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Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg will be discussing rural crime and policing issues on the opening morning of the Devon County Show 2013 (10am – 11am Thursday May 16th) He will join Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and the County Chairman of the Devon Young farmers, Paul Glanvill, for an…

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Have you entered our free prize draw yet? Just go to our competition page to find out how to enter and get up to four chances to win a £500 voucher towards a safe, kindly donated by our friends at TotalSafes.co.uk No more hiding stuff in the socks drawer or in the back of the fridge or…

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(Please Re-tweet) POLICE in Barrow, Cumbria are advising residents to be on the lookout for cold calling traders who are leafleting and calling at homes offering to buy jewellery. Local police have said that they've received a number of calls from concerned residents in Barrow, Dalton, Ulverston…

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Thanks to Michael Clare of Thames Valley Police for bringing this important news to our attention.

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 9 May 2013.

A raft of measures to create new and simpler powers to tackle anti-social…

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I had a really enjoyable day yesterday attending and speaking at a Met Police crime prevention conference held at the Met’s training facilities at Peel Centre (Hendon). (Hence no news items posted yesterday!)

The conference was attended by the senior police management teams of half…

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Why do innocent children turn into serial killers? A new book by Adrian Raine,aBritish psychologist currently at the Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, has just published a new book investigating why some innocent children grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad…

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