Rural Crime and Security is a new Facebook page to provide crime prevention advice to farmers, landowners and the agro-business. The NFU rural crime survey for 2012 indicates that the cost of rural crime to their policy holders was £52.7m last year. This is just the tip of the iceberg and…

Budget cuts have been affecting UK police services for some time now, but it seems that Gardai cutbacks in the Republic of Ireland are at least as bad when it comes to rural policing. The following article by Cormac O'Keefe of the Irish Examiner: Having already braced themselves for the imminent…

Three burglaries took place in Barrow and Ulverston in South Cumbria in the space of just 24 hours mainly because the doors to the residential properties were left insecure. Whilst it would be nice to live in a land where you can leave all your doors and windows open when you go out and not get…

My regular visitors will have noticed that from time to time I post up news of a new organisation that has linked up to us.  Sometimes these are big organisations, like the British Parking Association, or one of the…

Those of you who follow my News page may have caught sight of my 22 Jan article entitled ‘Is Crime Data Important?’ where I pointed out that politicians and those ‘in charge’ of policing (Internationally) regularly get the crime data wrong.  You’ll also have…

6,700 fewer crimes in South Yorkshire during 2012 Shaun Wright, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner today responded to the figures released by the South Yorkshire Police that overall, crime figures for 2012 are 7% down compared with 2011. He said: “This is welcome news and…