Police are appealing for the public’s assistance following a series of burglaries and other suspicious incidents in the Roundswell and Newport areas of Barnstaple in the early hours of 16 January. At around 2:25am on Chichester Road, Barnstaple, access wa...
Release date: 16/01/2025
Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in Barton Hill Road, Torquay. On Monday 13 January 2025 at 3.15pm a single vehicle collided with a teenage boy, causing injury to his foot. The driver briefly stopped before leaving the...
Release date: 16/01/2025
A 44-year-old man from Newton Abbot has been jailed after admitting setting up cameras to watch young boys in private and school settings. David Yilma appeared at Exeter Crown Court on 16 January where the judge sentenced him to 38 months in prison. Yilma...
Release date: 16/01/2025
Devon & Cornwall Police has significantly improved the speed at which the Force answers 999 calls and 101 contact. The rapid improvement of services within the Force’s control room placed Devon & Cornwall Police as ninth fastest to respond to emer...
Release date: 15/01/2025
In 2024, police reinvested money seized from criminal activity back into the communities of Teignbridge, Torbay and South Hams to support the work of good causes. A total of £22,000 was given to various charities, groups and projects from Devon & Corn...
Release date: 14/01/2025
A man has been jailed for 12 years plus a further six years to be served on extended licence after admitting a number of non-recent sexual offences committed against children. Craig Short, 53, of Woodland Mews, Paignton, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Cour...
Release date: 14/01/2025
Primary school students in Bovey Tracey have produced some creative posters to support the police’s work to tackle hate crime across communities. The local police team worked with the year 6 students, aged 10-11, from Bovey Tracey Academy to teach them ab...
Release date: 14/01/2025
Police have charged a man in connection to a road traffic collision at Altarnun, near Launceston involving a van and horse on Sunday 12 January. The rider of the horse, an eight-year-old child, was airlifted to hospital but has since been discharged as he...
Release date: 14/01/2025
Police investigating a two-vehicle road traffic collision in Paignton on Saturday 11 January are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Officers were called to reports of a collision involving a black Triumph TT 600 motorcycle and a white Volkswagen...
Release date: 13/01/2025
A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and other sexual offences committed in Plymouth. He has been deemed a danger to the public and as a result was also given an extended four-year licence period, an indefinite sexual harm prevention or...
Release date: 10/01/2025
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