The ACPO Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (AVCIS) is holding a Day of Action today (10 March 2015) to highlight the importance of reducing crime around freight and cargo vehicles. The aim is to raise awareness of multi-million pound freight crime that is prevalent across the UK and encourage…

With International Woman's Day fast approaching (8 March) I was pleased to receive the following press release from Cumbria Constabulary, which highlights the dreadful problem of ‘honour' based violence Here it is in full.... Honour based violence is a collection of practices, which are…

Soon I'm off to Watergate Bay in Cornwall to dodge the raindrops for a few days. I've been visiting the place since I was about 16 years old. Back then I was living in my home town of Exeter, so it was a doddle to get down there. Nowadays, the journey from London takes some five hours or so (I…

Thanks to Hertfordshire Police for bringing my attention to the following:

In May 2013 English Heritage published a crime prevention guide entitled ‘Heritage Crime…

As my regular visitors will know I now regularly publish a list of the top ten counties whose residents have completed the most Home Security Surveys. So far this quarter (January to March) this is how things stand: London Berkshire Buckinghamshire Essex West Yorkshire West…

Some of you may have noticed that I've been posting up fewer news stories recently and I'm late with my newsletter. I'm sorry about this, but I've been tied up with several security consultancy jobs that have come in recently. I guess it must be something to do with it being a new year with…