A number of police services across England and Wales have been moving their websites onto a new national platform, presumably as a cost-saving exercise. Unfortunately this has meant me losing a couple of police website links, which I am trying to rectify. Hampshire Constabulary's new website is a…

It seems that this latest method of robbery and snatch theft is being reported by the media much more often these days. The information below has been taken from the Met Police Website and I've followed this up with a few observations and crime prevention recommendations: The Met Police report…

I was at my local supermarket this morning getting in the weekly gross when I spied a lady in some distress in the car park. I walked over to her and asked her what the matter was. She explained to me that someone had smashed the side window and nicked her phone, which she'd accidentally left in…

Here are the Main Points of this quarter's crime data. I have highlighted a number of the points, including the fact that there does appear to be a small increase in burglary and robbery. Previously I had pointed out that falls in burglary in particular had begun to slow and flatten out. It seems…

After a weekend visit to Bath, a trip down to the canal festival at Little Venice on Sunday and other jolly bank holiday stuff on Monday I'm now back home and reading through my emails. I got a very nice message from the Ickenham Neighbourhood Watch people thanking me for my talk last week and…

I'm off up the road in about an hour to give a talk to the good people of the Ickenham Neighbourhood Watch Group (Borough of Hillingdon in West London). I'm really looking forward to it. This time I'll be talking about the history of crime prevention in the police, my Home Security Survey (and…