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Thanks to Thames Valley Police for the following: The Ministry of Justice is issuing a warning to the public after an increase in scams where consumers are telephoned or emailed by people falsely claiming to be from the Ministry of Justice. Scammers trick members of the public by suggesting to…

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I think my local area is suffering a mini crime boom at the moment. A cannabis factory shut down and now three night-time burglaries around my local neighbourhood - and all in one week! 

Of the three burglaries, one was through an open window, but two were committed by forcing the…

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There was a bit of a commotion near my home in West London this week as the local police executed a warrant at a large house that was being used to grow cannabis and, according to police sources, they seized about £38,000 worth of growing and processed weed along with a couple of suspects…

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I think this is the first book about the history of British policiing I've read without getting miffed about something along the way and when Clive Emsley gets to the late 1970s (when I joined up) I thought he must have been sitting in the same canteen as me eating a full fry-up! Clive captures…

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I recently got back from a short trip to the States(Las Vegas) and so I was keen to see how this site was doing. As I\'ve said before, a website like this ain\'t worth the electricity if nobody is going to visit and use it and so I\'m pleased to report that things are going pretty well! (I…

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Although this application has been on the Secured by Design (SBD) website for quite a while I picked up a copy of this excellent application at the Designing out Crime meeting last week.  The application helps anyone involved…

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