PEOPLE can have the chance to quiz the police and crime commissioner on tackling antisocial behaviour, domestic abuse and gang crime. Those who want to ask questions to Roger Hirst, the new PCC for Essex, or Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, will have their opportunity to hear...
Criminal gangs are behind a high proportion of crime in the county, particularly in areas such as Clacton and Colchester, as London groups look to extend their operations or move out of a cramped and difficult environment in the capital. Essex Police has already stepped up...
Two bouncers who battered a man celebrating his 18th birthday unconscious and broke his friend's leg after kicking them out of a nightclub have been spared jail. Paul Dixon and Edward West initially denied attacking friends Tyrell Braithwaite and Ben Venables outside Chicago's in Moulsham Street,...
CALLS have been made for three teenagers involved in the fatal attack on Darren Kelly to be punished - despite being cleared of murder. Two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl walked free from court after a jury acquitted them of killing the lorry driver following...
09/05/2016 The new police and crime commissioner for Essex says the first thing he will look at is "modernisation and getting police out on patrol". Conservative Roger Hirst won the election with a total of 135,948 votes, once second-preference voting had been added, beating UKIP's Bob Spink. Three...
29/04/2016 THE election of a new police and crime commissioner for Essex will take place on Thursday, May 5. Tory Nick Alston, who was elected as the county's first commissioner in 2012, is not seeking re-election, and five candidates are in the running to succeed him. The role,...
TWO men suffered deep gashes to their arms and hands after a gang of yobs smashed their car windows with a crowbar when they witnessed a suspected burglary. A 21-year-old man, from Southend, was locking up an industrial unit in Stock Road, Southend, when he saw...
Police are looking for a man following an incident in Witham, where a woman had her car kicked and was sworn at. The woman, in her fifties, was parking her black Kia in Newland Street at about 3.20pm on Wednesday, January 27. An elderly man shouted and...
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