Until last year Cumbria police were one of those police services that linked to the Crime Prevention Website. Then they changed their policy about linking to external sites like mine and launched an all new look version of their own website. I wrote to them about the loss of the link and got no…

This morning I was in a stationary queue of traffic in the Uxbridge Road Hayes waiting to turn right at the Grapes Public House when I noticed a clean and tidy fellow, with a crutch, limping along the central reservation towards me. As he limped and winsed painfully past each car he knocked on the…

The following message has been sent by the UK\'s Action Fraud Students are being recruited, sometimes unwittingly, as ‘mules' by criminals to transfer illegally obtained money between different bank accounts. What is a money mule? A money mule is someone who is recruited by criminals to…

Please find below the latest message from Stephen Armson-Smith, the Crime Prevention Officer for Braintree and Uttlesford in Essex. This time Steve is talking to us about theft of heating oil and getting ready for the longer darker evenings... Heating Oil It's this time of year that many of you…

It's funny how sheds keep coming up this summer. I was visiting a client in North London last week, offering them some home security advice, when I came across something that I've seen all too often. It's to do with the way that people fit padbolts to their sheds and gates. My clients had…

This morning I updated this website's list of police services and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC). For each police service you'll find a link to their news and advice pages and then one to the PCC's home page. This is the third time I've had to do this in the past 15 months owing to…