Taxi drivers in Yorkshire include those with criminal records for gun possession, and violence a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Yorkshire Post report:

Taxi drivers with criminal records for gun possession, violence and drugs offences are working in the region, the Yorkshire Post can today reveal.

Applicants with convictions for motoring offences including drink and dangerous driving have also been granted licences, figures released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show.

And there are fears the true scale of criminality among cabbies could be hidden owing to slacker checks on immigrant applicants.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.