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Hertfordshire is aiming to raise awareness amongst young people about domestic abuse and what makes a healthy relationship. Young people from schools across Hertfordshire helped to get the message out by writing radio scripts for an advert that was broadcast on radio station Jack…

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A Police Community Support Officer from Tewkesbury is urging local people to come along to a very special event next week. PCSO Sandra Jones has organised what is described as \"a celebration of everything Tewkesbury has to offer\" at Watson Hall, Barton Street between 10.30am and 1.30pm next…

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Just found this ten minute article written by Donald Braman of The Atlantic who investigates the connection or lack of one between aggressive stop and search tactics of the New York Police Department and crime..... ‘There\'s no good evidence that the invasive policing strategy brought down…

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From West Mercia Police.... A new national online advice service to help people protect their mobile phone handsets from thieves has gone live this week. Advice has been published on police.uk with the support of major phone manufacturers Apple, Blackberry, LG, Samsung, Sony, Nokia and Windows…

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This short good news story about some residents in Adobe Acres, South Valley, New Mexico shows us how a community working with the local police service can really turn things around. The Adobe Acres neighbourhood was awash with graffiti and the culprits it seems were the drug users and the other…

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I know this incident reported by our friends in South Yorkshire Police is a little old now, but it does highlight a huge and continuing problem of people not practising some simple crime prevention steps The consequence of not following simple routines is evident from the story – read…

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