Crime prevention news is a little hard to find today, so I thought you might like to see this little gem... Police in Bangalore, in the Indian State of Karnataka, are using life-size, cardboard cut-out cops to prevent motorists from committing traffic offences. This is not new of course and you…

April's Newsletter will be sent out to subscribers on or just after 7th April. This is a special time for us at The Crime Prevention Website, because it marks our first year of operation after we launched on 7th April 2012 With your help the website has progressed to be one of the most viewed of…

In the ‘you couldn’t make it up’ news bucket today is this article from New Straits Times Kuala Lumpur (It includes a few edits and my comments, you may wish to…

Lack of training on the warning signs identified as barrier to alerting authorities Girls as young as four years old are at increased risk of ritual mutilation because teachers are not trained to deal with this type of child abuse, the NSPCC warns. Some school children in Britain are forced by…

Please re-tweet Some of you lucky people are going to be taking a holiday flight out of the frozen wastes of the UK this week to sunnier climes and I thought it timely to make mention of the Holiday Security Checklist on this website. Most homes that are burgled are unoccupied and so the…

According to this news article in the North West Evening Mail last Friday, which I missed due to being out, the police in Barrow, Cumbria are pulling their hair out…