secretive then the Masons. I went to a Scrutiny at the Ivory Towers in Nov 2017.. still waiting for then to contact me to help with parking where I live.. local councillor still on their case..
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
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Shame it happened during the week when most people are working. Missed opportunity again by DCC.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,137
'About 50 people from a range of agencies massed into Dover town centre yesterday to focus on problems in the area'.
On the plus side if each of them bought a Mars bar and a coffee it must have doubled the turnover for High Street shops.....................
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/broad-brush-194868/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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