The Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables for Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police have today reached a symbolic milestone around how they will deliver policing services across the three counties in the future.
An agreement has been reached for a large-scale strategic alliance between the two forces. Their aim, through the alliance, is to maintain a high standard...
Devon and Cornwall Police is holding a two week amnesty for the surrender of unlawfully held or unwanted firearms and ammunition.
Members of the public can hand in items at police stations in Exeter (Heavitree Road), Torquay, Plymouth (Charles Cross and Crownhill), Barnstaple, Bodmin, Camborne, St Austell and Truro between 3 and 17 November.
Devon and Cornwall Police have been criticised in a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.
The report, ‘Core Business: an inspection into crime prevention, police attendance and the use of police time’, examines all 43 police forces in England and Wales.
It looks at three principal aspects of day-to-day policing: the prevention of crime; how crime is investigated...
Plymouth’s campaign to encourage people to think before they ink has got off to a flying start - equipment has already been seized from two properties.
Yesterday (Tuesday) the Council’s Public Protection team accompanied by police officers seized equipment from a house in Efford. The haul included needles, ink, tattoo machinery, tattoo stencils from someone who was doing tattoos in...
Devon and Cornwall Police have reiterated their warning to football fans to have fun, but drink responsibly during this summer’s FIFA World Cup.
During previous football tournaments incidents of alcohol-related violence, including domestic abuse, have increased – particularly following England games.
Alcohol plays a significant factor in these incidents and people may be...
Police in Plymouth are seeking a man who entered flats in Hanover Court, on the Barbican in Plymouth and appeared to target an elderly lady during a distraction type burglary.
The man entered the flats between 8.30pm and 9.30pm on Friday 15th November 2013 through a communal door. He then knocked on the victim’s door and invited himself in for a drink, persistently telling the occupant...
A Plymouth woman based in the Barbican area who reported a burglar had taken a picture of himself on her phone has said that she knows the man in the photo.
The woman found a picture on her mobile of an unknown man in her home prompting her to believe that a burglar had left a chilling calling card.
However in what the police have called a “genuine lapse in memory” the unnamed...
Plymouth City Council is teaming up with Devon and Cornwall Police, its highways contractor Amey and Radio Plymouth to remind pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists to brighten up, now that British Summer Time is over.
The clocks have gone back, the days are getting shorter and winter weather is starting to set in – which means road users are becoming less visible to motorists....
