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Many of our house burglaries happen unnecessarily, because the householder has forgotten to lock the multi-point locking front door properly. Let me explain..... For a long time there has been a debate among crime prevention practitioners about whether these multi-point locks should have a solid…

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I've just come across this interesting crime prevention strategy on the National Crime Prevention Council's website (USA). I won't regurgitate the whole strategy page, but in essence it focuses on taking at-risk youths off the street, turning them away from a life of crime and giving them…

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It's always good to see the police running initiatives to help out university students as they begin their new year, especially the freshers for whom it may be the first time staying away from home. This time it's the turn of Coventry's students to receive some help from the neighbourhood…

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Great news! Bedfordshire Police have placed a link to this site from the crime reduction page of their website. This new link comes after I wrote to Bedfordshire's Chief Constables back in June suggesting that a reciprocal link might be beneficial to both our websites and our visitors. The link…

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Great idea promoting crime prevention LANCASHIREConstabulary has joined forces with the ground-breaking national anti-knife crime campaign ‘Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife', as the force's knife amnesty comes to an end. Since the amnesty began at the end of August, more than 800 knives…

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