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.

Every few weeks I check the numbers of referrals I've received from my reciprocally linking websites. These are the sites that show a link to The Crime Prevention Website from one of their pages and they're listed on my Partners page here. I award medals to my linking sites partly for a bit of…

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Newsletter Number 10 is being sent to subscribers today at 11:00. If you don't see it in your inbox please check your spam, especially if you're a new subscriber. This issue brings news of record breaking visitor numbers, new advice pages added to the site and some interesting crime prevention…

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Today there have been a few tweets about this rural crime prevention video produced by the East Midlands Regional Police Forces. It was published in December 2012 and I think it's one of the best I've seen on the subject. The video concentrates on Farm Crime and since my wife's family are…

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I take a news feed from West Mercia Police via ‘Blogtrottr’.  I do this because the type of crime that emanates from the West Mercia Police area, which is home to several cities and towns and lots of villages, reflects what is going on throughout the UK.  I also know the…

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It was interesting to find this on-line news video concerning a spate of ‘door-knocking' burglaries in Houston, not just because the M.O.s in Houston, Texas are the same as used in Teddington, but because the video introduces the viewer to the police Crime Prevention Officer (or…

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West Mercia Police have confirmed that efforts to tackle a rise in thefts of catalytic converters in the Malvern area has seen a significant reduction in the number of offences taking place. Catalytic converters are stolen from vehicles due to the value of the precious metals they contain, such as…

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