As you may know this website provides you with the opportunity to carry out a DIY security check of your home using our Home Security Survey application (click on the green tab at the top of the page). It's free, anonymous and confidential and quite fun to do, especially when you are sent the…

Shortly before Sunday 29th October at 2am this year I shall be making the usual announcement that the clocks will be ‘falling back' by one hour at that time to resume Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and that people should be making sure they adjust the timers for their domestic security lighting…

It's great to see that Great Harwood Neighbourhood Watch in Lancashire has linked up with The Crime Prevention Website; a police area that has been very supportive indeed. In fact I wrote a couple of crime prevention documents for Lancashire police last year, which I am pleased to see are still…

As part of an ongoing operation called ‘Mya' Bedfordshire Police recently carried out an inspection of many hundreds of cars parked in areas of the county that had been identified as being more vulnerable to ‘theft from vehicle' offences. The seven areas focussed upon were: Grovebury,…

The latest crime statistics were released today, which includes the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and the police recorded crime. Here are the main points: Excluding the new Experimental Statistics on fraud and computer misuse, latest estimates from the Crime Survey…

In answer to an email I received yesterday asking if I knew why the police were not chasing moped robbers ‘as a matter of course', here's what I've found out: In law the police service and the individual police officer are accountable for their actions. In practice this means if a person…