Are you behind with your Christmas Shopping? Will you be rushing about on Friday or Saturday like a person possessed? Are you fearful that something might go missing or get stolen? Fear no longer. Just glance over my list of Christmas Shopping Tips before you leave home.…

I recently received the following useful list of tips about van security from Stephen Armson-Smith, the police crime prevention expert covering the Braintree and Uttlesford District in Essex. What Stephen has to say is important for van users everywhere, not just Essex. Stephen's advice: Vans are…

Policing Vision 2025 sets out the future for policing over the next ten years and will shape decisions about how police forces use their resources to keep people safe. It has been developed by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) and the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)…

I suggest this every year and will keep on doing so, because I think it's important. It's been said (Mrs Jones said this to me down at the post office last week) that we don't know our neighbours like we used to back in the good old days. I don't know when these ‘good old days' actually…

Being a retired policeman it's always good to know that I am able to support my former colleagues in their new ventures, so when I received a message from Steve Jones, former Met and Avon and Somerset Police about his new website I was happy to give his site a plug here on my news page. I've also…

Hi All A second message received yesterday was an email from Laura Pennington of BBC One's ‘The One Show' This is what she asked:.... Hi, I work for the BBC One TV programme The One Show. We're looking in to doing a film about ‘car key jamming' and as part of my research I came…