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Thanks to Gary Cordner of Modern Policing for pointing me to this interesting article concerning the renewal of some of Detroit's neighbourhoods. As Gordon says, it mentions that community engagement is essential for creating public order, considering that the police department there is still…

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From August, officers and Neighbourhood Watch volunteers across the county will visit people living close to the scenes of break-ins within days of the crime to warn them about what has happened, show them how they can make sure their home is secure and gather information that could help catch…

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Almost 6% of our visitors are referred from other websites and they're very important to us! In contrast to visitors that find us via Google or some other search engine they read twice as many pages and are on the site three times longer! On the TCPW's Partners page we list our known 186…

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We're really pleased to inform you that we've just gone over half a million visits since we launched the site on 7th April 2012! Naturally our visitor numbers started out pretty low but have slowly built up over the past two years to over a thousand a day! Encouragingly, page visits have…

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Press release from Cumbria Police Following a recent investigation into a deer poaching incident, Cumbria Police want to highlight the potential consequences of being involved in this type of criminal activity. Poaching of game, fish, and hare, is recognised as a national problem which has led to…

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The BBC News is currently broadcasting reports of a 5.2% rise in rural crime for last year.  The data has been collected by NFU Mutual, which estimates that rural crime cost the rural economy £44.5m in 2013, up from £42.4m in 2012. This reverses the 19.7% fall from 2011 to 2012.…

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