The success of hotspot policing over the summer has resulted in additional police patrols for Exmouth town centre. Hotspot policing is a data-driven method of patrolling to tackle antisocial behaviour (ASB) and serious violence. Crime data was analysed to...
Release date: 12/11/2024
Police are appealing for witnesses following a collision in Totnes. Emergency services were called to Westonfields in Totnes at around 12.20pm on Sunday 10 November to reports of a collision involving a silver Mercedes and a silver Volkswagen Golf. A woma...
Release date: 11/11/2024
Officers investigating a sexual assault in North Devon have released an e-fit of a man they wish to identify in connection with the incident. The offence took place in Ilfracombe, on Station Road near the junction of Richmond Road, at around 11:20pm on Sa...
Release date: 11/11/2024
Police are appealing for witnesses and information following a serious road traffic collision in Torquay on Sunday 10 November. Emergency services were called at around 12.55pm to the A379 Teignmouth Road where it was reported that a red Nissan Note had l...
Release date: 11/11/2024
Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal traffic collision in Torquay. We were called at around 4.05pm on Friday 1 November following reports of a collision involving a black Hyundai Getz, a silver Honda Jazz and a pedestrian on the forecourt ...
Release date: 08/11/2024
Police investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the A30 are asking witnesses to come forward. Officers were called at around 8.25am on Thursday 7 November following reports of a two-vehicle collision at the A30 Plusha junction near Launceston. Offi...
Release date: 07/11/2024
A 58-year-old man has been jailed for the sexual abuse of a young girl. Lawrence Pipe, from the Bideford area, appeared at Exeter Crown Court for sentence recently having been convicted by a jury of two indecent assaults of a child under 13, as well as a ...
Release date: 07/11/2024
Police are appealing for information following a report of vandalism in Bideford. Torridge District Council contacted police at around 11am on 5 November, reporting that masonry paint was poured down the slide and thrown at other playground equipment at V...
Release date: 06/11/2024
Police investigating a report of burglary at a property on Macauley Crescent, Plymouth on Monday 4 November are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Three young men were seen in the street trying doors to houses and cars, before forcing entry to a...
Release date: 06/11/2024
A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl in South Devon. Carl Alexander Forrester, 70, whose last known address was a boat on the Thames in Oxford, appeared at Exeter Crown Court on 4 November. Officers a...
Release date: 06/11/2024
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