An interesting and, for some, a controversial piece in the Northern Echo today concerning our friends in Durham Constabulary and their new crime prevention scheme called ‘Checkpoint' This is how it starts: Criminals will be given the chance to dodge court as part of a \"world first\"…

The Urban Dictionary informs us that Mad Friday is the last Friday before Christmas, unless Christmas Day falls on a Saturday when Mad Friday will occur one week before Christmas Eve. You might want to visit the site for the rest of the definition! The day is described as ‘mad' simply…

Over the past year we've been receiving referrals from Cambridge Constabulary's Southcambcops.org website (a WordPress.com website). In effect this is a sort of newsletter, which includes crime prevention advice, appeals for information and news items affecting the area of south Cambs (Cambourne,…

This is just to let you know that I have started to put together a whole new section for this website to help business owners with their building security. In the main tab ‘Other Crime Prevention' you'll now see a new heading entitled ‘Commercial Premises and Security' and below…

Press release from Cumbria Police The following information is important, wherever you might live, as this type of con has been going on for donkey's years! Start Police in Eden are investigating a number of incidents of door to door selling, where people call at homes claiming to either be…

I was watching Sky News this morning and got somewhat steamed up about a newspaper article suggesting that the bathroom might be the safest place to hide your stuff from burglars. The article concerned an experiment conducted by Dr Claire Nee of Portsmouth University who was investigating how…