As you know, I publish the occasional press reported news story to highlight the fact that if we don't take precautions to keep hold of our stuff then someone will come along and take it! This time it's a story from the online Derbyshire Times.... (Summarised) Overnight from 7pm on Friday 19th…

Last Thursday we registered our One Millionth Unique Visitor to The Crime Prevention Website! I'd like to have said it was Mrs Smith from Dorking (or wherever) and given her a prize, but I can't, which is a shame. Interestingly, those visitors have read almost two million pages between them,…

Last week our very old Viburnum plicatum shrub gave up the ghost and collapsed in a very large heap acros our garden. The old chap had rotted at the foot of its large trunk and had simply split apart during a night of strong winds. We were away at the time, but my neighbour was woken up by the…

Some of you may have wondered where I've been these last few days since my news page has been somewhat absent of news! Well, at the moment, I'm doing a little work for some residents living in an apartment block in West London. The apartments occupy the upper floors of a mixed development where…

You'd perhaps be surprised to learn that quite a number of locksmiths have links from their websites to The Crime Prevention Website. Most of them are members of the Master Locksmiths Association and I reckon there's about fifty of them around the UK and that number keeps growing. I know about…

Just last week I published an article (sent to me my Essex Police) about the problem of car key burglary and here we are again with yet another one, this time occurring in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. The very short press release from Derbyshire Constabulary says this: A burglar has targeted a home in…