I've just been visiting Lancashire Constabulary's new website and I am impressed! It's neat and easy to navigate and (as I always focus in on the advice pages of police sites) I can confirm that this site has a lot of advice to offer. Fortunately for us some of their advice pages include a link…

I've been looking at the political party manifestos for law and order today focussing on crime prevention, victims and the Police and Crime Commissioners. As far as ‘crime prevention' is concerned I was specifically looking for promises about removing the opportunity to commit crime,…

On several occasions over the years we have been asked for permission to copy and use some of our website's material. Most of these requests have come from Neighbourhood Watch groups and the police. The material has usually been reproduced onto a Neighbourhood Watch website or electronic…

For those of you who missed the most recent newsletter, please find it available on our Newsletter page at the link below. This issue celebrates our third completed year of operation. In that time 663,000 people had visited the site and they'd read 1.35 million pages. Ben and I are very pleased…

Some of you will know that Thames Valley Police (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire) have been supporters of The Crime Prevention Website since it was launched three years ago and regularly promote the Home Security Survey. I know this not only because of the contacts I have in the force, but…

Latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) showed that, for the offences it covers, there were an estimated 6.9 million incidents of crime against households and resident adults (aged 16 and over) in England and Wales. This is a 7% decrease compared with the previous year's…