The Police and Crime Commissioner says, "when incidents on social media receive not one but two visits from police officers, but burglaries and non-domestic break-ins don’t always get a police response, something is wrong"
Police issue an appeal after four bicycles were stolen from properties in Brighstone. Have you been offered or seen any of the bikes in the photographs?
Drug related violence on the Isle of Wight has risen by 2,367 per cent, with 101 recorded incidents — up from just three incidents the previous year. OnTheWight has details of latest crime statistics.
It is the Commissioner’s statutory role to hold the Chief Constable to account on the performance of the police force on behalf of the public, and the COMPASS meetings provide an opportunity to do this on a regular basis.
Police say that poachers aren’t the old fashioned ‘one for the pot’ characters seen in fiction. They are nearly always associated with other criminality, including rural burglaries, thefts and damage to property.
Reinforcing the protection we give to vulnerable residents from doorstep crime was the focus during a week of police action (11 to 15 April 2016) across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.