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A Home Office Statistical Bulletin entitled ‘Police Service Strength', written by Amardeep Dhani, was published on 26th July. It confirms the numbers of police officers, minority ethnic officers, police community support officers, police staff and Special Constables employed by the 43 police…

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Thank you to Peter at the Ascot Community Website in Berkshire for the reciprocal link. This new link is particularly special to us as the news items we send to it are automatically forwarded to lots of other community…

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Will you be hiring a car or driving your own during your holiday in Spain this summer? Then you might want to take a look at this useful guidance produced by our British…

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Thanks to Thames Valley Police for bringing our attention to this news, which when implemented in 2013 should make a positive difference to the metal theft problem we are currently experiencing in this country.

The Scrap Metal Dealers Bill, a Private Member’s Bill introduced by…

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Published 24th July 2012 Baroness Newlove, the Government\'s Champion for Active, Safer Communities, today announced the names often areas across the country [England] that will each be awarded small grants of up to £10,000 to test innovative ideas that will help reduce problem drinking…

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The BBC’s You and Yours programme will be investigating the recent More Th>n report into garden crime tomorrow (See news item here on 24 th July).  

They’ll be interviewing at least one recent victim of garden theft and then I’ll be attempting…

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