I just had to post up this forum topic on Mumsnet, where our website has been cited as a place to go for advice (38 referrals yesterday and still coming in). That in itself is great, but even though the contributors to this topic have been given a reliable source of information, which more than…

With Halloween happening this Friday and with this website's audience being much bigger on a Monday than any other day of the week I thought it would be sensible to repeat some guidance I gave earlier from our friends in Hampshire Constabulary – witch you'll find below (get it?) A couple…

Great news! Neil Henson's latest (edited) chapter from his book ‘Who Shares Your Problem' is now available to read on this website. ‘Thinking creatively' is the fourth article from Neil and the even better news is that we'll be publishing the last four chapters of his book right…

With most police services warning that earlier darker nights (brought about by our regular clock change at this time of year) will lead to a spike in crime one has to ask what our government are doing about it. Not a lot at the moment it seems from the Wikipedia page on the subject. Here's an…

The Designing out Crime Association (DOCA) are holding their next conference at Brighton Town Hall on 20 November starting at 09:45 hrs. Unfortunately I will not be able to be there this time but if you are interested in this important area of crime prevention you might like to attend. I've just…

Can\'t you tell that the day is shortening and this weekend we\'ll also see the clocks go back to make it even darker – earlier (I wish they wouldn't do that!) I can tell, because the number of people who complete our Home Security Survey goes up at this time of year. Why is this? It's…