Imagine coming home from work to discover that someone has broken into your home and stolen your stuff. What would be your immediate response after having reported the matter to police and spoken with your family, friends and neighbours? My wife and I hear about burglary quite often during the…

I've recently returned from Newquay in Cornwall where Julia and I have been looking around the town for areas where we might like to live when we move down there next year. One important consideration for us is (naturally) the distribution of crime in the area and so I've been looking at the…

Here are the main points from the latest Crime bulletin from the Office for National Statistics (Published 19 October) with a couple of notes added to highlight the fact that there have been genuine increases in the theft category of offences. Main Points Official statistics cannot provide a…

Some of you may have read one of my recent articles where I mentioned that I had lost some of the police services that used to link to my website. This is because lots of our police services have discontinued their own websites and have instead moved onto a national police website platform to save…

A new comprehensive guide for parents and young people dealing with online safety is brought to you by Tutora.co.uk. The information is presented to you across eight chapters and covers subjects such as Online Gaming Safety, CyberBullying and Social Media Safety. Well worth a read and a share.…

Ben and I are happy to announce that 7,000 people have now completed our free and confidential home security survey. Thank you to all of you who've had a go and we hope that the experience of completing it and the security report that is generated were what you were looking for – 70% tell us…