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Crime Reduction Officer, Sergeant Andy Gregory of the West Midlands Police, is currently starring in a video available on You Tube. In the short film Andy talks about several important features relating to garden security, but I particular like his attention to an age-old problem concerning the…

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It’s Monday morning and I’ve just come across this article in last Friday’s (on-line) The…

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Thanks to our friends at Thames Valley Police for the following article: Urban areas continue to have ‘substantially' higher rates of crime than their rural counterparts, figures suggest. While the rates of all types of offences in England have maintained a decline since 2005/06,data…

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West Midlands Police have launched a great new website called Safer Students to assist those studying in the region.  There’s a lot of really useful information on the site and if you’re…

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Police in Shropshire today released this account of an attempted theft in Bridgnorth and acts as a timely reminder to us all to take care of handbags (and wallets) and when withdrawing cash. The incident occurred in the Co-Operative store on Mill Street on Monday 5 August. At around 3.30pm, an…

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The County of Buckinghamshire is by a long way the biggest user of our on-line, anonymous Home Security Survey application and so we're delighted that we have a new reciprocal link in place with the Wycombe District Neighbourhood Watch Association (WDNWA); a link up that will help maintain the…

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