On 9th May 2013 the Office for National Statistics released their findings from additional analyses based on the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales and crimes recorded by the police covering different aspects of property crime. This release focuses on Mobile Phone theft, Plastic Card fraud…

The following news item is from Action Fraud, and has been kindly forwarded to us by Graham Houghton, a friend of The Crime Prevention Website. The charity Crimestoppers has launched a Charity Fraud Line service to take information about charity fraud. Charity fraud currently defrauds registered…

I’ve been asked by several visitors who have carried out the Home Security Survey on the Crime Prevention Website whether I could offer some further guidance as to…

I was doing my usual research into crime news stories this morning when I came across this interesting and somewhat depressing YouTube video highlighting the worst parts of Colchester town centre (Essex, England). The four minute video was uploaded 5 days ago by town centre resident Terry Earl and…

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has released their latest Annual Review (2012-2013) & Centre Plan (2013-2014) report, which shows great progress by this important organisation.

Their key performance…

A progress bulletin... The Crime Prevention Website continues to go from strength to strength and by the end of this week the site will have reached the milestone of 100k visits since launch on 7th April last year. This is only part of the picture though, because the number of visits each week has…