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Belsize Village is located in the north west of Camden, one of London's more central Boroughs. I was the police Crime Prevention Design Adviser in Camden for several years and so know the area quite well. So you can imagine my delight when I received a very positive email from the site's…

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Yes, you've read it right and what a novel idea! Members of the community and the Middleton Neighbourhood Policing Team are putting helium balloons through open windows and doors in their area to warn residents of the consequences of leaving their homes insecure. Each balloon has an attached…

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Imagine this: It's late at night and you're in bed watching the TV when you hear someone breaking in downstairs. You quickly ring the police and quite sensibly remain upstairs as you're scared to death fearing the worst. And then you smell the aroma of a baking pie wafting up the stairs! Well,…

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The Year 6 pupils from Edgebury Primary School in Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley have been busy designing car crime prevention posters for the police warning of the dangers of leaving valuables in unattended vehicles, such as Sat Navs, cameras and laptops. The five winning entries…

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There were 115,905 bike thefts recorded by the police in the ‘crime' year 2010/11, 6% up on the previous year, which gives us 318 bike thefts a day! The Office for National Statistics states that ‘it is too early to say whether this represents an emerging upward trend as the longer…

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Open resource websites like this one obviously need to be found to be of any use, which is sort of stating the obvious! Fortunately we're doing very well indeed and we're managing to achieve a Google ranking page 1 and 2 for lots of our content. A great deal of this success is due to the…

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