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Local businesses join forces with Police in personal property protection initiative

In 2013 Plympton Neighbourhood Policing team, of Devon and Cornwall Police, secured funding from the Little Acorns Project, for the purchase of purse bells, an anti theft device to protect property from being stolen or tampered with.

The purse bells, which clip onto a purse, wallet or bag, have proven to be a successful deterrent against thieves, and have also previously been used by...

Woman in her 60s robbed outside Plympton Library

A woman in her 60s was robbed of her purse outside Plympton Library yesterday.

Detectives are keen to hear from any witnesses to the street robbery that took place on the Ridgeway in Plympton yesterday – Wednesday 24 April – at around 5.10pm.

The woman was near to the entrance of Plympton library when a young man approached her, pushed her, then grabbed the purse that she was...