(a)

considered the report from the Strategic Director for People;

(b)

heard from the Police (both written and verbal evidence) as follows:

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that the current Premises Licence Holders (PLH) have held the licence for 19 months;

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evidence detailing contact with the premises over the last 15 months from 10/12/12 – 11/3/14 showing that the operation of the premises had fallen below the expected standard;

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an outline of offences that have occurred within and outside the premises. This information mainly detailed the problems that have arisen with the Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) not being able to download CCTV footage which has led to a PCSO having to attend and download the information. It was further confirmed that the DPS had been unable to actually show the footage when requested to;

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other information was provided which indicating that the DPS had not been cooperative with the police when they were seeking evidence in relation to incidents on the premises and an example of such an incident was presented in witness statements from PC Middleton;

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there had been a period between 12/2/14 and 21/3/14 where the CCTV had not been working properly and a section 19 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 notice had been served to ensure the fault was corrected. The CCTV had been repaired. On checking on the 21/3/14 it was confirmed that the CCTV was then working and capable of being replayed back to the 21/2/14;

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evidence was submitted that there had been intoxicated persons drinking within the bar area on occasions when the police visited within the 15 month period;

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the police licensing team had taken steps to draw the problems to the attention of the DPS and the PLH by way of meetings and letters however there had been no real improvement save that the CCTV had eventually been repaired;

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the police submitted that the DPS had demonstrated by her actions that she did not wish to cooperate or engage with them which undermines the crime prevention licensing objective and that she should therefore be removed from the licence. As a DPS she was reluctant to engage and had not been cooperative during Police Licensing meetings. A DPS should be cooperative and assist the Police;

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in addition in light of the problems experienced they considered that further conditions were necessary on the licence to promote the crime prevention licensing objective and provided a list of suggested conditions;

(c)

heard from the Premises Licence Holder that:

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he had been a licensee for 15 years and the DPS had been a licensee for two years;

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the DPS felt that she was being victimised because she had refused to give a witness statement in relation to a racist incident which had occurred on the 21 January 2014. She had not given a statement because she hadn’t seen anything;

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the CCTV system they use is capable of storing images for up to six months;

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their CCTV system can only be downloaded onto CD-Rs and not  ...  view the full minutes text for item 82.