Neighbourhood Watch have made us aware that fraudsters are exploiting the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus to facilitate various types of fraud and cyber crime. Since February 2020, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has identified 21 reports of fraud where coronavirus was mentioned, with victim losses totalling over £800k. Ten of these reports were made […]
Highways England has teamed up with police forces from all around Britain’s most iconic motorway in a new bid to improve safety. Using specially adapted, unmarked HGV cabs, officers will patrol the M25 and record drivers of all types of vehicles committing mobile phone or other safety offences that are the leading cause of many […]
The Dacorum Community Safety Partnership (CSP) has appointed a new Chief Inspector, Craig Flint, who began his new role on Monday 9 March. Craig takes the helm in place of the borough’s former Chief Inspector Paul Mitson, who is moving to the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Unit based at the force headquarters in Welwyn […]
Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Road Policing Unit is reminding the public not to use their mobile phones while driving or face a minimum £200 fine and six points on their licence. The warning comes as the NPCC launches its mobile phone campaign this month, which will see officers targeting motorists using handheld devices while behind the wheel. […]
Business owner and managing director Trudi Scrivener celebrated winning at the annual SME (small medium enterprise) Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire Business Awards recently. She won Business Woman of the Year in a hotly contested category. The annual awards celebrate local businesses within Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire. Over 300 business people attended an extraordinary evening on […]
At approximately 1.30pm following calls from members of the public today 13 March 2020 reporting Rogue Traders attempting to remove moss from the roof of a property on Christchurch Road and clean a driveway of a property on Windmill Way, Tring, both without permission, two males were arrested for Rogue Trading offences and are currently […]
Neighbourhood Watch have shared some useful information about Coronavirus COVID-19: There are a number of confirmed Coronavirus cases who are residents of Hertfordshire and, sadly, earlier this week an elderly patient with underlying conditions died. Public Health England (PHE) is working closely with NHS colleagues and Hertfordshire County Council to manage the situation and help […]
A group of young people from Hertfordshire have just completed a once in a lifetime musical project with one of the UK’s most respected urban musicians. The seven-week project was run as a pilot by Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Gangs and Schools team with YC Hertfordshire Services for Young People, who teamed up with Quinton Green, a […]
Operations manager Rob Bligh plays a key role in Network Rail’s response to flooding disruption in the opening episode of a new ITV series airing this week. This is one of the plot lines covered by ITV who were granted unprecedented access to Network Rail’s control centres between Birmingham New Street and London Euston for […]
Police are appealing to the public for their help in locating a wanted man. Andrew Prothero, aged 28, whose last known address is in Hemel Hempstead, is wanted in connection with an assault. Anyone who sees him, or has any information about his whereabouts, is asked to contact Hertfordshire Constabulary via 101 or report information […]
Rennie Grove Hospice Care, the local charity that provides specialist care for adults and children with a life-limiting illness, has been given a novel boost by having a sausage named after it. And that’s not all. The Rennie Grove sausage is also raising funds for the charity with £1 from each 1lb sold being donated […]
Gaze at a sealed 2,400-year-old wooden cat coffin Discover why an unwrapped mummified crocodile with stones in its abdomen is so unusual Discover a handprint on a terracotta jar that contained a mummified bird of prey This spring visitors to The Natural History Museum at Tring will be able to visit a new free temporary […]