On the 20 January, officers from both Avon & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall Police along with staff from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards, Environmental Health and the National Wildlife Crime Unit visited nine premises in the Barnstaple area as part of a wildlife crime operation.
This activity follows a two and a half year investigation and intelligence gathering by both...
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner is ring fencing up to £250,000 for the Chief Constable to make immediate improvements to the 101 non emergency phone line.
The commitment comes as Tony Hogg publishes phase two of his office’s ongoing review into the 101 service, a report which also assesses the force’s progress against the initial findings from a year ago.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious traffic collision in Plymouth following the death of an 87-year-old woman.
Emergency services were called to Notte Street at 11.20am on Wednesday 6 January following the collision between a mobility scooter and a grey Seat Toledo.
The elderly Plymouth woman on the mobility scooter sustained serious injuries and was taken to...
At 5.45pm on Friday 1st January 2016 a report was received by police of a single vehicle road traffic collision on the A38 at Dean Prior, near Buckfastleigh.
Police Fire and Ambulance attended the scene where it was established that a Green coloured BMW 323i motorcar travelling towards Plymouth had left the carriageway and struck a tree.
Police are appealing for witnesses following a shocking attack that left a man requiring 60 stitches to his forehead.
Neil Rogers, aged 47, was outside of the Cider Press in Plymouth Barbican between 9.45-10pm on Friday 18th December when he was head butted by an unknown offender without provocation.
This attack caused Mr Rogers to fall directly onto a glass set of railings,...
Police are appealing for witnesses following a collision that left two men hospitalised.
Police were called just after 2pm on Sunday 27th December after a collision between a blue Ford Focus RS and a green Ford Fiesta Flight on the B3416, Plymouth Road, Plympton, Plymouth near to the junction with St Mary’s Close.
The 21-year-old male driver of the Focus was taken to Derriford...
A 53-year-old man has died following a fire at a residential property in Bere Alston, Yelverton.
Fire and Police received a call at around 7am on Boxing Day (26th December) following a call from a member of the public.
Fire attended and ambulance took a 53-year old man to Derriford Hospital where he was declared deceased. The man’s next of kin have been informed. There was no-...
Devon and Cornwall Police is asking everyone this festive season, and throughout the coming year, to think carefully before calling 999 or 101 and to only do so in an emergency or to report a non-urgent crime.
The Force’s two contact centres in Plymouth and Exeter receive more than a million calls a year. Although many people use the service responsibly there are still a significant...
Police in Plymouth are appealing for witnesses following a serious injury road traffic collision.
At 9.35am on Wednesday 23 December a serious injury road traffic collision occurred on the five lane stretch of the carriageway in Morgan Road next to the park and ride, in Estover, Plymouth.
Involved in the collision were a red and white motorcycle and a 69 year old pedestrian....
