Stephen Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock, welcomes today’s announcement from Essex Police of 150 new officers across the county– representing the single most significant local investment in deployable policing in a decade. 150 new visible officers have been confirmed today by...
Basildon Council is celebrating a decade of helping to reduce crime and disorder in the borough as part of the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme. The scheme allows Chief Constables to grant staff or organisations with powers to tackle issues affecting communities such as graffiti, litter, abandoned...
The noise and public nuisance of illegal car cruising has been blighting the lives of Thurrock residents for over a decade. Barriers were installed at the Dumb-bell roundabout some years ago, but the activity continued. In 2015, the Police implemented a Public Space Protection order...
Childline fears that victims are suffering in silence as hundreds of hate crimes committed against children in Essex. Today Childline is launching its new Understand Me campaign amid fears children are suffering in silence from physical bullying, verbal abuse, cyberbullying and racist name calling because of...
Easter season is coming to Lee Valley Regional Park, along with a great selection of activities to keep families engaged this school break. Whether it’s feeding the new-borns at Lee Valley Park Farms, competing in the FootGolf Open at Lee Valley Golf Course or learning...
2018's London Power 100 list has been released, power-players including A-list celebrities, billionaires, politcians and even members of the Royal family made the list. Whilst Queen Elizabeth II was named the most powerful person in London, the Top 10 of the list included media tycoon Rupert...
The number of child sex offences recorded by Essex Police rose to 1,531 last year the NSPCC reveals today. The number of offences recorded in 2016/17 increased from 1,449 offences recorded the previous year. New figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request to police across the...
Basildon Council has been working closely with the police and Essex Countywide Traveller Unit (ECTU) following a number of unauthorised traveller encampments in the borough since the weekend. Travellers who formed an unauthorised encampment at Hannakins Farm Community Centre last week moved on to Radford Crescent car...
Two Braintree and Uttlesford PCSOs have been praised by paramedics after they responded to an abandoned 999 call in Braintree and found a man in his 80s suffering from a potential stroke. Emergency services received a 999 call on January 27 where a man requested an...
Today (Monday 29 January) marks the start of two weeks of action in Basildon, Epping and Braintree to raise awareness of the vulnerability of young people to exploitation and abuse at stations and transport networks in parts of Essex. Under the banner of Operation Henderson,...
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