Very interesting thank you Kevin. I dictated my statement just now, am to be sent a Braille transcript. -----Original message----- From: Kevin Lloyd Sent: 22/02/2012, 12:37 pm To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessable Format - Not Typical for This List I've given a video recorded statement and had no issue with doing so. I was picked up from work by 3 PC's in a police van which caused a bit of a stir with a few hundred colleagues looking on from the office windows but the police explained everything in detail around the procedure and it was recorded in a small, comfortable room at a local community police station. It ran at my pace and the questioning was formal but relaxed so it wasn't like an interrogation. Regards. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Barry Toner" <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:17 AM Subject: [access-uk] Accessable Format - Not Typical for This List > hi Barry and All > Doubtless Barry will in his role of Moderator inform me if this is > inappropriate for this list. I was mugged last Friday and as a blind > person with a guide dog, the Police, to be fair, have been extremely > supportive and have visited me many times. I must have had 6 or more > Police at my home and spoken to at least 3 different ones on the phone. > > Now with regard to accessable format which is what the list is all about. > The Police do indeed have a raised Crest and Braille on their ID but our > friendly community police do not. I will not let anyone in without ID so > this is a wee bit difficult re community police. I am now told that they > will look in to tactile/braille ID. That issue addressed, now there is > the question of me giving a Statement. I was contacted yesterday by a > member of the Police and he said his colleague would be contacting me > today re video etc. True enough she contacted me this morning and said > she would like to get me down to Holburn Police Station to make a video. > I asked enquiringly, a video! and she said yes, for people like you, a > little embarrased in her voice, we do a video, it seems the best and only > way when you cannot, then hesitation, write!!! I said I would be > declining the video and she could come and visit me at my home. She was a > bit taken aback I have to say and said she would have to have a word with > her Sargent. She then called back and said she would come this afternoon. > I have been here before when Neela my guide dog was attacked and I > dictated a statement which the DC wrote down word for word and read it > back to me. He said it had to be done that way as they had special forms > etc etc. Now any thoughts, should there be a template produced for people > whose only method of writing is via a keyboard? What are people's thoughts > on this one? Sorry Barry if it is all inappropriate for the list. If it > is, I will not speak of it again on list. > > Eleanor > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq