policing

Summer policing operation starts and brings extra patrols

Devon & Cornwall Police’s summer policing operation starts at the weekend and brings extra patrols to villages, towns, resorts, beaches and open spaces in Cornwall.

Police will undertake extra foot, bike and e-bike patrols to protect the UK’s most popular tourism destination’s community and visitors during the summer period.

An additional 800 hours’ worth of policing...

PCC and chief constable meet MPs

A fairer share of central government funding, the cost of alcohol related crime and mental health provision were on the agenda when Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg and Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer met south west members of Parliament at Westminster on Tuesday (10 December).

A cross party group of eight of the regions MPs joined Mr Hogg and Mr Sawyer to look at the issues they...

Devon and Cornwall's police chiefs call for MPs to back a better deal for the region

Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and Chief Constable have written to all of Devon and Cornwall's MPs as the Chancellor George Osborne sets out his plans for further departmental spending cuts today.

In a letter released publicly, PCC Tony Hogg and Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer call for local MPs - including Plymouth's Oliver Colvile (Plymouth Sutton and Devonport...