Exeter’s Community Safety Team have been granted limited policing powers through the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS). Introduced last year through collective investment by Exeter City Council and InExeter, the team are supported by additional...
Release date: 04/03/2025
Devon & Cornwall Police have successfully arrested and charged an individual from Dawlish for 14 shoplifting offences and an assault on a police officer, securing a twenty-four week prison sentence. Ross Norman, aged 32, of Carlton Terrace (Dawlish) w...
Release date: 24/02/2025
A warm welcome to Inspector Mat Helm who recently joined the police team at Exmouth Sector and is already a familiar face to many in the area. He began his new role three weeks ago but previously spent much of his police career working in Exm...
Release date: 21/02/2025
Devon & Cornwall Police recently worked alongside British Transport Police (BTP) in a bid to target individuals using rail networks to transport drugs. The operation took place in Torquay and involved a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes pol...
Release date: 20/02/2025
A push to make roads safer in Plymouth has led to multiple arrests, drug seizures and cautions. An operation on Wednesday 12 February, involved police officers setting up vehicle stop-check points in the Stonehouse area. There were two aims of the operati...
Release date: 19/02/2025
Special Constables from Devon and Cornwall Police Roads Policing Team have launched an operation to crack down on the illegal use of electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs/E-bikes). Operation Forerunner comes in response to significant concerns from re...
Release date: 19/02/2025
£7,500 worth of suspected illegal tobacco, cigarettes and vapes were seized from a shop in Newton Abbot as part of a joint operation with Trading Standards and Devon & Cornwall Police. The operation hauled in illicit tobacco products, including a tota...
Release date: 19/02/2025
Closure orders have been granted on two properties in Kingsteignton following reports of ongoing nuisance behaviour which was causing concerns within the local community. Police received reports from the public in relation to suspected drug misuse at the ...
Release date: 17/02/2025
In response to feedback captured in a local police survey, extra police officers will be deployed to Torquay town centre for the next four-weeks to deter offenders and keep people safe. Police Inspector Ben Shardlow said: “The extra officers will enable u...
Release date: 13/02/2025
Police Cadets recently joined officers to support with a plain clothes operation testing the sale of vapes and tobacco to people under the age of 18 in South Devon. The cadets, who were in plain clothes, visited a total of 13 shops across Newton Abbot and...
Release date: 12/02/2025
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