Europe's largest street festival, The Notting Hill Carnival, runs from Saturday 23 August through to late on Monday 25. If you go you'll be joining the million or so other visitors and you'll have a great time! As usual there'll be a lot of police on duty at the event, both in uniform and in…

Hampshire police press release Forces across the continent are currently participating in a campaign to highlight the devastating effect excessive or inappropriate speed can have on the safety of road users. Today, officers across the Southern Regional Safety Camera Group area will be carrying…

The Criminal Justice Statistics quarterly update to March 2014 have recently been released and here are the key findings: Total number of individuals (which includes people and companies) dealt with formally by the CJS in England and Wales has been declining since 2007. It is now at a record low…

For those of you who are interested in crimes against business please take a look at the link below to review the tables of data from the 2013 Commercial Victimisation Survey. My attention was drawn particularly to ‘Section 3 Crime Prevention', which reveals some useful information about…

Last night somebody in Worcestershire took the brave decision to carry out our Home Security Survey and became the three thousandth person to do so since we launched the website. No prizes were awarded, but they did get their free security report and risk assessment score. Their score put them in…

An eagle-eyed team of officers chased down a bike thief as the policing operation for last Saturday\'s Ride London event proved a great success. The three officers from the Met\'s Cycle Task Force, part of the Safer Transport Command, were tasked with plain clothes patrols within central…