After three years of hard work on the iconic moors of south-west England, Butterfly Conservation’s ambitious All the Moor Butterflies project has finished. The project has improved the fortunes of some of south-west England’s rarest butterfly species by working with landowners and farmers, whilst also offering a breadth of opportunities for new and existing audiences to get involved with...
The ground breaking Youth Sport Trust Girls Active programme got underway in Cornwall on 2 October to help more girls across Devon and Cornwall to get involved in PE and sport.
Girls Active looks to tackle issues of lower participation, poor body image and a lack of understanding of the benefits of physical activity amongst girls. It does this by offering a simple and flexible...
The Devon and Cornwall and Dorset force areas have announced that a joint project team will be created to explore how they can collaborate effectively across all areas of policing.
This announcement marks the start of a long process which will consider a number of factors, including how policing services can be maintained to a high standard for the communities within both force areas...
Devon and Cornwall Police are launching their ‘Local Heroes’ initiative throughout schools in the region, on Wednesday 18 September. The initiative, run in association with Young Devon, aims to educate young people about diversity and bullying, while promoting values of tolerance, honesty, fairness and respect.
The high profile, sporting heroes supporting this initiative are:...
Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Hogg discusses the challenges that the summer season brings to policing in the region and highlights his campaign against 'legal highs'
The summer holiday is in full swing and as the sun seems to have accepted the key role it has to play in proceedings this year, the annual migration to the south west of eight million...
Today (Wednesday 3 July), Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire Police join the National Police Air Service (NPAS). This is the fourth phase of implementation since the launch of NPAS on 1st October 2012. The remaining police forces in England and Wales will join NPAS by January 2015.
The focus of NPAS is to deliver a more cost effective service, balancing...
Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Tony Hogg has given a robust response to an article in The Daily Mail that criticises the police chief's expenses claims for accommodation.
In a statement on the PCC's website , Mr Hogg confirms the Mail's central allegation that he has been awarded £650 per month towards accommodation when staying away from his West Cornwall...
The performance of Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and the Devon and Cornwall force is scrutinised in the first of a series of publicly viewable one-to-one meetings with Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Tony Hogg.
The PCC holds the Chief Constable to account for the delivery of the Police and Crime Plan. The PCC's office says that the correct mechanism to achieve this in a structured,...
A record number of children have been safeguarded from sexual abusers in the past year, figures from the UK’s leading child protection agency reveal today.
In 2012/2013, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre safeguarded and protected 790 children – an increase of 85 per cent on the previous year, and the highest yearly figure since the Centre launched in 2006. It...
