The Crime Prevention Website

The latest crime prevention and home security news and comment from The Crime Prevention Website.  Feel free to add your comment to the posts and if you are a member of the police service or a Neighbourhood Watch and would like us to highlight something you're up to in the world of crime prevention and home security do please get in touch using Contact.

Thirty one year-old convicted robber, Daryl Keener, just got sentenced to 1,256 years imprisonment by District Judge David S Prince for a series of eight bank robberies. Keener had earlier been released from prison after serving time for another bank robbery in 2003. As a consequence of this and…

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I've just got back from a three day break away from the website and have true story to tell. My wife and I stayed in a ‘budget' hotel in Cheltenham and when I say “budget” I really do mean all the negative connotations that word conjures up. I've stayed in some rough places…

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We're very pleased to have linked up with our first Neighbourhood Watch scheme in Kent! Oxford Road Area Neighbourhood Watch provides a regular and interesting newsletter and some really useful guidance pages for its Co-ordinators (where our link is). It seems that this guidance is to be shared…

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A pilot project involving a group of young volunteers aged from 10 to 19 has been launched to help reduce the amount of crime in the area. It is being organised by the town's Youth Offending Team and volunteers fromHoly Family Catholic PrimarySchool are taking part, as well as some older…

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We're really pleased to have linked up with a brand new Neighbourhood Watch organisation in Bristol. The Bristol NHW Network has been set up to give help and support to all Neighbourhood Watch schemes across the City and County of Bristol. Through this website the Network will be able to provide…

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Please take a look at this really interesting initiative from Transforming Local Communities

This is an exciting new scheme that enables volunteers to support victims of anti-social behaviour.  Each local…

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