On Friday somebody calling themselves ‘SVS' happened to mention The Crime Prevention Website on one of the Pistonheads.com forums and provided the link. As a consequence we've had an extra 750 visits to the site over the weekend and about 180 Home Security Surveys completed and they're…

Squatting becomes a criminal offence in England and Wales on 1st September 2012. Section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 creates the offence of ‘squatting in a residential building' A person commits an offence if: the person is in a residential…

Here’s my summary of a report I just found on the website of BBC News Wales.

Basically, people in Cardiff who drink so much alcohol that they require medical assistance or become slightly injured as a consequence of drink are going to be taken to a new triage centre at Ebenezer…

We should all know by now that drug, alcohol and gambling addiction can and often does lead to crimes, such as burglary, thefts from vehicles, shoplifting and robbery and although there are no ‘official' figures that can tell us the precise amount of crime committed to fuel an addiction…

This interesting headline appeared on the Home Page of Cumbria’s News and Star

Carlisle’s Local Authority have got to save money in…

As a result of the UK's Door and Hardware Federation's publication of a new Technical Specification for ‘security' letter boxes (TS009:2012) the Letter plates (letter boxes) and mail delivery section on this website has been updated. The Crime Prevention Website's general position on the…