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This is interesting news for the UK's Neighbourhood Watch groups and associations. On October 23 -24 in Vienna a founding conference took place to launch the European Neighbourhood Watch Association (EUNWA). The EUNWA's purpose is to act as umbrella organization for neighbourhood watch…

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On 3 November I posted a news story about a new website called 'Help for Victims', which has been designed to help victims of and witnesses to crime

This is what I said.....

'The Help for…

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A bit later than planned, Newsletter 13 will be out on Monday and, for info, Number 14 will be out just before Xmas In this issue, which marks our 1 millionth page view: The regular progress report about the site Update on new links and medals awarded to our Partners Firework legislation and…

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The BBC reported today that the missing people charity ‘Missing People' have joined forces with Royal Mail and will be sending alerts about missing vulnerable people to their 124,000 postal workers. Photos and descriptions of missing children and vulnerable adults will be sent to the…

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A sobering list of the 50 most violent cities in the world is brought to you by Business insider UK. Bottom of the list (the ‘good' end) is Valencia, Venezuela, which had 30.04 homicides per 100,000 residents. The worst city in the US is Detroit with 46.99 per 100,000, but even worse are…

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