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Friends of this website, It’s Mine Technology, recently submitted a paper to the Justice Select Committee arguing for a more evidenced based approach to crime prevention, combining effective technologies…

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Suzy Lamplugh Trust and Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network (England and Wales) are running a survey until 5pm Friday 1st November to gather your thoughts on street lighting. I would encourage you to take the survey which takes about 5 minutes or so. It says that the survey will be coupled…

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‘In Focus - Anti-social Behaviour', the Association of Chief Police Officers' second national awareness campaign, was launched on Monday this week ahead of Halloween on October 31 and Guy Fawkes' Night on November 5. I've reproduced the rather long press release in full, because it…

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In the last three weeks I've noticed a marked increase in the number of Scottish people taking the Home Security Survey on this website. This is great news! So far I only have one link in place with a Scottish organisation and I don't think this link would have generated this much…

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I was interviewed on BBC Radio Sussex’s breakfast programme this morning about thefts from vehicles after Sussex police reported a huge spike in the same in areas of West Sussex. There’s a good summary of the problem on-line in the Continue reading…

All daily records were broken in one go on this website yesterday after the worst storm since the ‘Great Storm of '87'! Total number of visits: 1,170 Unique visits: 1,097 Page views: 2,215 Most visited page: Garden Boundaries, Fences and Defensible Plants - 35% of all visits Whilst…

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