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Fancy a trip down memory lane?  I thought it might be fun to link to a few of the old government Public Information Films (PIFs) about crime and safety.

According to Wikipedia PIFs were supplied…

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On 9th May 2013 the Office for National Statistics released their findings from additional analyses based on the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales and crimes recorded by the police covering different aspects of property crime. This release focuses on Mobile Phone theft, Plastic Card fraud…

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The following news item is from Action Fraud, and has been kindly forwarded to us by Graham Houghton, a friend of The Crime Prevention Website. The charity Crimestoppers has launched a Charity Fraud Line service to take information about charity fraud. Charity fraud currently defrauds registered…

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I’ve been asked by several visitors who have carried out the Home Security Survey on the Crime Prevention Website whether I could offer some further guidance as to…

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I was doing my usual research into crime news stories this morning when I came across this interesting and somewhat depressing YouTube video highlighting the worst parts of Colchester town centre (Essex, England). The four minute video was uploaded 5 days ago by town centre resident Terry Earl and…

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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has released their latest Annual Review (2012-2013) & Centre Plan (2013-2014) report, which shows great progress by this important organisation.

Their key performance…

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